The sustainable dead : searching for the intolerable / edited by Ruth McManus.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McManus, Ruth, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death--Social aspects.

Death.

Funeral rites and ceremonies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 pages)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2023]

Summary:

While eco-lightbulbs, tiny homes and bans on single-use plastic bags nibble at the edges of our profligate ways, ecological and social sustainability is beginning to profoundly challenge long-standing death styles. This collection brings together new scholarship on multiple and innovative changes to managing the dead from around the world, including the USA, Poland, the Netherlands, Britain, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, to argue for a new perspective in theorising this shift to more sustainable death ways. This is a perspective that moves on from a top-down approach to social change, viewing the perceived gulf between cultural and space management as more a fabrication than a reality.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgements

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Bibliography

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: McManus, Ruth The Sustainable Dead

ISBN:

9781527590113