Routledge International Handbook of Queer Death Studies

1. Queer Death Studies: In Times of Anthropocene Necropolitics and the Search for New Ethico-Political Imaginations

Nina Lykke, Tara Mehrabi, and Marietta Radomska

PART I. Rethinking  Life/Death Ecologies and Temporalities

Introduction

Marietta Radomska

2. Extinction and the Deep Time of Death

Björn Kröger and Aura Raulo

3. Deterritorialising Death: Queerfeminist Biophilosophy and Ecologies of the Non/Living in Contemporary Art

Marietta Radomska

4. Life/Death Ecologies and Temporalities of Bioart: A Conversation

Ionat Zurr, Oron Catts, and Marietta Radomska

5. Queer Ecologies of Death in the Lab: Rethinking Waste, Decomposition and Death through a Queerfeminist Lens

Tara Mehrabi

6. Dis(re)membering Death in Eco-horror Forests

Agnieszka Kotwasińska

7. The Time of Hybrid Corals: Laboratory Experiments in Extinction and Survival

Anna-Katharina Laboissière

8. Extinction Companion Species: Bare Death, Response-(in)ability, and Human/Non-human Dis/connections

Monika Rogowska-Stangret

9. Posthuman Genetic Legacies: Queering Fertility and (Im)mortality through Biological Arts Practice    

Svenja Kratz and Eliza Burke

PART II. Anthropocene Necropolitics and Extinction

Introduction

Tara Mehrabi

10. The Necropolitics of Care: And How to Dismantle the Master’s House

Maddalena Fragnito

11. Killable Bodies and Necro-Value in Times of COVID: An Ethnography of Death in Iran Through a Feminist-Queer Lens

Tara Mehrabi, and Hajar Ghorbani

12. Metamorphic Necropolitics: Deadly Othering in European East–West Power Relations

Magdalena Górska, Tereza Hendl, and Ewa Majewska

13. Affective Necropolitics: The Promise of Protection and its Deadly Ends

Panos Tsitsanoudis

14. ‘A Gentle Touch’: Imaginaries for Killing Fish Humanely on Social Media

Jesse Peterson

15. Making Death on a Molecular Scale:  Transgenic Mosquitoes, More-Than-Human Biopolitics, and the Emergence of Necrovalue

Josef Barla

16. The Making and Burning of Borders: On Historicity, Storytelling, and Forensic Methods – A  Conversation  

Amade Aouatef M’charek, and Tara Mehrabi

17. Ecocide, Ecological Grief, and the Power of Telling Stories – A Conversation

Polina Choni and Marietta Radomska

18. Alt-right Memes and Microspectropolitics: Posthumanising and Queering Schild and Vrienden’s Memetic Activism

Evelien Geerts

19. Against Abstractions: On Geopolitics, Humanness, Virus, and Death

Sima Shakhsari

20. Frames of Palestinian Childhood and the End of Man

Ruben Hordijk

PART III. Caring Death Activism

Introduction

Nina Lykke

21. Death Activism and the Living World

Patricia MacCormack

22. Queer Ecologies of Death at my Desk: Sinking into the Toxic Legacy of Artistic and Academic Practice

Margherita Pevere

23. Dying All the Time: Violent Ecologies at the End of Life

Sofia Varino

24. Saving Queer and Trans People from ‘Bad’ Deaths: Suicide Prevention as ‘Cruel Optimism’ in Suicidist Contexts

Alexandre Baril

25. A Beautiful Passing: The Story of my Mother’s Euthanasia

Kirsten van der Stelt

26. A Good Day to Die? On Assisted Suicide and Vibrant Dying

Nina Lykke

27. ‘A Life Cut Short’: US-American Death Doulas, Life Expectancy, and Queering the Future

Kristin Gupta

PART IV. Aesthetics and Mediated Imaginaries of Death

Introduction

Marietta Radomska

28. For a Queer Topography of Female Necrophilia: The Neon-Gothic Aesthetics 

Anna Chiara Corradino 

29. The Trans-Death Continuum 

Andria Nyberg Forshage 

30. Queerness, Contagion, Noise: The Death of the (Sexual-Sonic) Subject Constitutes a Queer Noise Moment

Seroconversion (Birt Berglund and Johan Sundell)

31. Queering Death, Desire, and Intimacy: The Cinematic Ecology in Lou Ye’s Spring Fever 

Tianyu Jiang

32. Affective Mapping of David Wojnarowicz’s Selected Works 

Krystian Marcin GrÄ…dz 

33. Necro-Art: Material (After)Life

Jacob B. Riis 

34. The Ambivalence of Exposure: Splicing Time in Tom Bianchi’s Fire Island Pines Polaroids

renée c. hoogland 

35. Queer Complicity, Queer Instauration, and Digital (Im)mortality, or: How to Think About Mourning and Our Cyberselves  

Chantelle Gray

36. Queering the Transhumanist Imaginaries of Life after Death: A Deconstructionist Approach to Cryonics and Mind-Uploading 

