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Dissection Photography
Cadavers, Abjection, and the Formation of Identity
Inbunden, 2024
1262 kr
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Contemporary audiences are often shocked to learn that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, medical students around the world posed for photographic portraits with their cadavers; a genre known as dissection photography. Featuring previously unseen images, stories, and anecdotes, this book …
Death’s Social and Material Meaning beyond the Human
Av Jesse D. Peterson, Natashe Lemos Dekker m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1066 kr
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Death studies typically focus on the death of humans, overlooking the wider factors involved in social and natural processes around death. This edited volume provides an alternative focus for death studies by looking beyond human death, to reveal the complex interconnections among human and more …
Suicide in Popular Media and Culture
Studies in Framing a Social Catastrophe
Av Mike F Alvarez, Warren J Bareiss m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1123 kr
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Popular media are powerful mirrors and makers of meaning around suicide.This book brings together scholars from across disciplines to examine how suicide is mythologized, politicized and challenged across film, TV, young adult literature, digital platforms, online communities, and more. From news …
Death and Institutions
Processes, Places and the Past
Av Kate Woodthorpe, Helen Frisby m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1132 kr
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Institutions play a crucial role in shaping experiences of end-of-life care, dying, death, body disposal and bereavement. However, there has been little holistic or multidisciplinary research in this area, with studies typically focusing on individual settings such as hospitals and cemeteries, or …
Trouble with Death
Making Sense of Mortality in the Anthropocene
Av Finn Bowring
Inbunden, 2025
1276 kr
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Are we accepting of death, or in denial of it? What insights can we gain from the ways death has been imagined, theorized, and organized throughout Western social and intellectual history that might help us respond meaningfully to the climate emergency?This interdisciplinary study begins with the …
Trouble with Death
Making Sense of Mortality in the Anthropocene
Av Finn Bowring
Häftad, 2026
709 kr
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Are we accepting of death, or in denial of it? What insights can we gain from the ways death has been imagined, theorized, and organized throughout Western social and intellectual history that might help us respond meaningfully to the climate emergency?This interdisciplinary study begins with the …
Life and Death in Latin American Cities
The Necropolis at Stake
Inbunden, 2025
1132 kr
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The infrastructure of death is an undeniable part of urban life, yet it is often overlooked in the study of cities.This book explores the intricate dynamics between the living and the dead in six Latin American cities: Bogotá, Medellín, Lima, Buenos Aires, Quetzaltenango and Cuenca. Drawing on more …
Trauma, Grief, and Remembrance in the Aftermath of Terrorism
The Phenomenology of Violent Child Loss
Inbunden, 2026
1228 kr
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What does it mean to grieve a child lost to an act of terrorism? This book offers a powerful and deeply human exploration of traumatic bereavement, grounded in parents’ first-hand accounts of losing a child to political violence. Drawing on research in France, the book explores how such loss …
Libraries, Archives and Collective Grief
Av Kaylee P. Alexander, Robert Spinelli
Inbunden, 2026
1263 kr
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Libraries and archives are liminal spaces between what once was and what might be remembered.This edited collection explores this dynamic through international case studies, theoretical discussions and practical guidance, considering how these spaces activate moments of grief through preservation …
