Death matters : cultural sociology of mortal life /: cultural sociology of mortal life. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Tora Holmberg, Annika Jonsson, Fredrik Palm, editors.
• Editors: Holmberg, Tora; Jonsson, Annika; Palm, Fredrik
• Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction: Why Death Matters; Tora Holmberg, Annika Jonsson & Fredrik Palm.- Part 1: Places of Absence-Presence. - Chapter 2: Materializing Loss and Facing the Absence-Presence of the Dead; Annika Jonsson.- Chapter 3: Mortmain: Manor Culture and Material Immortality; Tora Holmberg.- Chapter 4: The Death of Place: Exploring Discourse and Materiality in Debates on Rural Development; Tobias Olofsson.- Part 2: Disease/Bodies. - Chapter 5: Living and Dying with Bacteria: Paradoxical Figures of Death; Hedvig Gröndal.- Chapter 6: On Anorexia Nervosa and the Embodied Being-Toward-Death; Nicklas Neuman.- Chapter 7: Viral Desires: Enjoyment and Death in the Contemporary Discourse on Barebacking; Fredrik Palm.- Chapter 8: Me and My Dead Body: Death, Secularism and Simultaneity; Hedvig Ekerwald.- Part 3: Persons and Non-Persons. - Chapter 9: Digital Mourning Labor: Corporate Use of Dead Celebrities on Social Media; Magdalena Kania-Lundholm.- Chapter 10: Aligned with the Dead: Representations of Victimhood and the Dead in Anti-Police Violence Activism Online; María Langa & Philip K. Creswell.- Chapter 11: Frames of Death: Media Audience Framing of a Lethal Drone Strike; Henrik Fürst & Karin Idevall Hagren.- Chapter 12: To Make Pets Live, and to Let them Die: The Biopolitics of Pet Keeping; David Redmalm.- Chapter 13: Mortality and Culture: Do Death Matters Matter?; Ruth Penfold-Mounce.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.9; 128.5; Death -- Social aspects; Death; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030114855; 3030114856
• Related ISBNs: 3030114848; 9783030114848
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 29, 2019).
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