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Author:   Nina Lykke (Linköping University, Sweden) ,  Tara Mehrabi (Karlstad University, Sweden) ,  Marietta Radomska (Linköping University, Sweden)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   1.560kg
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9781032504384

ISBN 10:   1032504382
Pages:   740
Publication Date:   30 October 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
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1. Queer Death Studies: In Times of Anthropocene Necropolitics and the Search for New Ethico-Political Imaginations PART I. Rethinking Life/Death Ecologies and Temporalities Introduction 2. Extinction and the Deep Time of Death 3. Deterritorialising Death: Queerfeminist Biophilosophy and Ecologies of the Non/Living in Contemporary Art 4. Life/Death Ecologies and Temporalities of Bioart: A Conversation 5. Queer Ecologies of Death in the Lab: Rethinking Waste, Decomposition and Death through a Queerfeminist Lens 6. Dis(re)membering Death in Eco-horror Forests 7. The Time of Hybrid Corals: Laboratory Experiments in Extinction and Survival 8. Extinction Companion Species: Bare Death, Response-(in)ability, and Human/Non-human Dis/connections 9. Posthuman Genetic Legacies: Queering Fertility and (Im)mortality through Biological Arts Practice PART II. Anthropocene Necropolitics and Extinction Introduction 10. The Necropolitics of Care: And How to Dismantle the Master’s House 11. Killable Bodies and Necro-Value in Times of COVID: An Ethnography of Death in Iran Through a Feminist-Queer Lens 12. Metamorphic Necropolitics: Deadly Othering in European East–West Power Relations 13. Affective Necropolitics: The Promise of Protection and its Deadly Ends 14. ‘A Gentle Touch’: Imaginaries for Killing Fish Humanely on Social Media 15. Making Death on a Molecular Scale: Transgenic Mosquitoes, More-Than-Human Biopolitics, and the Emergence of Necrovalue 16. The Making and Burning of Borders: On Historicity, Storytelling, and Forensic Methods – A Conversation 17. Ecocide, Ecological Grief, and the Power of Telling Stories – A Conversation 18. Alt-right Memes and Microspectropolitics: Posthumanising and Queering Schild & Vrienden’s Memetic Activism 19. Against Abstractions: On Geo-Politics, Humanness, Virus, and Death 20. Frames of Palestinian Childhood and the End of Man PART III. Caring Death Activism Introduction 21. Death Activism and the Living World 22. Queer Ecologies of Death at my Desk: Sinking into the Toxic Legacy of Artistic and Academic Practice Margherita Pevere 23. Dying All the Time: Violent Ecologies at the End of Life 24. Saving Queer and Trans People from ‘Bad’ Deaths: Suicide Prevention as ‘Cruel Optimism’ in Suicidist Contexts 25. A Beautiful Passing: The Story of my Mother’s Euthanasia 26. A Good Day to Die? On Assisted Suicide and Vibrant Dying 27. ‘A Life Cut Short’: US-American Death Doulas, Life Expectancy, and Queering the Future PART IV. Aesthetics and Mediated Imaginaries of Death Introduction 28. For a Queer Topography of Female Necrophilia: The Neon-Gothic Aesthetics 29. The Trans-Death Continuum 30. Queerness, Contagion, Noise: The Death of the (Sexual-Sonic) Subject Constitutes a Queer Noise Moment 31. Queering Death, Desire, and Intimacy: The Cinematic Ecology in Lou Ye’s Spring Fever 32. Affective Mapping of David Wojnarowicz’s Selected Works 33. Necro-Art: Material (After)Life 34. The Ambivalence of Exposure: Splicing Time in Tom Bianchi’s Fire Island Pines Polaroids 35. Queer Complicity, Queer Instauration, and Digital (Im)mortality, or: How to Think About Mourning and Our Cyberselves 36. Queering the Transhumanist Imaginaries of Life after Death: A Deconstructionist Approach to Cryonics and Mind-Uploading PART V. Politics and Ethics of Grieving Practices and Remembrance Introduction 37. Between Silence and