1st Edition
Decolonising Death Studies
Introduction
Panagiotis Pentaris, Stacey Pitsillides, and Hajar Ghorbani
Part I – Death, Ritual, and Cultural Identity
Chapter One – The Soundworld and Death: Reconfiguring the Lifeworld through Funeral Rituals in Iran
Behrang Nikaeen
Chapter Two – An Exploration of Greek Cultural, Social and Religious Factors Affecting the Grieving Process in the Child and Adolescent after Parental Loss
Ignatia Farmakopoulou
Chapter Three – Māori Cremation and Colonisation: Conceptions of Identity of the Cremated Dead
Averil Martin
Chapter Four – Exploring Funeral Law, Migration, and Religious Expression in Italy: A Decolonial Perspective
Giorgio Scalici
Part II – Mediations, Representations, and Colonial Echoes
Chapter Five – Death and Colonial Hangover in The Vampire Diaries: A Study of Representations in the Audiovisual Fantasy Genre
Sanghita Dey and Agnidh Baruah
Chapter Six – Deadbots as New Fetish of Postmortal Societies: A "Digital Decolonization" of Death?
Lionel Obadia
Chapter Seven – Mediation and Mediatisation of Death and Dying: A Scoping Review of the Literature Based on a Decolonial Perspective
Bruno Frutuoso Costa, Joana Azevedo, Sónia F. Bernardes, and Iñaki Garcia-Blanco
Chapter Eight – Surrendering to Death and Its Aftermath: Conceptual Explorations in the Era of Coloniality/Modernity
Jane Ribbens McCarthy and Sukhbinder Hamilton
Part III – Necropolitics, Marginalisation, and Resistance
Chapter Nine – Death, Relationality, and Resistance against Necropolitical Violence in Latin America
Joshua Hurtado Hurtado
Chapter Ten – Ritualising and Memorialising Unjust Death: The Affective Force of COVID Loss in Brazil and the United States
Andreia Vicente da Silva and Sarah Wagner
Chapter Eleven – The Moral, Social, and Political Death of Trans Community. A Queer Death Studies: A Systematic Review
Eriselda Zere and Sevaste Chatzifotiou
Chapter Twelve – Death Is a Drag: Performatic Encounters, Mourning Rhythms, and Brazilian Gambiarra
Gustavo Haiden de Lacerda
Part IV – Rewordling, Myth, and Community
Chapter Thirteen – A Migrant Dies in Egypt: Jacob’s Spectacular Repatriation to His Family Tomb
George Gumisiriza
Chapter Fourteen – Druze Reincarnation: Migration, Political Agency, and Grief
Stacey Pitsillides, Reem Tahlouk, and Sena Cerci
Chapter Fifteen – Grief at the End of the Anthropocene: Climate Emergency, Loss, and Eco-Grief
Tamara Borovica, Katrin Gerber, and Larissa Hjorth
Chapter Sixteen – Decolonising Death: Indigenisation of Community Collaboration
Katie Stringer Clary, Carolyn D. Dillian, Cheryl Cail, and Harold Hatcher
Biography
Panagiotis Pentaris, Associate Professor of Social Work and Thanatology, Thanatology Research Lab, Goldsmiths University of London.
Stacey Pitsillides, Associate Professor in Design, Design Feminisms Research Group, Northumbria University.
Hajar Ghorbani, PhD Candidate of Anthropology, IW Killam Memorial Scholar and SSHRC Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar, University of Alberta.
