New Perspectives on Urban Deathscapes: Continuity, Change and Contestation

Danielle House; Mariske Westendorp

doi:10.4337/9781802202397

New Perspectives on Urban Deathscapes: Continuity, Change and Contestation

Danielle House, Mariske Westendorp

University of Reading

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Abstract

Establishing a new set of international perspectives on experiences of death, disposition and remembrance in urban environments, this book brings deathscapes - material, embodied and emotional places associated with dying and death - to life. It pushes the boundaries of established empirical and conceptual understandings of death in urban spaces through anthropological, geographical and ethnographic insights.

Original language	English
Publisher	Edward Elgar Publishing
Number of pages	228
ISBN (Electronic)	9781802202397
ISBN (Print)	9781802202380
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802202397
Publication status	Published - 14 Feb 2023

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Publisher Copyright:
© Danielle House and Mariske Westendorp 2023.

Keywords

Urban Deathscape
Remembrance
Cemetery
Dying
International Death Cultures
Mourning
Disposition

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