Death's social and material meaning beyond the human / edited by Jesse D. Peterson, Natashe Lemos Dekker and Philip R. Olson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peterson, Jesse D., editor.

Lemos Dekker, Natashe, 1985- editor.

Olson, Philip R., editor.

Series:

Death and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death--Social aspects.

Death.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 192 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : Bristol University Press, 2024.

Summary:

This book provides an alternative focus for death studies by looking beyond traditional perspectives of a nature/culture binary. Bringing together a range of international scholars, it sheds light on topics which have previously remained at the margins of contemporary death studies and death care cultures.

Contents:

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

Part I. Ontologies and epistemologies. 'Seeing for real': forensic pathologists testing the demonstrative power of postmortem imaging / Céline Schnegg, Séverine Rey and Alejandro Dominguez

Death at a plantetary scale: mortality's moral materiality in the context of the anthropocene / Philip R. Olson

Death in the fields: microbial 'destruction' in polluted soils / Serena Zanzu

Can the Baltic Sea die? An environmental imaginary of a dying sea / Jess D. Peterson

Part II. Care and rememberance. Viral flows and immunological gestures: contagious and dead bodies in Mexico and Ecuador during COVID-19 / Rosa Inés Padilla Yépez and Anne W. Johnson

Advertising the ancestors: Ghanaian funeral banners as image objects / Isabel Bredenbröker

Dying apart, buried together: COVID-19, cemeteries and fears of collective burial / Samuel Holleran

Spirit mediums at the margins: materiality, death and dying in northern Zimbabwe / Olga Sicilia

Part III. Troubling agencies. Rehabilitate or euthanize? Biopolitics and care in seal conservation / Doortje Hoerst

Troubling entanglements: death, loss and the dead in and on television / Bethan Michael-Fox

Material entanglements of the corpse / Marc Trabsky and Jacinthe Flore

The dead who would be trees and mushrooms / Hannah Gould, Tamara Kohn, Michael Arnold and Martin Gibbs

Beyond the norms / Jesse D. Peterson, Natashe Lemos Dekker and Philip R. Olson.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Dec 2024).

ISBN:

9781529230154

1529230152

9781529230161

1529230160

OCLC:

1409027720