Dear colleagues,
We're happy to announce the publication of our new book, The Social
Construction of Death. It has one part explicitly focussed on media and
cultural studies, but also engages in a dialogue with other fields,
including sociology, anthropology and political sciences. We hope you
like it.
Kind regards,
Nico & Leen
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The Social Construction of Death.
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Edited by Leen Van Brussel & Nico Carpentier
ISBN: 9781137391926
Publication Date: August 2014
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
See:
http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/the-social-construction-of-death-leen-van-brussel/?K=9781137391926
And the book's Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/SocialConstructionOfDeath
One chapter ("'This in-between': How families talk about death in
relation to severe brain injury and disorders of consciousness") has
already been published as an open access text.
You can download it here:
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9781137391919.999
Blurb
Thanatological research in the social sciences and the humanities
acknowledges that death is culturally and socially embedded. The idea of
the social construction of death has been taken on board, albeit slowly,
by the social and cultural study of death, but explicit reflections on
the underlying ontologies and epistemologies of this paradigm remain
scarce. This edited volume aims to strengthen the paradigmatic
reflections about the social construction of death in thanatology and
aims to contribute to a theoretical reinforcement of the field. It also
puts death and dying more explicitly on the agenda of social
constructionist and social constructivist research in general, arguing
that the study of death is important for these approaches. The thirteen
contributions gathered in this volume, written by well-established
scholars from a variety of disciplines (including sociology,
anthropology, media and cultural studies, and political sciences),
theorise the social construction of death and dying, and deploy it to
analyse a wide variety of meaning-making practices in societal fields
such as ethics, politics, media, medicine and family.
TOC
Introduction; Leen Van Brussel And Nico Carpentier
Part 1: The social construction of death
1. A Discourse-Theoretical Approach To Death And Dying; Leen Van Brussel
2. Studying Illness And Dying Through Constructivist Grounded Theory;
Linda Liska Belgrave And Kathy Charmaz
3. Feeling Bodies: Analysing The Unspeakability Of Death; John Cromby
And Adele Phillips
Part 2: Death in popular media
4. Representations Of Corpses In Comtemporary Television; Tina Weber
5. Ladies' Choice? Requested Death In Film; Fran Mcinerney
6. The Expertise Of Illness: Celebrity Constructions And Public
Understandings; Daniel Ashton
Part 3: Political and ethical dimensions of death
7. Death, Fantasy, And The Ethics Of Mourning; Jason Glynos
8. Ethics, Killing And Dying: The Discursive Struggle Between Ethics Of
War And Peace Models In The Cypriot Independence War Of 1955-1959; Nico
Carpentier
9. On The Deathly Construction Of Society; Arnar Árnason
Part 4: 'Governing' death and the dead
10. From Theft To Donation: Dissection, Organ Donation And Collective
Memory; Glennys Howarth
11. Digital Objects Of The Dead: Negotiating Electronic Remains; Margart
Gibson
12. 'This In-Between': How Families Talk About Death In Relation To
Severe Brain Injury And Disorders Of Consciousness; Celia Kitzinger And
Jenny Kitzinger
Afterword. The Social Construction of Death: Reflections from a
Quantitative Public Health Reseacher; Joachim Cohen
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New book:
The Social Construction of Death. Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Edited by Leen Van Brussel, Nico Carpentier
http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/the-social-construction-of-death-leen-van-brussel/?k=9781137391902
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