Introduction: Innovation at the end of life
Kate Woodthorpe, Jeremy Dixon, Mathew Crawley, Alastair Comery, Chenyang Guo, Polly Maxwell, Tal Morse, Tamarin Norwood, Jana Rek, Diana Teggi, Glenys Howarth and Caron Staley
1. Digital afterlife leaders: professionalisation as a social innovation in the digital afterlife industry
Katarzyna Nowaczyk-Basińska
2. Contemporary responses in Africa to the aftermath of death: developments and decolonising challenges
Sylvia Antonia Nannyonga-Tamusuza, Ruth Evans, Dennis Klass, Henry Okidi Okoth, Naomi Pendle, Jane Ribbens McCarthy and Jedeit Jal Riek
3. Tree burials as undefined spatial alternatives for graves in France: stakes and constraints of nature-based concessions within French funerary regulations
Marie Fruiquiere
4. Saying hello again rather than a long goodbye: a novel way of addressing pre-death grief and facilitating continuing bonds for dementia caregivers
Elizabeth Gilmour and Edith Maria Steffen
5. Ayahs at the deathbed re-visioning elder care: bereavement support and anchorage for in-home dying older adults in urban India
Sayendri Panchadhyayi
6. An exploration of sociopolitical grief
Darcy Harris
7. Resonance and alienation in dying
Tony Walter
8. Decolonising the aftermath of death in UK contexts: theoretical approaches, institutional ‘constraints’, and everyday experiences
Sukhbinder Hamilton, Joseph Keenan, Laura D. Pusey, Jane Ribbens McCarthy, Jacqui Stedmon and Foluke Taylor
9. ‘If I break your leg, you won’t ask me to fix it for you’: innovative explorations in ‘decolonising’ UK bereavement services
Jacqui Stedmon, Sukh Hamilton, Laura D. Pusey and Jane Ribbons McCarthy
10. Grief, choice and digital technology use: how bereaved people use digital technologies to support their grief
Sian Cook
11. Walking amongst the dead: learning on the move
Ruth Penfold-Mounce
12. Improvising end-of-life with young children: death/s and its absolute
Zhaoxi Zheng, Rebecca E. Olson and Sally Staton
13. Examining the role of card game in promoting death awareness in Thailand
Tharin Phenwan, Ekkapop Sittiwantana, Wanna Jarusomboon and Thanarpan Peerawong
14. Critical approaches to death studies: a conversation
Ara Francis, Kami Fletcher and Polly Maxwell
Biography
Kate Woodthorpe is Professor in Sociology at the Centre for Death and Society, the University of Bath.
Jeremy Dixon is a Reader in Social Work at the Centre for Adult Social Care Research (CARE) at Cardiff University.
