Death Activism : Queer Death Studies and the Posthuman / Patricia MacCormack.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacCormack, Patricia, author.

Series:

Posthumanism in Practice.

Posthumanism in Practice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Attitude to Death.

Death--Psychological aspects.

Death.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2025.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

Traditional Western attitudes towards death deal with it as a painful inevitability, something that has to be navigated as a trauma and a taboo. They focus essentially on the management of death, an anthropocentric practice prioritising the human life above every other type of existence. Patricia MacCormack explores how we can develop a death activism a variety of tactics and posthuman practices which celebrate death, its inevitability, its forms, from the slow to times of crisis, and how trauma and mourning emerge as their own forms of expression. Crucial to the foundation of death activism is the dissymmetry with which different deaths are met including the mass death of nonhuman animals and ecologies. Death Activism is a feminist, queer, postcolonialist enquiry, that seeks to queer death making queer our usual familiar death habits and trajectories of thought, toward a jubilant activism that can transform death into a more democratically equal, and a more jubilant force for life.

Contents:

Acknowledgements Prelude Chapter 1: Danse Macabre: Queer Romances of Fascination and Fear Chapter 2: Global Mourning: Pandemic, Trauma and Mass Death Chapter 3: The Denial of Desire: Suicide and the Right to Death Chapter 4: Abolitionism: Mass Death and the Nonhuman Animal. Chapter 5: Capital Zombies, Death and Disability Chapter 6: The Unspeakable Death (that is not Death) Chapter 7: Goth Culture, Occulture, Aesthetic Death Culture Conclusion: The Difficult Joy of Death Activism References Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350376229

1350376221

9781350376212

1350376213

9781350376205

1350376205

OCLC:

1484381868