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Deathscapes - Spaces for Death, Dying, Mourning and Remembrance (Hardcover, New edition)
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Deathscapes - Spaces for Death, Dying, Mourning and Remembrance (Hardcover, New edition)
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Death is at once a universal and everyday, but also an
extraordinary experience in the lives of those affected. Death and
bereavement are thereby intensified at (and frequently contained
within) certain sites and regulated spaces, such as the hospital,
the cemetery and the mortuary. However, death also affects and
unfolds in many other spaces: the home, public spaces and places of
worship, sites of accident, tragedy and violence. Such spaces, or
Deathscapes, are intensely private and personal places, while often
simultaneously being shared, collective, sites of experience and
remembrance; each place mediated through the intersections of
emotion, body, belief, culture, society and the state. Bringing
together geographers, sociologists, anthropologists, cultural
studies academics and historians among others, this book focuses on
the relationships between space/place and death/ bereavement in
'western' societies. Addressing three broad themes: the place of
death; the place of final disposition; and spaces of remembrance
and representation, the chapters reflect a variety of scales
ranging from the mapping of bereavement on the individual or in
private domestic space, through to sites of accident, battle,
burial, cremation and remembrance in public space. The book also
examines social and cultural changes in death and bereavement
practices, including personalisation and secularisation. Other
social trends are addressed by chapters on green and garden burial,
negotiating emotion in public/ private space, remembrance of
violence and disaster, and virtual space. A meshing of material and
'more-than-representational' approaches consider the nature,
culture, economy and politics of Deathscapes - what are in effect
some of the most significant places in human society.
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