PROJECT   Haunting         PARTICIPANT   Catherine Greenblatt       LOCATION   Military Bases       REQUEST   Go to military bases and look for ghosts. Haunting is generically thought to be site-specific and therefore bound by a certain identity politics of location. For example, a haunted house is visited by a ghost whose presence forces a memory of what happened there, in that particular house, once upon a time. I suspect that the haunting of military bases, on the contrary, is the result of some very complicated global displacements, displacements that cut across tenuous national borders, borders made especially tenuous in this new kind of war that is being waged against terrorism. "The ghost is not simply a dead or missing person, but a social figure, and investigating it can lead to that dense site where history and subjectivity make social life." (Avery Gordon, Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination) If you can, investigate some particular ghosts and see where their displacements lead. Go to Fort Bragg and see if you can detect the ghost presence of the wives who had recently been murdered by their officer-husbands, who in turn had recently returned from military tour of Aghanistan just prior to the murders.