New Perspectives on Urban Deathscapes

Continuity, Change, and Contestation

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Establishing a new set of international perspectives from around the world on experiences of death, disposition and remembrance in urban environments, this book brings deathscapes – material, embodied and emotional places associated with dying and death – to life. It pushes the boundaries of established empirical and conceptual understandings of death in urban spaces through anthropological, geographical and ethnographic insights.Chapters reveal how urban deathscapes are experienced, used, managed and described in specific locales in varied settings; how their norms and values intersect and at times conflict with the norms of dominant and assumed practices; and how they are influenced by the dynamic practices, politics and demographics typical of urban spaces. Case studies from across Africa, Asia, Europe and North and South America highlight the differences between deathscapes, but also show their clear commonality in being as much a part of the world of the living as they are of the dead.With a people- and space-centred approach, this book will be an interesting read for human geography, death studies and urban studies scholars, as well as social and cultural anthropologists and sociologists. Its international and interdisciplinary nature will also make this a beneficial book for planning and landscape architecture, religious studies and courses on death practices.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-02-24
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781802202380

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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