The Matter of Death Space, Place and Materiality [Paperback]

This collection opens up spaces where lives end, bodies are disposed of and memories generated: hospitals, hospices, care homes, coroners' courts, funeral premises, cemeteries, roadsides, the spirit world. Using material culture studies it illuminates the ways human beings make meaningful the challenges of death, dying and bereavement.Materialising Absence;? J.Hockey, C.Komaromy & ?K.Woodthorpe Never Say Die: CPR in Hospital Space;? S.Page Making Hospice Space;? K.Worpole Dying Spaces in Dying Places: Care Homes for Older Adults; ?C.Komaromy The Materialities of Absence after Stillbirth: Historical Perspectives;? J.Bleyen Distributed Personhood and the Transformation of Agency: An Anthropological Perspective on Inquests;? S.Langer Behind Closed Doors? Corpses and Mourners in American and British Funeral Premises;? S.Harper Private Grief in Public Spaces: Interpreting Memorialisation in the Contemporary Cemetery; ?K.Woodthorpe Wandering Lines and Cul-de-sacs: Trajectories of Ashes in the United Kingdom;? L.Kellaher, J.Hockey? & D.Prendergast Natural Burial: The De-materialising of Death?; A.Clayden, J.Hockey & ?M.Powell What Will the Neighbours Say? Reactions to Field and Garden Burial;? T.Walter? & C.Gittings Memorialising the Suicide Victim: 'Walking the Walk';? C.Simone Potent Reminders: An Examination of Responses to Roadside Memorials in Ireland;? U.MacConville? & R.McQuillan Geographies of the Spirit World;? D.Davies Recovering Presence;? J.Hockey, C.Komaromy & ?K.WoodthorpeJAN BLEYEN is an assistant at the research unit, Modernity and Society 1800-2000 at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BelgiumANDY CLAYDEN is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Landscape, University of Sheffield, UKDOUGLAS J. DAVIES is Professor in the Study of Religion at Durham University, UK and Director of The Durham Centre for Death and Life StudiesCLARE GITTINGS works at the National Portrait Gallery, UKSHEILA HARPER is a post-Doctoral Researcher at the Univel²