Silencing, Stories Are Told: Documentary Narratives on Queer Elders and the Re-Writing of History Gustavo Haiden de Lacerda, and Geniane Diamante Ferreira 38. Living with the Dead: Grief Politics and Discourses on Nationalism and Modernity in Georgia Mariam Shalvashvili 39. Gender Affirming or Disenfranchised Grief? Considering Death Rights in Aotearoa New Zealand Gareth Schott, Benjamin Doyle, and Wairehu Grant 40. Remaking Death at the Beginning of Life: Living with Technological Decisions 41. From the Baquiné to the Streets: Performances of Grief 42. Caring to Keep One’s Impressions Alive 43. Beyond Transgression: Sexuality, Death and the ‘Human’ in a Post-Shoah Memorial 44. Queer Grief: From a Public Feeling to Private Grieving 45. Permeable Membranes and Prosthetic Fluids: Narrating my Father’s Death PART VI. Co-Becoming with the Dead and Spectral Mourning Introduction 46. The Bedana and the Wanderer 47. Obuntu Bulamu: A Decolonial African Feminist Reconceptualisation of Death and Mourning 48. Griefly Related: Continuing Friendship After Death 49. Being, Entangled, and Re‘turn’ed in Naja Marie Aidt’s When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl’s Book 50. Betty (or Libby), Kitty, and Cookie: The (De)Queering of Elizabeth Short, Catherine Genovese, and Sylvia Likens 51. Archival Activism and Necropolitics in the You Tube Series Queer Ghost Hunters 52. Dust, Documentation, and The Book of the Dead 53. Posthuman Touch and Mourning within the Realm of the Performative: Narratives of Queer, More-than-Human, and Revolutionary Ghosts 54. The Haunting Return of the Mutant Zombie Mink: On Ghost Story Writing as Poetics, Ethics and Method 55. Decolonising Mourning: World-Making with the Selk’nam People of Karokynka/Tierra del Fuego PART VII. Imagining Life/Death Entanglements Differently Introduction 56. Re/orienting to Death 57. Eurydice in the Underworld 58. Queer Reading, Queer Dying 59. Decomposing Wood: Instructions for Survival in the Scraps of Ruin and Collapse 60. mythographies of decomposition 61. Death and Distributed Minds: Creative Speculations on Extended Spider Cognition 62. Passing Strange: The Queer Dimensions of Pandemic Death 63. What If Every Critter’s Death Was Vibrant? Figuring Ethics Between Ecologies of Gifting and Extinction

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Nina Lykke, Dr Phil, Emerita-Professor, Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden, and Honorary Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark, poet, fiction writer, and co- founder of Queer Death Studies Network. Current research focus: death, mourning, continuing bonds with the dead, and cancer ecologies in posthuman, queerfemme-inist, new-materialist, decolonial, eco-critical, and spiritual-material perspectives. A recent monograph is Vibrant Death. A Posthuman Phenomenology of Mourning (2022). Tara Mehrabi, PhD, senior lecturer, Gender Studies, Karlstad University, Sweden, and co-founder of Queer Death Studies Network. Her research focus is death, mourning, ageing and digitalisation of care through the lens of feminist technoscience studies, intersectionality, posthumanities, and digital humanities. She is co-editor of the edited volume New Materialism and Intersectionality (2024), and has published in journals such as Australian Feminist Studies, NORA, and Women, Gender & Research. Marietta Radomska, PhD, Docent, is Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities at Linköping University, Sweden; director of The Eco- and Bioart Lab; co- founder of Queer Death Studies Network. She works at the intersection of environmental humanities, continental philosophy, queer death studies, visual culture, contemporary art, and artistic research; and has published in Australian Feminist Studies, Somatechnics, and Environment and Planning E, among others.

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