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Hi,
Please could you advertise the following, thanks.
*A call for papers*
British Sociological Association (BSA) Sub-Group Meeting
Social Aspects of Death, Dying & Bereavement
Monday 17th November 2008, 10am – 4.30pm
Venue: The Quaker Meeting House, Sheffield.
Theme: Identities and Transitions
This theme provides an opportunity to re-visit the concepts ‘death’, ‘dying’ and
‘bereavement’, and consider how Death Studies has dealt with the diversity and
heterogeneity which they encompass – and sometimes obscure. We therefore
welcome papers which ask how aspects of identity based on differences such as
social class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality might become important around the
time of death. Included here are regional and rural/urban distinctions; as
well as differences between - and among - practitioner and lay identities. In
addition, we invite participants to consider the contribution of theoretical
work on identity and transition. For example, the notion that identity is an
embodied process, rather than a label that the individual acquires. Does this
perspective shed useful light on the transitions associated with dying and
bereavement? What are the implications for identity when the body undergoes
critical change, when it disappears, when it returns via photographs, other
media, its residual belongings? And as the materiality of the body undergoes
change, what role do transitions between contexts – from home to institution,
from bed to coffin – play in shaping identity? Has the concept of social death
obscured more subtle processes of social dying?
Please send 250 word abstracts for 20 minute papers to Jenny Hockey
([log in to unmask]).
Deadline for abstract submission is the 15th September.
Symposium Registration opens on 10th July.
Symposium fees: £20 for BSA members and £25 for non-BSA members.
Please visit the department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield
website to register and for further symposium details
http://www.shef.ac.uk/socstudies
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