1st Edition
Evocative Autoethnographies of Loss, Grief and Death
Introduction
Chapter 1: Autoethnographic Insights into Loss, Grief, and Death
Khyati Tripathi and Ian R Lamond
Section 1: Eternal Bonds
Chapter 2: Re-encountering My Father Through Writing
Giulia Carozzi
Chapter 3: Writing to My Father: A Daughter’s Therapeutic Journey Through Death and Grief
Ann-Marie Smith
Chapter 4: All That Lingers: An Autoethnography of Smell in Bereavement
Alexandra Ridgway
Chapter 5: Willemijn, the Story: Narrating the Death of a Daughter
Mariska Westendorp
Editors’ Reflections I
Section 2: Caring Through Illness
Chapter 6: Lazarus Died: A Widow’s Autoethnographic Storying of Young Onset Dementia-Related Grieving
Pat Sikes
Chapter 7: Edgewalking in the Land of the Living and the Dying
Eunice Gorman
Section 3: Creative Responses to Loss and Grief
Chapter 8: Opera Autoethnographica: In Memoriam. Fractured Silences.
Susan Manchoulas
Chapter 9: Dancing with Death
Kathrin Marks
Editors’ Reflections II
Section 4: Loss and Grief at the Crossroads
Chapter 10: Feminist; Migrant; Postdoc; A ‘Young’ Breast Cancer Patient: Not Necessarily in That (Dis)Order
Patrycja Sosnowka-Buxton
Chapter 11: The Social and Symbolic Function of Funeral Directors in the Hellenic Communities of Melbourne, and the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Autoethnography
George Sarantoulias
Chapter 12: Death’s Messes: Carework at the Intersection of Mothering and Veterinary Medicine
Emily S Katt
Editors’ Reflections III
Conclusion
Chapter 13: The Book of Life Is Brief: Conclusion?
Ian R Lamond & Khyati Tripathi
Biography
Ian R Lamond is an independent post-humanist social science/cultural theory researcher and honorary fellow at the NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences in Leeuwarden (NL). Their work adopts a post-disciplinary approach to the conceptual foundations of event studies; creative forms of dissent; identity and fandom, and death studies. They have published several edited collections, monographs, book chapters, and encyclopaedia entries.
Khyati Tripathi is a Postdoctoral researcher with the End-of-Life Care Research Group at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). She approaches death studies from a multi-disciplinary lens spanning psychology, anthropology, and psychoanalysis. Her work frames larger discussions on palliative and end of life care, bereavement, funerary and post-funerary rituals.
