Death’s Social and Material Meaning beyond the Human

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Jesse D. Peterson (University College Cork) Natashe Lemos Dekker (Leiden University)

Death’s Social and Material Meaning beyond the Human

Jesse D. Peterson (University College Cork), Natashe Lemos Dekker (Leiden University), Philip R. Olson (Virginia Tech)

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Bristol University Press
09 January 2024

Interdisciplinary studies; Material culture; Sociology: death & dying; Memory; The environment

Series: Death and Culture

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 than human creatures, entities and environments.

Bringing together a diverse range of international scholars, the book sheds light on topics which have previously remained at the margins of contemporary death studies and death care cultures. Organised around three themes – Knowledge and Mediation, Care and Remembrance, and Agency and Power – this book pushes the boundaries of death studies to explore death and dying from beyond the perspective of a nature/culture binary.

Edited by: Jesse D. Peterson (University College Cork), Natashe Lemos Dekker (Leiden University), Philip R. Olson (Virginia Tech)
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781529230147
ISBN 10: 1529230144
Series: Death and Culture
Pages: 210
Publication Date: 09 January 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

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 - Céline Schnegg, Séverine 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 México and Ecuador during COVID-19 - Rosa Inés Padilla Yépez, 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

Jesse D. Peterson is Lecturer and Assistant Professor at University College Cork. Natashe Lemos Dekker is a postdoctoral researcher at the Leiden Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology. Philip R. Olson is Associate Professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society at Virginia Tech.

Reviews for Death’s Social and Material Meaning beyond the Human

"“A crucially important book that radically expands how we humans can and should consider the end-of-life. The editors shift conventional views on death and dying by including cross-species mortality alongside the destruction of the environment. This is an extremely urgent book to read right now.” John Troyer, University of Bath “An important contribution to the intellectual development of Death Studies, taking death beyond the human and bounded subject, as well as a timely reminder of death’s transdisciplinary relevance and insight.” Hannah Rumble, University of Bath ""This is a bold, original collection of studies exploring human and more-than-human entanglements in relation to death. A must-read for scholars interested in the intersection of death, ecology and politics.” Brenda Mathijssen, University of Groningen"