Public and Private Management of Grief

Caroline Pearce is a research associate within the School of Population Health and Environmental Sciences at King’s College London, UK

“A reading of The Public and Private Management of Grief: Recovering Normal pays off for those who are interested in the normalisation of emotions and want to learn more about the social containment of repressed and pathologised emotions. ... Especially for sociologists who deal with grief, mourning, and bereavement, this book should become a part of the required reading. And also for the practitioners in the area of grief recovery, a reading would be worthwhile … .” (Ekkehard Knopke, Emotions and Society, Vol. 1 (2), 2019)

• 1. Introduction: Recovering Normal.- 2. Grief as a Psychological Object of Study.- 3. Making Sense of Grief.- 4. Affective Practices: Managing Grief. - 5. Emotions, Bodies, Practices.- 6. Inhabiting and Resisting Identities. - 7. The Other Side of Recovery