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Author:   Michael Hviid Jacobsen ,  Anders Petersen
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.800kg
ISBN:  

9780367192464

ISBN 10:   0367192462
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   26 September 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction: Towards a Sociology of Grief: Historical, Cultural and Social Explorations of Grief as an Emotion Part 1: Grief and History 1. Grief in Modern History: An Ongoing Evolution 2. Diversity in Human Grieving: Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives 3. The Impact of he Two World Wars on Cultures of Grieving: Grief in England, 1914-1980 Part 2: Grief and Literature 4. Magical Thinking: Experiences of Grief and Mourning in George Saunders’ Lincoln In The Bardo and Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing 5. A Story of Loss: Self-Narration of Grief and Public Feeling Rules 6. Writing Grief: The Fraught Work of Mourning in Fiction Part 3: Forms of Grief 7. The Denial of Grief: Reflections from a Decade of Anthropological Research on Parental Bereavement and Child Death 8. Public Mourning: Displays of Grief and Grievance 9. Grief in Human and Companion-Animal Loss, Bonding and Dividual Pet-Personhood Part 4: Grief and Social Critique 10. The Medicalisation of Grief 11. Suffocated Grief, Resilience and Survival Among African-American Families 12. Grief in an Individualised Society: A Critical Corrective to the Advancement of Diagnostic Culture

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Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the editor of The Poetics of Crime and Postmortal Society and Critical and Cultural Interactionism, and co-editor of The Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman, Encountering the Everyday, The Transformation of Modernity, Utopia: Social Theory and the Future, Liquid Criminology, Imaginative Methodologies: The Poetic Imagination in the Social Sciences, and Towards a Criminology of Emotions. Anders Petersen is Associate Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the co-author of Late Modern Subjectivity and its Discontents and the co-editor of The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization, Imaginative Methodologies: The Poetic Imagination in the Social Sciences and Critical Happiness Studies.

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