Death Matters Cultural Sociology of Mortal Life /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Holmberg, Tora (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Jonsson, Annika (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Palm, Fredrik (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Cultural studies.; Social sciences-Philosophy.; Culture.; Social medicine.; Cultural Studies.; Social Theory.; Sociology of Culture.; Medical Sociology.

This book investigates death and mortality through a cultural sociological lens. The concept of death tends to remain constantly at the edge of our consciousness, intruding on our everyday experiences and practices. Death Matters is a significant contribution to death studies, going beyond tradition...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.