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{"title":"Death enchanted: comparing conventional and conservation burial in the United States with a technological mediation lens","authors":"Sebastian Levar Spivey","doi":"10.1080/13576275.2023.2298813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2023.2298813","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40045,"journal":{"name":"Mortality","volume":"10 16","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139443618","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":"Can death be casual: the paradox in Death Café blogs","authors":"Anuja Jose, Shweta Singh, Vinita Chandra","doi":"10.1080/13576275.2023.2279122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2023.2279122","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTDeath can be a difficult matter to talk about in face-to-face conversations. However, online platforms provide a safe space for people to express feelings and opinions freely. This paper is an attempt to explore how the taboo of discussing death in a casual manner is approached by individuals in an online space. The Death Café blogs were an apt starting point for this study as the movement itself is centred on fostering casual discussions around death and its related matters. A total of 200 blogs posted on the website were studied, and the major themes were identified and analysed. By highlighting the prominent themes that emerge through a careful reading of the blogs, the study foregrounds the paradox in the assumption that liberating conversations about death and dying (as seen in the Death Café blogs and the responses) can invariably mitigate the fear of death and break the death taboo.KEYWORDS: Death Cafémortalitygriefend-of-lifeparadox Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsAnuja JoseAnuja Jose is currently a research scholar at the Department of Humanistic Studies, IIT (BHU), Varanasi. She earned her Masters in English Literature from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala and M.Phil in English from the University of Madras, Tamil Nadu. Her interests lie in Gender and Ritual Studies of South Asia.Shweta SinghShweta Singh completed her PhD in communication studies under the merit fellowship of University Grants Commission. She was a Fellow at Centre for Social Impact and Philanthropy, Ashoka University and has taught at Banaras Hindu University and University of Allahabad as a Visiting Faculty. Her research interest lies in studying the constantly evolving interplay between people, media and societies. She has published nine research papers, a full length project report and has also created learning modules for E-PG Pathshala under the Ministry of Human Resource Development. She is currently associated with TheCSRUniverse- a specialised media platform for in-depth reporting on CSR, ESG and philanthropy in South Asia.Vinita ChandraVinita Chandra is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanistic Studies, IIT (BHU). Previously, she was Assistant Professor and Assistant Director at the Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Banaras Hindu University. She has been Visiting Professor/ Guest Lecturer/ Visiting Fellow to the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University; Kalamazoo College of Liberal Arts, Michigan, USA; School of Religion, Claremont Graduate University; Centre for Postcolonial Education; The Alliance for Global Education and Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi. Chandra specializes in the fields of History and Anthropology of India. She has been consistently interested in Gender Studies. She has published two books and research papers in academic journals.","PeriodicalId":40045,"journal":{"name":"Mortality","volume":"35 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135036782","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":"Caring for the dead at home: an exploratory study of home deathcare in England","authors":"Samantha Hooker, Kate Woodthorpe","doi":"10.1080/13576275.2023.2273492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2023.2273492","url":null,"abstract":"At a time when the natural death and home deathcare movements are gaining traction both in the UK and elsewhere, this article details an exploratory project on the barriers to and potential for caring for deceased people at home in England. A two-phase study, the paper uses data from a discourse analysis and interviews with deathcare professionals to show that there is limited information online on keeping the deceased person at home, and that participants felt that a lack of awareness was a significant barrier to families being able to make an informed choices about home deathcare. Including poor information provision, the paper identifies five reasons as to why there is a low uptake of home deathcare in England and makes recommendations for how each of these barriers may be overcome.","PeriodicalId":40045,"journal":{"name":"Mortality","volume":"2 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135873764","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":"Respect, agency, and posthumous wishes","authors":"Rob Hanson","doi":"10.1080/13576275.2023.2276745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2023.2276745","url":null,"abstract":"The normative