Routledge International Handbook of Queer Death Studies

Nina Lykke, Dr Phil, Emerita-Professor, Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden, and Honorary Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark, poet, fiction writer, and co- founder of Queer Death Studies Network. Current research focus: death, mourning, continuing bonds with the dead, and cancer ecologies in posthuman, queerfemme-inist, new-materialist, decolonial, eco-critical, and spiritual-material perspectives. A recent monograph is Vibrant Death. A Posthuman Phenomenology of Mourning (2022).Tara Mehrabi, PhD, senior lecturer, Gender Studies, Karlstad University, Sweden, and co-founder of Queer Death Studies Network. Her research focus is death, mourning, ageing and digitalisation of care through the lens of feminist technoscience studies, intersectionality, posthumanities, and digital humanities. She is co-editor of the edited volume New Materialism and Intersectionality (2024), and has published in journals such as Australian Feminist Studies, NORA, and Women, Gender & Research.Marietta Radomska, PhD, Docent, is Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities at Linköping University, Sweden; director of The Eco- and Bioart Lab; co- founder of Queer Death Studies Network. She works at the intersection of environmental humanities, continental philosophy, queer death studies, visual culture, contemporary art, and artistic research; and has published in Australian Feminist Studies, Somatechnics, and Environment and Planning E, among others.

• 1. Queer Death Studies: In Times of Anthropocene Necropolitics and the Search for New Ethico-Political ImaginationsPART I. Rethinking Life/Death Ecologies and TemporalitiesIntroduction2. Extinction and the Deep Time of Death3. Deterritorialising Death: Queerfeminist Biophilosophy and Ecologies of the Non/Living in Contemporary Art 4. Life/Death Ecologies and Temporalities of Bioart: A Conversation5. Queer Ecologies of Death in the Lab: Rethinking Waste, Decomposition and Death through a Queerfeminist Lens6. Dis(re)membering Death in Eco-horror Forests7. The Time of Hybrid Corals: Laboratory Experiments in Extinction and Survival8. Extinction Companion Species: Bare Death, Response-(in)ability, and Human/Non-human Dis/connections9. Posthuman Genetic Legacies: Queering Fertility and (Im)mortality through Biological Arts Practice PART II. Anthropocene Necropolitics and ExtinctionIntroduction10. The Necropolitics of Care: And How to Dismantle the Master’s House11. Killable Bodies and Necro-Value in Times of COVID: An Ethnography of Death in Iran Through a Feminist-Queer Lens12. Metamorphic Necropolitics: Deadly Othering in European East–West Power Relations13. Affective Necropolitics: The Promise of Protection and its Deadly Ends14. ‘A Gentle Touch’: Imaginaries for Killing Fish Humanely on Social Media15. Making Death on a Molecular Scale: Transgenic Mosquitoes, More-Than-Human Biopolitics, and the Emergence of Necrovalue16. The Making and Burning of Borders: On Historicity, Storytelling, and Forensic Methods – A Conversation 17. Ecocide, Ecological Grief, and the Power of Telling Stories – A Conversation18. Alt-right Memes and Microspectropolitics: Posthumanising and Queering Schild & Vrienden’s Memetic Activism19. Against Abstractions: On Geo-Politics, Humanness, Virus, and Death20. Frames of Palestinian Childhood and the End of ManPART III. Caring Death ActivismIntroduction21. Death Activism and the Living World22. Queer Ecologies of Death at my Desk: Sinking into the Toxic Legacy of Artistic and Academic PracticeMargherita Pevere23. Dying All the Time: Violent Ecologies at the End of Life24. Saving Queer and Trans People from ‘Bad’ Deaths: Suicide Prevention as ‘Cruel Optimism’ in Suicidist Contexts25. A Beautiful Passing: The Story of my Mother’s Euthanasia26. A Good Day to Die? On Assisted Suicide and Vibrant Dying27. ‘A Life Cut Short’: US-American Death Doulas, Life Expectancy, and Queering the FuturePART IV. Aesthetics and Mediated Imaginaries of DeathIntroduction28. For a Queer Topography of Female Necrophilia: The Neon-Gothic Aesthetics 29. The Trans-Death Continuum 30. Queerness, Contagion, Noise: The Death of the (Sexual-Sonic) Subject Constitutes a Queer Noise Moment31. Queering Death, Desire, and Intimacy: The Cinematic Ecology in Lou Ye’s Spring Fever 32. Affective Mapping of David Wojnarowicz’s Selected Works 33. Necro-Art: Material (After)Life34. The Ambivalence of Exposure: Splicing Time in Tom Bianchi’s Fire Island Pines Polaroids35. Queer Complicity, Queer Instauration, and Digital (Im)mortality, or: How to Think About Mourning and Our Cyberselves 36. Queering the Transhumanist Imaginaries of Life after Death: A Deconstructionist Approach to Cryonics and Mind-Uploading PART V. Politics and Ethics of Grieving Practices and RemembranceIntroduction37. Between Silence and Silencing, Stories Are Told: Documentary Narratives on Queer Elders and the Re-Writing of HistoryGustavo Haiden de Lacerda, and Geniane Diamante Ferreira38. Living with the Dead: Grief Politics and Discourses on Nationalism and Modernity in GeorgiaMariam Shalvashvili39. Gender Affirming or Disenfranchised Grief? Considering Death Rights in Aotearoa New ZealandGareth Schott, Benjamin Doyle, and Wairehu Grant40. Remaking Death at the Beginning of Life: Living with Technological Decisions41. From the Baquiné to the Streets: Performances of Grief42. Caring to Keep One’s Impressions Alive43. Beyond Transgression: Sexuality, Death and the ‘Human’ in a Post-Shoah Memorial44. Queer Grief: From a Public Feeling to Private Grieving45. Permeable Membranes and Prosthetic Fluids: Narrating my Father’s DeathPART VI. Co-Becoming with the Dead and Spectral MourningIntroduction46. The Bedana and the Wanderer47. Obuntu Bulamu: A Decolonial African Feminist Reconceptualisation of Death and Mourning48. Griefly Related: Continuing Friendship After Death49. Being, Entangled, and Re‘turn’ed in Naja Marie Aidt’s When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl’s Book50. Betty (or Libby), Kitty, and Cookie: The (De)Queering of Elizabeth Short, Catherine Genovese, and Sylvia Likens51. Archival Activism and Necropolitics in the You Tube Series Queer Ghost Hunters52. Dust, Documentation, and The Book of the Dead53. Posthuman Touch and Mourning within the Realm of the Performative: Narratives of Queer, More-than-Human, and Revolutionary Ghosts54. The Haunting Return of the Mutant Zombie Mink: On Ghost Story Writing as Poetics, Ethics and Method55. Decolonising Mourning: World-Making with the Selk’nam People of Karokynka/Tierra del FuegoPART VII. Imagining Life/Death Entanglements DifferentlyIntroduction56. Re/orienting to Death57. Eurydice in the Underworld58. Queer Reading, Queer Dying59. Decomposing Wood: Instructions for Survival in the Scraps of Ruin and Collapse60. mythographies of decomposition61. Death and Distributed Minds: Creative Speculations on Extended Spider Cognition62. Passing Strange: The Queer Dimensions of Pandemic Death63. What If Every Critter’s Death Was Vibrant? Figuring Ethics Between Ecologies of Gifting and Extinction