Edited by Danielle House, Senior Research Associate, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, UK and Mariske Westendorp, Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands with Avril Maddrell, School of Archaeology, Geography, and Environmental Sciences, University of Reading, UK

• Contents:1 Introduction: continuity, change, and contestation in urbandeathscapes 1Mariske Westendorp and Danielle HousePART I SOCIO-POLITICAL DEATHSCAPES2 Informal deathscapes in metropolitan Lima as culturalknowledge systems 21Christien Klaufus3 Between life, death, and modernity at Bukit BrownCemetery, Singapore 42See Mieng Tan and Benedict J.W. Yeo4 There’s no place like home: minority-majority dialogue,contestation, and ritual negotiation in cemeteries andcrematoria spaces 61Katie McClymont, Yasminah Beebeejaun, Avril Maddrell,Brenda Mathijssen, Danny McNally, and Sufyan DograPART II FAMILIAL DEATHSCAPES5 Negotiating the aesthetics of mourning in Luxembourg:on pre-modern forms in post-modern spaces 83Elisabeth Boesen6 “The crocodile is stronger in the water”: Swakopmundjetty as a place of death in Namibia 107Jack Boulton7 Adapting to ‘one-size-fits-all’: constructing appropriateIslamic burial spaces in Northwestern Europe 124Danielle House, Mariske Westendorp, Vevila Dornelles,Helena Nordh, and Farjana IslamPART III TECHNOLOGISED DEATHSCAPES8 Mechanical grievability: urban graves for the solo dead in Japan 145Anne Allison9 Being existed by another through the sensory: theungrievable deaths of industrial pigs in slaughterhouse tours 162Eimear Mc Loughlin10 Mexico City’s exceptional deathscapes: the disappeared,(digital) bodies, molecular speculations 180Arely Cruz-Santiago11 Afterword: urban deathscapes – bodies, ritual spaces,urban inequalities, pressures, and opportunities 198Avril MaddrellIndex 204

‘This volume challenges us to rethink the diversity of deathscapes – not just cemeteries and columbaria but also retirement homes, hospitals, museums and Facebook pages. Through the fraught terrain of death, the window on life is turned upside-down, giving us a ground-up view of contestations across social-political, familial and technological spheres.’

Edited by Danielle House, Senior Research Associate, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, UK and Mariske Westendorp, Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands with Avril Maddrell, School of Archaeology, Geography, and Environmental Sciences, University of Reading, UK

• Contents:1 Introduction: continuity, change, and contestation in urbandeathscapes 1Mariske Westendorp and Danielle HousePART I SOCIO-POLITICAL DEATHSCAPES2 Informal deathscapes in metropolitan Lima as culturalknowledge systems 21Christien Klaufus3 Between life, death, and modernity at Bukit BrownCemetery, Singapore 42See Mieng Tan and Benedict J.W. Yeo4 There’s no place like home: minority-majority dialogue,contestation, and ritual negotiation in cemeteries andcrematoria spaces 61Katie McClymont, Yasminah Beebeejaun, Avril Maddrell,Brenda Mathijssen, Danny McNally, and Sufyan DograPART II FAMILIAL DEATHSCAPES5 Negotiating the aesthetics of mourning in Luxembourg:on pre-modern forms in post-modern spaces 83Elisabeth Boesen6 “The crocodile is stronger in the water”: Swakopmundjetty as a place of death in Namibia 107Jack Boulton7 Adapting to ‘one-size-fits-all’: constructing appropriateIslamic burial spaces in Northwestern Europe 124Danielle House, Mariske Westendorp, Vevila Dornelles,Helena Nordh, and Farjana IslamPART III TECHNOLOGISED DEATHSCAPES8 Mechanical grievability: urban graves for the solo dead in Japan 145Anne Allison9 Being existed by another through the sensory: theungrievable deaths of industrial pigs in slaughterhouse tours 162Eimear Mc Loughlin10 Mexico City’s exceptional deathscapes: the disappeared,(digital) bodies, molecular speculations 180Arely Cruz-Santiago11 Afterword: urban deathscapes – bodies, ritual spaces,urban inequalities, pressures, and opportunities 198Avril MaddrellIndex 204

‘This volume challenges us to rethink the diversity of deathscapes – not just cemeteries and columbaria but also retirement homes, hospitals, museums and Facebook pages. Through the fraught terrain of death, the window on life is turned upside-down, giving us a ground-up view of contestations across social-political, familial and technological spheres.’

Edited by Danielle House, Senior Research Associate, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, UK and Mariske Westendorp, Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands with Avril Maddrell, School of Archaeology, Geography, and Environmental Sciences, University of Reading, UK

• Contents:1 Introduction: continuity, change, and contestation in urbandeathscapes 1Mariske Westendorp and Danielle HousePART I SOCIO-POLITICAL DEATHSCAPES2 Informal deathscapes in metropolitan Lima as culturalknowledge systems 21Christien Klaufus3 Between life, death, and modernity at Bukit BrownCemetery, Singapore 42See Mieng Tan and Benedict J.W. Yeo4 There’s no place like home: minority-majority dialogue,contestation, and ritual negotiation in cemeteries andcrematoria spaces 61Katie McClymont, Yasminah Beebeejaun, Avril Maddrell,Brenda Mathijssen, Danny McNally, and Sufyan DograPART II FAMILIAL DEATHSCAPES5 Negotiating the aesthetics of mourning in Luxembourg:on pre-modern forms in post-modern spaces 83Elisabeth Boesen6 “The crocodile is stronger in the water”: Swakopmundjetty as a place of death in Namibia 107Jack Boulton7 Adapting to ‘one-size-fits-all’: constructing appropriateIslamic burial spaces in Northwestern Europe 124Danielle House, Mariske Westendorp, Vevila Dornelles,Helena Nordh, and Farjana IslamPART III TECHNOLOGISED DEATHSCAPES8 Mechanical grievability: urban graves for the solo dead in Japan 145Anne Allison9 Being existed by another through the sensory: theungrievable deaths of industrial pigs in slaughterhouse tours 162Eimear Mc Loughlin10 Mexico City’s exceptional deathscapes: the disappeared,(digital) bodies, molecular speculations 180Arely Cruz-Santiago11 Afterword: urban deathscapes – bodies, ritual spaces,urban inequalities, pressures, and opportunities 198Avril MaddrellIndex 204

‘This volume challenges us to rethink the diversity of deathscapes – not just cemeteries and columbaria but also retirement homes, hospitals, museums and Facebook pages. Through the fraught terrain of death, the window on life is turned upside-down, giving us a ground-up view of contestations across social-political, familial and technological spheres.’