significance of posthumous wishes is commonly presented as supervening upon the normative significance attributed to past people. The problem with this strategy is the lack of consensus on the normative significance (if any) of past peoples. In this paper, I sidestep this issue by casting posthumous wishes as but a type of choice people make, thereby presenting their normative significance as supervening on the normative significance we attribute to choice-making (agency) and not on the normative significance of past people. It will be my argument that so long as one’s hypothetical interlocutor assigns value to (at least their own) agency, they are categorically compelled to assign normative significance to posthumous wishes, regardless of their beliefs concerning the ethical status of past people or the nature of death. I then conclude the paper by presenting the implications of this framework in the context of archaeological practice to demonstrate this perspective’s capacity to yield intuitive, actionable guidance with firm philosophical foundations.","PeriodicalId":40045,"journal":{"name":"Mortality","volume":"46 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135868848","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 communicative functions of epitaphs in the linguistic landscape of <i>Libingan ng mga Bayani</i> (Heroes’ Cemetery), Philippines","authors":"Nicko Enrique L. Manalastas","doi":"10.1080/13576275.2023.2268539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2023.2268539","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe study of Philippine cemeteries has been traditionally placed within the purview of archaeology, which, broadly speaking, places importance in its material cultures. To further broaden our knowledge about these sites, this paper explores how Philippine cemeteries, particularly Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB), generate meaning through their linguistic landscape (LL). Using place semiotics approach and indexicality, this study identifies seven communicative functions used in LNMB epitaphs: (1) affective, (2) associative, (3) celebrative, (4) memorative, (6) desiderative, and (7) summative. In doing so, this study not only treats public signs as communicative ‘actors’ which convey meaning and pragmatic function but it also analyzes the act of ‘engaging’ with epitaphs as a highly contextualised speech event. Finally, this study argues that epitaphs signify discourses of memory, remembrance, and patriotism and index sociocultural and political realities, all of which contribute to the creation of LNMB not only as a cemetery per se but also as a place of experience and embodiment.KEYWORDS: Communicative functionsgeosemioticslinguistic landscapeLibingan ng mga Bayaniindexicality AcknowledgementI would like to express my gratitude to Marie Cecilia L. Manalastas for assisting me during the data collection and fieldwork trips to the Libingan. Without her, this study would not have been possible. I would also like to thank those who shared their wonderful insights and comments on an earlier draft of this paper during the 15th Philippine Linguistics Congress held at the University of the Philippines in Diliman.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Additional informationNotes on contributorsNicko Enrique L. ManalastasNicko Enrique L. Manalastas is a Graduate Teaching Associate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of the Philippines in Diliman. He has published a chapter of his undergraduate thesis entitled “(De-)Monstering COVID-19: a diachronic studyof COVID-19 virus multimodal metaphors in Philippine editorial cartoons, 2019–2022” in Multimodal Communication. His research interests include multimodal metaphors in Philippine media, LGBTQ+ linguistics, and Philippine semiotic and linguistic landscapes. He may be reached by email at nlmanalastas@up.edu.ph","PeriodicalId":40045,"journal":{"name":"Mortality","volume":"SE-4 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135412164","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":"Culture’s photodermic enjoyment","authors":"Mlondolozi Zondi","doi":"10.1080/13576275.2023.2265309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2023.2265309","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe aesthetic depiction of the Black corpse raises questions about scopic pleasure, empathy, and the futility of evidence. This essay engages aesthetic speculation about intended justice through Paul Stopforth’s Elegy (1981) and the Biko Series (1980), drawings of Steve Biko’s corpse that are all oriented toward a counter-evidentiary logic whose aim is to disprove the evidence provided by the apartheid police. I posit that this investment in evidence (alternative, or otherwise), capitulates to the terms of the dominant regime by participating in the struggle for evidence (alternative or otherwise) in the first place. I also engage the entanglement between scopophilia and negrophobia/negrophilia in the image of the Black dead, not merely as features of Stopforths’ individual unconscious, but as civil society’s/culture’s most consistent dreamwork. Questioning the political promise of aesthetic mobilization of the corpse, I ask: Why is it necessary for the world to see the image of the corpse (again) in aesthetic practice, in order to reflect on violence, and what modes of recognition and identification are produced? My curiosity lies in what is enacted by recruiting the viewer to adopt such forensic seeing.KEYWORDS: Steve BikoPaul Stopforthevidencedeathpleasure AcknowledgmentsI would like to thank Huey Copeland, Athi Joja, Tyrone Palmer, Franco Barchiesi, and the anonymous reviewers for their critical commentary on various drafts of the paper. Natasha Korda at Wesleyan University’s Center for the Humanities provided space for presenting this work as part of the ‘Unmournable’ workshop. I would like to express gratitude to the workshop attendees for their comments and questions.