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D. Peterson / Lemos Dekker / R. Olson

Death's Social and Material Meaning beyond the Human

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-5292-3014-7
Verlag: Bristol University Press
Erscheinungstermin: 09.01.2024
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Death studies typically focus on the death of humans, overlooking the wider factors involved in social and natural processes around death. This edited volume provides an alternative focus for death studies by looking beyond human death, to reveal the complex interconnections among human and more than human creatures, entities and environments.

Bringing together a diverse range of international scholars, the book sheds light on topics which have previously remained at the margins of contemporary death studies and death care cultures. Organised around three themes – Knowledge and Mediation, Care and Remembrance, and Agency and Power – this book pushes the boundaries of death studies to explore death and dying from beyond the perspective of a nature/culture binary.

Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781529230147
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-5292-3014-7
  • Verlag: Bristol University Press
  • Erscheinungstermin: 09.01.2024
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2024
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 472 g
  • Seiten: 210
  • Format (B x H x T): 241 x 161 x 18 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

Autoren/Hrsg.

Herausgeber

D. Peterson, Jesse

Jesse D. Peterson is Lecturer and Assistant Professor with the Radical Humanities Laboratory at University College Cork.

Lemos Dekker, Natashe

Natashe Lemos Dekker is a postdoctoral researcher at the Leiden Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology.

R. Olson, Philip

Philip R. Olson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society at Virginia Tech.

Introduction - Jesse D. Peterson, Natashe Lemos Dekker, Philip R. Olson

Part I: Ontologies & Epistemologies

1. ‘Seeing for real’: Forensic Pathologists Testing the Demonstrative Power of Postmortem Imaging - Céline Schnegg, Séverine Rey, Alejandro Dominguez

2. Death at a Planetary Scale: Mortality’s Materiality in the Context of the Anthropocene - Philip R. Olson

3. Death in the Fields: Microbial ‘Destruction’ in Polluted Soils - Serena Zanzu

4. Can the Baltic Sea Die? An Environmental Imaginary of a Dying Sea - Jesse D. Peterson

Part II: Care & Remembrance

5. Viral Flows and Immunological Gestures: Contagious and Dead Bodies in México and Ecuador during COVID-19 - Rosa Inés Padilla Yépez, Anne W. Johnson

6. Advertising the Ancestors: Ghanaian Funeral Banners as Image Objects - Isabel Bredenbroker

7. Dying Apart and Buried Together: COVID-19, Cemeteries, and Fears of Collective Burial - Samuel Holleran

8. Spirit Mediums at the Margins: Materiality, Death, and Dying in Northern Zimbaabwee - Olga Sicilia

Part III: Troubling Agencies

9. Rehabilitate or Euthanize?: Biopolitics and Care in Seal Conservation - Doortje Hoerst

10. Troubling Entanglements: Death, Loss and the Dead in and on Television - Bethan Michael-Fox

11. Material Entanglements of the Corpse - Marc Trabsky and Jacinthe Flore

12. The Dead Who Would be Trees and Mushrooms - Hannah Gould, Tamara Kohn, Michael Arnold, Allison Fraser

Concluding Discussion

13. Beyond the Norms - Jesse D. Peterson, Natashe Lemos Dekker, Philip R. Olson