Handbook of Social Justice in Loss and Grief: Exploring Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion [Paperback]

The second edition of the Handbook of Social Justice in Loss and Grief has been completely overhauled, with twenty-six new chapters by leaders in the fields of social justice, socially just practice, death, dying, loss, and grief. The chapters include opportunities for learning, reflection, and application to both clinical practice and scholarly discourse in the field.

This is a scholarly work of social criticism, richly grounded in personal experience, evocative case studies, and current multicultural and sociocultural theories and research. It is also consistently practical and reflective, challenging readers to think through responses to ethically complex scenarios in which social justice is undermined by radically uneven opportunity structures, hierarchies of voice and privilege, personal and professional power, and unconscious assumptions, at the very junctures when people are most vulnerableat points of serious illness, confrontations with end-of-life decision making, and in the throes of grief and bereavement.

Part 1: Introductory Concepts? 1. Social Justice Conceptualizations in Loss and Grief? 2. Looking at Loss and Grief from a Critically Informed Perspective? 3. Living, Suffering, and Dying in a Globalized World? 4. Suffocated Grief and Oppression-Based Loss? Part 2: Identity, Lived Experience, and Grief? 5. Black Parenting, Resistance, and Oppression in Loss and Grief? 6. Loss and Grief among LGBTQ+ Youth Emerging into Adulthood? 7. Intersectionality, Loss, and Student Grief in College? 8. Loss and Grief in Canadas First Nations People? 9. Ageism, Loss, and Spiritual Diminishment? 10. Im open to facing the fear as well as the good: Enfranchised Grief and Intellectual Disability? Part l_