Overview

Full Product Details

9780754679752

Table of Contents

Reviews

'This remarkable, genuinely inter-disciplinary collection examines the spaces, places and landscapes of death and bereavement in western societies. Elegantly written and impeccably researched, these essays underline how western attitudes to death are geographically constituted. Deathscapes provides an unflinching, unsentimental and often moving commentary on the last great taboo of the modern age.' Mike Heffernan, University of Nottingham, UK 'Deathscapes is more than the sum of its interdisciplinary parts. It describes living with death, locating burial spaces and negotiating sites of mourning while linking historical and contemporary funerary trends across wide geographical tracts. This imaginative collection builds a powerfully integrated picture of human mortality. Experts and the curious will not be disappointed.' Douglas J. Davies, Durham University, UK 'This multidisciplinary collection presents important new insights into the spaces and places of death and dying. Bringing together theoretically and empirically rich approaches to subjects as varied as near death experiences, green burial and memorial art, the editors provide an indispensable guide to the inevitable.' Joyce Davidson, Queen's University, Canada 'Students and scholars will find this book a useful and thought-provoking addition for the spatial study of death and dying... [The contributors are] fully interdisciplinary, including scholars from sociology, public health, anthropology, history of art and architecture.' Area 'I congratulate the authors and editors on their contribution to the field of necrogeographical scholarship. This volume in particularly provides some interesting discussions and raises some critical points about an unavoidable part of life (and therefore planning) that is rarely considered.' Australian Planner 'This book will definitely be successful in attracting more people to the important topics of geographies of death, dying and remembrance. It is convincing as it gives a well-written, intriguing overview of the field, with contributions by many relevant scholars from diverse disciplines. The book works so well because most of them managed to discuss matters of life and death in down-to-earth concrete settings.' Social and Cultural Geography

'This remarkable, genuinely inter-disciplinary collection examines the spaces, places and landscapes of death and bereavement in western societies. Elegantly written and impeccably researched, these essays underline how western attitudes to death are geographically constituted. Deathscapes provides an unflinching, unsentimental and often moving commentary on the last great taboo of the modern age.' Mike Heffernan, University of Nottingham, UK 'Deathscapes is more than the sum of its interdisciplinary parts. It describes living with death, locating burial spaces and negotiating sites of mourning while linking historical and contemporary funerary trends across wide geographical tracts. This imaginative collection builds a powerfully integrated picture of human mortality. Experts and the curious will not be disappointed.' Douglas J. Davies, Durham University, UK 'This multidisciplinary collection presents important new insights into the spaces and places of death and dying. Bringing together theoretically and empirically rich approaches to subjects as varied as near death experiences, green burial and memorial art, the editors provide an indispensable guide to the inevitable.' Joyce Davidson, Queen's University, Canada 'Students and scholars will find this book a useful and thought-provoking addition for the spatial study of death and dying... [The contributors are] fully interdisciplinary, including scholars from sociology, public health, anthropology, history of art and architecture.' Area 'I congratulate the authors and editors on their contribution to the field of necrogeographical scholarship. This volume in particularly provides some interesting discussions and raises some critical points about an unavoidable part of life (and therefore planning) that is rarely considered.' Australian Planner 'This book will definitely be successful in attracting more people to the important topics of geographies of death, dying and remembrance. It is convincing as it gives

Author Information

Avril Maddrell, University of the West of England, UK and James D. Sidaway,University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Lily Kong, Avril Maddrell, James D. Sidaway, Jacqueline H. Watts, Mary Murray, Kate Woodthorpe, Bel Deering, Clare Gittings, Tony Walter, Andy Clayden, Trish Green, Jenny Hockey, Mark Powell, Anna Petersson, Leonie Kellaher, Ken Worpole, Kenneth Foote, Sylvia Grider, Joanne Wojtkowiak, Eric Venbrux, Penelope J.E. Davies, Hilary J. Grainger, Paul Gough, Polly Gould.

Tab Content 6

Countries Available