Panagiotis Pentaris, and Mattia Petricola 

PART V. Politics and Ethics of Grieving Practices and Remembrance

Introduction

Tara Mehrabi

37. Between Silence and Silencing, Stories Are Told: Documentary Narratives on Queer Elders and the Re-Writing of History

Gustavo Haiden de Lacerda, and Geniane Diamante Ferreira

38. Living with the Dead: Grief Politics and Discourses on Nationalism and Modernity in Georgia

Mariam Shalvashvili

39. Gender Affirming or Disenfranchised Grief? Considering Death Rights in Aotearoa New Zealand

Gareth Schott, Benjamin Doyle, and Wairehu Grant

40. Remaking Death at the Beginning of Life: Living with Technological Decisions

Stine W. Adrian

41. From the Baquiné to the Streets: Performances of Grief

Jessica Rodríguez Colón

42. Caring to Keep One’s Impressions Alive

Theo Tatiana Ilichenko

43. Beyond Transgression: Sexuality, Death and the ‘Human’ in a Post-Shoah Memorial

Elizabeth Berman

44. Queer Grief: From a Public Feeling to Private Grieving

Varpu Alasuutari

45. Permeable Membranes and Prosthetic Fluids: Narrating my Father’s Death

Marta-Laura Cenedese

PART VI. Co-Becoming with the Dead and Spectral Mourning

Introduction

Nina Lykke

46. The Bedana and the Wanderer

Madina Tlostanova

47. Obuntu Bulamu: A Decolonial African Feminist Reconceptualisation of Death and Mourning

Victoria Kawesa

48. Griefly Related: Continuing Friendship After Death

M. Berke

49. Being, Entangled, and Re‘turn’ed in Naja Marie Aidt’s When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl’s Book

Ida Hillerup Hansen

50. Betty (or Libby), Kitty, and Cookie: The (De)Queering of Elizabeth Short, Catherine Genovese, and Sylvia Likens

Anne Bettina Pedersen

51. Archival Activism and Necropolitics in the You Tube Series Queer Ghost Hunters

Amara Miller and Jaime N. Hartless

52. Dust, Documentation, and The Book of the Dead

Erin E. Edwards

53. Posthuman Touch and Mourning within the Realm of the Performative: Narratives of Queer, More-than-Human, and Revolutionary Ghosts

Jacqueline Viola Moulton

54. The Haunting Return of the Mutant Zombie Mink: On Ghost Story Writing as Poetics, Ethics and Method

Line Henriksen

55. Decolonising Mourning: World-Making with the Selk’nam People of Karokynka/Tierra del Fuego

Hema’ny Molina Vargas, Camila Marambio, and Nina Lykke

PART VII. Imagining Life/Death Entanglements Differently

Introduction

Nina Lykke

56. Re/orienting to Death

Annie Werner and Brandy Cochrane

57. Eurydice in the Underworld

Pinelopi Tzouva

58. Queer Reading, Queer Dying

Sarah Ensor

59. Decomposing Wood: Instructions for Survival in the Scraps of Ruin and Collapse

Georgia Perkins and Becky Lyon

60. mythographies of decomposition

mayra rojo

61. Death and Distributed Minds: Creative Speculations on Extended Spider Cognition

Ally Bisshop

62. Passing Strange: The Queer Dimensions of Pandemic Death

Margrit Shildrick

63. What If Every Critter’s Death Was Vibrant? Figuring Ethics Between Ecologies of Gifting and Extinction

Nina Lykke

Biography

Nina Lykke, Dr Phil, Emerita-Professor, Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden, and Honorary Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark, poet, fiction writer, and co- founder of Queer Death Studies Network. Current research focus: death, mourning, continuing bonds with the dead, and cancer ecologies in posthuman, queerfemme-inist, new-materialist, decolonial, eco-critical, and spiritual-material perspectives. A recent monograph is Vibrant Death. A Posthuman Phenomenology of Mourning (2022).

Tara Mehrabi, PhD, senior lecturer, Gender Studies, Karlstad University, Sweden, and co-founder of Queer Death Studies Network. Her research focus is death, mourning, ageing and digitalisation of care through the lens of feminist technoscience studies, intersectionality, posthumanities, and digital humanities. She is co-editor of the edited volume New Materialism and Intersectionality (2024), and has published in journals such as Australian Feminist Studies, NORA, and Women, Gender & Research.

Marietta Radomska, PhD, Docent, is Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities at Linköping University, Sweden; director of The Eco- and Bioart Lab; co- founder of Queer Death Studies Network. She works at the intersection of environmental humanities, continental philosophy, queer death studies, visual culture, contemporary art, and artistic research; and has published in Australian Feminist Studies, Somatechnics, and Environment and Planning E, among others.