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. See: Daley (Citation1997).2. An inquest is held when someone dies from reasons other than natural causes. It is not a trial. There are no ‘accused’ and no ‘defence’. See: Bernstein (Citation1978, p. 28).3. The more colloquial meaning of ‘Dit laat my koud’ is ‘I don’t care’ or ‘I don’t feel a thing’ (Woods, Citation1987, p. 214). See: Peffer (Citation2009, p. 178).4. Biko had also recently told his friend, journalist Donald Woods that if he were to die in such circumstances, ‘by any of four means, this would be a lie. The four were self-inflicted hanging, suffocation, bleeding (through for example, slashed wrists), or starvation’ (Woods 213).5. This phrasing is borrowed from a James Baldwin. See: Baldwin (Citation1985).6. For a detailed discussion of ‘entanglement’ and ‘agential realism’, see: Barad (Citation2007).7. The significance of the Market Theatre is that it was a liberal enclave where multi-racial plays protesting the state were produced while the Group Areas Act prohibited inter-racial sociality. Protest-oriented theatre productions by Barney Simon, Percy Mtwa, and Mbongeni Ngema were staged in that space.8. In his later work, Moten distances his position from that of t","PeriodicalId":40045,"journal":{"name":"Mortality","volume":"143 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135883794","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":"Exploited in immortality: techno-capitalism and immortality imaginaries in the twenty-first century","authors":"Joshua Hurtado Hurtado","doi":"10.1080/13576275.2023.2266373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2023.2266373","url":null,"abstract":"Immortality constitutes a very human desire and its pursuit arguably shapes prominent features of human societies. In the twenty-first century, capitalism develops technologies that promise immortality as indefinite survival. Scholars who study immortality often showcase the links between technology, social structures and immortality projects, but a critical inquiry is needed to examine how (techno-)capitalism creates immortality projects that expand the frontiers of capital in contemporary societies. In this article, I highlight how techno-capitalism configures three prominent immortality imaginaries: transhumanist digital immortality, radical biological life-extension, and cryonics. I identify three tendencies of techno-capitalism − 1) expanding commodification to new realms of life, 2) creating new forms of alienation and 3) subordinating life to the private accumulation of capital – and explain how they shape the immortality imaginaries. I argue that pursuing techno-capitalist immortality would induce significant harms for human beings, promising freedom from death but actually sustaining techno-capitalism’s exploitative relations.","PeriodicalId":40045,"journal":{"name":"Mortality","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135095401","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":"A Book Review: The Spaces of Renaissance Anatomy Theater <b>A Book Review: The Spaces of Renaissance Anatomy Theater</b> , edited by Leslie R. Malland, Wilmington, Delaware, Vernon Press, 2022, 238 pp., £64 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-64889-141-0","authors":"Isabella Palmer","doi":"10.1080/13576275.2023.2264214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2023.2264214","url":null,"abstract":"\"A Book Review: The Spaces of Renaissance Anatomy Theater.\" Mortality, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2","PeriodicalId":40045,"journal":{"name":"Mortality","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135592234","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":"Hauntology: ghosts of futures past <b>Hauntology: ghosts of futures past</b> , by Merlin Coverley, Harpenden, Oldcastle Books, 2020, 320 pp., £16.99 (paperback), ISBN 9780857304193","authors":"Bethan Michael-Fox","doi":"10.1080/13576275.2023.2265639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2023.2265639","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40045,"journal":{"name":"Mortality","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135592586","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":"2023 Peer Reviewer Thanks","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/13576275.2023.2272542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2023.2272542","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40045,"journal":{"name":"Mortality","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135902671","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}