Isabel Beltrán-Gil, María Alexandra Lopez-Cerquera, Linda Guadalupe Reyes Muñoz, Sandra Ivette Sedano Rios, Nuvia Montserrat Maestro Martínez, Diana Newberry Franco
{"title":"Forensic treatment and human identification in the age of COVID-19","authors":"Isabel Beltrán-Gil, María Alexandra Lopez-Cerquera, Linda Guadalupe Reyes Muñoz, Sandra Ivette Sedano Rios, Nuvia Montserrat Maestro Martínez, Diana Newberry Franco","doi":"10.7227/hrv.8.1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7227/hrv.8.1.4","url":null,"abstract":"As a result of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic, in 2020 forensic institutions\u0000 in Mexico began using extreme measures in the treatment of bodies of confirmed\u0000 or suspected cases, due to possible infection. A series of national protocols on\u0000 how to deal with the virus were announced, yet forensic personnel have struggled\u0000 to apply these, demonstrating the country’s forensics crisis. This\u0000 article aims to reflect on two points: (1) the impact that COVID-19 protocols\u0000 have had on how bodies confirmed as or suspected of being infected with the\u0000 virus are handled in the forensic medical system; and (2) the particular\u0000 treatment in cases where the body of the victim is unidentified, and the\u0000 different effects the pandemic has had in terms of the relationship between the\u0000 institutional environment and the family members of those who have died as a\u0000 result of infection, or suspected infection, from COVID-19.","PeriodicalId":305864,"journal":{"name":"Human Remains and Violence","volume":"322 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115867424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Natural deaths in extraordinary times","authors":"Robin C. Reineke","doi":"10.7227/hrv.8.1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7227/hrv.8.1.5","url":null,"abstract":"Research into the governance of dead bodies, primarily focused on post-conflict\u0000 contexts, has often focused on the aspects of the management of dead bodies that\u0000 involve routinisation, bureaucratisation and order. Less attention has been paid\u0000 to the governance of the dead in times of relative peace and, in particular, to\u0000 the aspects of such work that are less bureaucratised and controlled. This\u0000 article explores the governance of dead bodies in pandemic times – times\u0000 which although extraordinary, put stress on ordinary systems in ways that are\u0000 revealing of power and politics. Observations for this article come from over\u0000 fifteen years of ethnographic research at a medical examiner’s office in\u0000 Arizona, along with ten focused interviews in 2020 with medico-legal authorities\u0000 and funeral directors specifically about the COVID-19 pandemic. The author\u0000 argues that the pandemic revealed the ways in which the deathcare industry in\u0000 the United States is an unregulated, decentralised and ambiguous space.","PeriodicalId":305864,"journal":{"name":"Human Remains and Violence","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131957594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘I can’t return to the village without my baby’","authors":"Carmen Rial","doi":"10.7227/hrv.8.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7227/hrv.8.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"Based on the anthropological classification of death into ‘good\u0000 deaths’, ‘beautiful deaths’ and ‘evil\u0000 deaths’, and using the methodology of screen ethnography, this article\u0000 focuses on mourning in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially the\u0000 extreme cases of deaths in Manaus and among the Yanomami people. The article\u0000 ‘follows the virus’, from its first role in a death in the\u0000 country, that of a domestic worker, to hurriedly dug mass graveyards. I consider\u0000 how the treatment of bodies in the epidemiological context sheds light on the\u0000 meanings of separation by death when mourning rituals are not performed\u0000 according to prevailing cultural imperatives. Parallels are drawn with other\u0000 moments of sudden deaths and the absence of bodies, as during the South American\u0000 dictatorships, when many victims were declared ‘missing’. To\u0000 conclude, the article focuses on new funerary rituals, such as Zoom funerals and\u0000 online support groups, created to overcome the impossibility of mourning as had\u0000 been practised in the pre-pandemic world.","PeriodicalId":305864,"journal":{"name":"Human Remains and Violence","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122142858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The necropolitical spectrum","authors":"Nicole Iturriaga, Derek S. Denman","doi":"10.7227/hrv.8.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7227/hrv.8.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"This article sets forth a theoretical framework that first argues that\u0000 necropolitical power and sovereignty should be understood as existing on a\u0000 spectrum that ultimately produces the phenomenon of surplus\u0000 death – such as pandemic deaths or those disappeared by the state. We\u0000 then expound this framework by juxtaposing the necropolitical negligence of the\u0000 COVID-19 pandemic with the violence of forced disappearances to argue that the\u0000 surplus dead have the unique capacity to create political change and reckonings,\u0000 due to their embodied power and agency. Victims of political killings and\u0000 disappearance may not seem to have much in common with victims of disease, yet\u0000 focusing on the mistreatment of the dead in both instances reveals uncanny\u0000 patterns and similarities. We demonstrate that this overlap, which aligns in key\u0000 ways that are particularly open to use by social actors, provides an entry to\u0000 comprehend the agency of the dead to incite political reckonings with the\u0000 violence of state action and inaction.","PeriodicalId":305864,"journal":{"name":"Human Remains and Violence","volume":"154 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131371828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Huddled masses","authors":"S. Raudon","doi":"10.7227/hrv.8.1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7227/hrv.8.1.6","url":null,"abstract":"When drone footage emerged of New York City’s COVID-19 casualties being\u0000 buried by inmates in trenches on Hart Island, the images became a key symbol for\u0000 the pandemic: the suddenly soaring death toll, authorities’ struggle to\u0000 deal with overwhelming mortality and widespread fear of anonymous, isolated\u0000 death. The images shocked New Yorkers, most of whom were unaware of Hart Island,\u0000 though its cemetery operations are largely unchanged since it opened over 150\u0000 years ago, and about one million New Yorkers are buried there. How does Hart\u0000 Island slip in and out of public knowledge for New Yorkers in a cycle of\u0000 remembering and forgetting – and why is its rediscovery shocking? Perhaps\u0000 the pandemic, understood as a spectacular event, reveals what has been there,\u0000 though unrecognised, all along.","PeriodicalId":305864,"journal":{"name":"Human Remains and Violence","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116734064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Suspect bodies","authors":"Liliana Sanjurjo, De Azevedo, Larissa Nadai","doi":"10.7227/hrv.7.2.