Death's Social and Material Meaning beyond the Human

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 - Celine Schnegg, Severine 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 Mexico and Ecuador during COVID-19 - Rosa Ines Padilla Yepez, 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

Este título pertence ao(s) assunto(s) indicados(s). Para ver outros títulos clique no assunto desejado.

• Memória
• Morte e morrer: Sociologia
• Estudos interdisciplinares
• Ambiente
• Cultura material

Death and dying; Loss; More-than-human; Material culture; Social and ecological imaginary; Remembrance and memorialization