TY - JOUR AU - Isla Whateley PY - 2018/06/20 Y2 - 2019/09/18 TI - The Abandoned Lighthouse JF - re:think - a journal of creative ethnography JA - rethink VL - 1 IS - 1 SE - Academic Essays DO - UR - http://journals.ed.ac.uk/rethink/article/view/2650 AB - Summary: Ruins can play a particularly poignant role in modern capitalist society, and exist in a liminal, marginal state between the past and the future. Western Harbour Lighthouse in Leith, Edinburgh is an example of this kind of ruin, separated from the rest of the city by a physical and metaphorical boundary. Ruins also have affective presence, inciting a particular feeling in those who enter. This essay explores how the liminal status of the Lighthouse disrupts the usual ‘order’ of the modern city. ER -