中文摘要：

死亡景观是当前西方社会文化地理学研究的一个重要领域。1990年代以来,在全球对人口老龄化及终极关怀关注持续升温的背景下,以死亡为主题的研究成果大量涌现。本文在对西方地理学者关于死亡研究回顾的基础上,对死亡景观这一核心概念进行了辨析,梳理当前文化地理视角下死亡景观研究的三大主题：神圣性构建与世俗化响应、传统文化与现代性冲突与协商以及情感空间的建构。研究发现国外学者倾向于将死亡景观放置在广阔的社会经济与文化网络中进行分析,并与现代性、文化身份、情感体验与日常生活实践等视角相结合,促进了文化地理视角下死亡景观研究的蓬勃发展。期冀本研究回顾对国内的死亡景观研究提供了新的理论视角与实践层面的思考。

英文摘要：

The deathscapes is a new field in the research of social and cultural geography in the West. A large number of researches in the theme of death have emerged increasingly since 1990 s, the deathscapes research about space and place also draws attention from the ＂spatial turn＂ and ＂cultural turn＂ in sociology and anthropology. This paper is based on the review on relevant researches of the deathscapes in western（mainly Europe and the United States, Australia, Singapore） social and cultural geography. We attempt to examine the ways in which deathscapes become important bearers of meanings and identities, but also centres of contestation and conflicts. Firstly, we discuss concerned concepts of deathscapes, which focuses on the relationship between space/place and death, mediated through multiple spaces-the body, the site of death, the home, the hospital, the hospice, the mortuary, the cemetery, the crematorium, the memorial, the sites germane to the identity formation of the decreased, and even the virtual spaces of the cyberworld. Central to this line of literature is the argument that landscapes become important mediators between death, meanings and identities.Secondly, from the perspective of space and time in the related studies we discuss the research content, methodology, research area and progress in three groups of concepts： 1Sacred and secular. 2Tradition and modernity. 3Memory and rebirth.