1st Edition
Covid-19 and Death Studies Multidisciplinary Perspectives and Lessons
Introduction
Arnar Arnason, Bethan Michael-Fox and Erica Borgstrom
1. A thematic analysis investigating the impact of COVID-19 on the way people think and talk about death and dying
Kathryn Radley, Nigel King and Nadia Wager
2. Photographic narratives of Covid-19 during Spain’s state of emergency: images of death, dying and grief
Montse Morcate and Rebeca Pardo
3. Death anxiety and materialism during the pandemic: investigating the role of personal experiences of COVID-19
Agata Trzcińska and Katarzyna Sekścińska
4. Death acceptance among Lodha older adults: their perceptions of ‘good death’ during the COVID-19 pandemic
Jaydeep Sengupta and Sudipta Dey
5. Wishes for a good death in context of the COVID-19 pandemic - perspective of older individuals living in Finland
Tiina Järviö, Lily Nosraty and Anna Liisa Aho
6. ‘I can’t breathe’: the biopolitics and necropolitics of breath during 2020
Stefka Hristova and Amy L. Howard
7. Vaccinating capitalism: racialised value in the COVID-19 economy
Robert Knox and David Whyte
8. Regulating exposure: routine deaths, work and the Covid crisis
Steve Tombs
9. Palliative accompaniment: biomedical and social resignification of dying during the COVID-19 pandemic
Jana Mercadal-Sánchez, Emilio Ferrer-Romero and Ignacio Fradejas-García
10. ‘Thank you for helping me remember a nightmare I wanted to forget’: qualitative interviews exploring experiences of death and dying during COVID-19 in the UK for nurses redeployed to ICU
Caitlin Pilbeam and Stephanie Snow
11. Family narratives of loss and grief during the COVID-19 pandemic in Botswana
Marang K. Phuthegelo and Gabriel Faimau
12. Life stories interrupted: an exploration of United States obituaries during the COVID-19 pandemic
Anna F. Carmon and Matthew C. Rothrock
13. ‘The most difficult time of my life’ or ‘COVID’s gift to me’? Differential experiences of COVID-19 funerary restrictions in Aotearoa New Zealand
Nicholas J. Long, Laumua Tunufa’i, Pounamu Jade Aikman, Nayantara Sheoran Appleton, Sharyn Graham Davies, Antje Deckert, Edmond Fehoko, Eleanor Holroyd, Naseem Jivraj, Megan Laws, Nelly Martin-Anatias, Reegan Pukepuke, Michael Roguski, Nikita Simpson & Rogena Sterling
Biography
Erica Borgstrom is a Professor of Medical Anthropology at The Open University in the United Kingdom. She was Mortality Co-Editor-in-Chief from 2020 to 2024.
Bethan Michael-Fox is Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing at The Open University in the United Kingdom. She has been the Mortality Managing Editor since 2020.
Arnar Árnason is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. He is Mortality Co-Editor-in-Chief.
