Haunted Houses

Kirsten Marie Raahauge conducts research into Haunted Houses, funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark, as part of the research project 'On the Limits of Reason', situated at the Department of Anthropology, the University of Copenhagen.

'On the Limits of Reason' studies what happens when people meet the limit of reason through 5 sub projects within a Danish context: clairvoyance (Vibeke Steffen), people who become seriously ill (Tine Tjørnhøj Thomsen), institutions that are evaluated (Steffen Jöhncke), people who hear voices (Sidsel Busch), and unexplainable sensations in people’s daily life (Kirsten Marie Raahauge). In her research project 'Haunted Houses', she investigates the agencies and imaginaries that emerge, when you experience something that is beyond your normal reasoning and that you categorize as ghosts or haunting, furthermore, she explores how these experiences are entangled with space and materiality (2007-).

About Kirsten Marie Raahauge
As an anthropologist, Kirsten Marie Raahauge explores spatial anthropologies, especially in relation to the interior, conducting fieldwork in homes and institutions, as well as in haunted houses.

She is concerned with the relationship between cultural imaginaries, social relations and space, a triangulation that also involves studies into and frictions between aesthetics, agency, the uncanny, hygge, specificity and ideas about the generic and about dark sides of design, as well as what can be seen only out of the corner of one’s eye.