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7227/hrv.7.2.6","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses the management of bodies in Brazil within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Its objective is to examine how the confluence of underreporting, inequality and alterations in the forms of classifying and managing bodies has produced a political practice that aims at the mass infection of the living and the quick disposal of the dead. We first present the factors involved in the process of underreporting of the disease and its effects on state registration and regulation of bodies. Our analysis then turns to the cemetery to problematise the dynamics through which inequality and racism are re-actualised and become central aspects of the management of the pandemic in Brazil. We will focus not only on the policies of managing bodies adopted during the pandemic but also on those associated with other historical periods, examining continuities and ruptures, as well as their relationship to long-term processes.","PeriodicalId":305864,"journal":{"name":"Human Remains and Violence","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133152210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Graham Denyer Willis, F. Stepputat, Gaëlle Clavandier
{"title":"Special issue introduction: burial and the politics of dead bodies in times of COVID-19","authors":"Graham Denyer Willis, F. Stepputat, Gaëlle Clavandier","doi":"10.7227/hrv.7.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7227/hrv.7.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"The year 2020 was marked by a pandemic that produced exceptional situations. It may still be too early for a comprehensive understanding of its implications, but with this special issue of Human Remains and Violence we seek to explore one particular phenomenon associated with the pandemic: the sudden surge in the number of dead bodies to be processed in the forensic and funerary systems in pandemic hotspots. Excess mortality rates give us an indication of proportion and of the challenge to these systems. In various countries, excess mortality rates for 2020 reached peaks of y to one hundred per cent1 or even more.2 These numbers are based on uncertain and highly uneven statistics, and, since they are national averages, it is reasonable to assume that the extra numbers of dead bodies to deal with in urban hotspots during peak times have been considerably higher. Numbers from New York con rm this assumption. There the number of deaths in 2020 was four times the average over the three preceding years.3 A more ne-grained analysis, based on weekly numbers from Italian municipalities in March–April 2020, suggests that the number of people who died in peak weeks in Bergamo was eight times higher than in previous years, surging from around 25 to close to 200 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants per week.4 Taking our cue from Gilpin Faust, we ask what the ‘work of death’ is in the COVID-19 pandemic.5 Or, in other words, how material, symbolic and political economies of the management and disposal of dead bodies have been a ected by the surplus of dead bodies in the rst year of the pandemic. Starting our introduction with a look at cemeteries – the most visible site in the trajectory of dead bodies – and continuing with re ections on the shi ing relations between death, politics and society, we will suggest that what seems exceptional is actually interwoven with, and in many cases reveals, the ‘norm’. In the following pages we point to some of the questions that emerge from this special issue, namely whether the COVID-19 pandemic reveals a changing relationship between state and capital in the government of dead bodies; how we can develop an analysis of death and the economies of dead bodies to take on board local and global perspectives simultaneously; and in which","PeriodicalId":305864,"journal":{"name":"Human Remains and Violence","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131036506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gaëlle Clavandier, Marc-Antoine Berthod, Philip Charrier, Martin Julier-Costes, Veronica Pagnamenta
{"title":"From one body to another","authors":"Gaëlle Clavandier, Marc-Antoine Berthod, Philip Charrier, Martin Julier-Costes, Veronica Pagnamenta","doi":"10.7227/hrv.7.2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7227/hrv.7.2.4","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about an unprecedented global crisis. To limit the spread of the virus and the associated excess mortality, states and governing bodies have produced a series of regulations and recommendations from a health perspective. The funerary aspects of these directives have reconfigured not only the ways in which the process of dying can be accompanied, but also the management of dead bodies, impacting on the dying, their relatives and professionals in the sector. Since March 2020, the entire process of separation and farewell has been affected, giving rise to public debates about funeral restrictions and the implications for mourning. We carried out a study in France and Switzerland to measure the effects of this crisis, and in particular to explore whether it has involved a shift from a funerary approach to a strictly mortuary one. Have the practices that would normally be observed in non-pandemic times been irrevocably altered? Does this extend to all deaths? Has there been a switch to an exclusively technical handling? Are burial practices still respected? The results of the present study pertain to the ‘first wave’ of spring 2020 and focus on the practices of professionals working in the funeral sector.","PeriodicalId":305864,"journal":{"name":"Human Remains and Violence","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122329085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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