Everprivate Grief in Public Space: Roadside Memorials in the Czech Republic

Roadside memorials provide a relatively new, personalised expression of grief that expands private mourning into the public domain. Czech roadside memorials generally take the form of permanent constructions to remind travellers of both the accident and the deceased; most often young men. Almost all of the one hundred memorials in the research sample featured flowers and candles; two-thirds of the sample featured the symbol of the cross.