{"id":2189,"date":"2020-10-23T16:24:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T16:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.cohds.com\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=2189"},"modified":"2021-01-26T16:20:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T16:20:26","slug":"the-body-and-the-bereaved-at-new-york-citys-potters-field","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/projects-item\/the-body-and-the-bereaved-at-new-york-citys-potters-field\/","title":{"rendered":"The body and the bereaved at New York City\u2019s potter\u2019s field"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-283cp-cebda35a0d43cead7e9adc1e944d3a2d\">\n.flex_column.av-283cp-cebda35a0d43cead7e9adc1e944d3a2d{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-283cp-cebda35a0d43cead7e9adc1e944d3a2d av_one_full  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kgmguthk-e665fa80d401810991d702911da1145a\">\n.avia-image-container.av-kgmguthk-e665fa80d401810991d702911da1145a img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-kgmguthk-e665fa80d401810991d702911da1145a .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-kgmguthk-e665fa80d401810991d702911da1145a av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-1  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" class='wp-image-2186 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-2186 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Leyal-Vural-resized-scaled.jpg\" alt='' title='Leyal Vural resized'  height=\"1707\" width=\"2560\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Leyal-Vural-resized-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Leyal-Vural-resized-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Leyal-Vural-resized-1030x687.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Leyal-Vural-resized-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Leyal-Vural-resized-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Leyal-Vural-resized-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Leyal-Vural-resized-1500x1000.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Leyal-Vural-resized-705x470.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-ywqd-a9da362356ea1ad51a43060e38200a18\">\n.flex_column.av-ywqd-a9da362356ea1ad51a43060e38200a18{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-ywqd-a9da362356ea1ad51a43060e38200a18 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_fourth  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-kbihb0gk-07050c37a1ba250adbf6da4798243ff4 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong><em>The body and the bereaved at New York City\u2019s potter\u2019s field<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by <strong>Leyal Vural\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Since 1869, New York City has been burying its poorest people on Hart Island, a hidden-in-plain-sight spot at the city\u2019s edge that is its potter\u2019s field or public graveyard. By now, that\u2019s about one million people, all buried in mass, unmarked graves and, until the COVID-19 pandemic, all buried by people incarcerated in the city\u2019s primary jail. The New York City Department of Correction operates Hart Island and treats it much like a jail, so that for most of its history, mourners could not visit the place where their loved ones lie.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">If you want to understand \u201cthe ridge and furrow of the social environment\u201d of a particular place, wrote historian Raphael Samuel, ask the people who navigate that place to tell you about it. This project considers Hart Island by doing just that: asking people who have family and friends buried on the island, activists who successfully pressed the city to open the first access to the island to mourners, and a man who worked on the burial detail to share their experiences of what the place means to them.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">My work interweaves excerpts from these oral history interviews about Hart Island <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">with ideas about the value we assign to people, the right we grant some to mourn, and the meaning we ascribe to places. The stories and insights people share put the way we treat the poorest among us, in death as in life, in stark relief. As Michel Foucault said, places, like Hart Island, that are physically separate from everywhere else (he called them heterotopias) can by the very rules and norms that govern them reflect society\u2019s dominant values right back at us \u2013 and geographical hierarchies are not ambiguous.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I have given talks about Hart Island and wrote about it for the public history<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/55c3d45ae4b0ae48388cb545\/t\/5dc3856483f5b42adb8d33ae\/1573143533072\/OralHistoryJournal_Autumn2019_Vural_PublicHistory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">article<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> in the autumn 2019 issue of the Oral History Society journal.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-283cp-cebda35a0d43cead7e9adc1e944d3a2d\">\n.flex_column.av-283cp-cebda35a0d43cead7e9adc1e944d3a2d{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-283cp-cebda35a0d43cead7e9adc1e944d3a2d av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":2186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[68],"class_list":["post-2189","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_entries-projets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/2189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2189"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/2189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7857,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/2189\/revisions\/7857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2189"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=2189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}