Queer Death Studies: Coming to Terms with Death, Dying and Mourning Differently. An Introduction

This special issue aims to rethink death, dying and mourning through theoretical and methodological modes of queering. These modes are mobilised under three overarching themes: (1) queer (necro)politics, which focuses not only on regimes and technologies that subjugate “life to the power of death”...

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Autores principales: Marietta Radomska, Tara Mehrabi, Nina Lykke
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:ef4854192cd440eb9d3b288b1155988e2021-12-01T00:04:06ZQueer Death Studies: Coming to Terms with Death, Dying and Mourning Differently. An Introduction10.7146/kkf.v28i2-3.1163042245-6937https://doaj.org/article/ef4854192cd440eb9d3b288b1155988e2019-09-01T00:00:00Zhttps://tidsskrift.dk/KKF/article/view/116304https://doaj.org/toc/2245-6937 This special issue aims to rethink death, dying and mourning through theoretical and methodological modes of queering. These modes are mobilised under three overarching themes: (1) queer (necro)politics, which focuses not only on regimes and technologies that subjugate “life to the power of death” (Mbembe 2003, 39), while rendering some lives more grievable than others, but also, on queer modes of resistance; (2) posthuman ethico-politics of death, which seeks to problematise and undermine human exceptionalism, while exploring human/nonhuman relationalities in the context of death and dying; and (3) queering death and mourning, which concentrates on nonnormative practices of remembering and mourning the dead. Marietta RadomskaTara MehrabiNina LykkeThe Royal Danish LibraryarticleQueer Death StudiesDeathDyingMourningQueer theorySocial SciencesHDAENNBSVKvinder, Køn & Forskning, Vol 28, Iss 3-4 (2019)
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Death
Dying
Mourning
Queer theory
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spellingShingle Queer Death Studies
Death
Dying
Mourning
Queer theory
Social Sciences
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Marietta Radomska
Tara Mehrabi
Nina Lykke
Queer Death Studies: Coming to Terms with Death, Dying and Mourning Differently. An Introduction
description This special issue aims to rethink death, dying and mourning through theoretical and methodological modes of queering. These modes are mobilised under three overarching themes: (1) queer (necro)politics, which focuses not only on regimes and technologies that subjugate “life to the power of death” (Mbembe 2003, 39), while rendering some lives more grievable than others, but also, on queer modes of resistance; (2) posthuman ethico-politics of death, which seeks to problematise and undermine human exceptionalism, while exploring human/nonhuman relationalities in the context of death and dying; and (3) queering death and mourning, which concentrates on nonnormative practices of remembering and mourning the dead.
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Nina Lykke
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title Queer Death Studies: Coming to Terms with Death, Dying and Mourning Differently. An Introduction
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title_full Queer Death Studies: Coming to Terms with Death, Dying and Mourning Differently. An Introduction
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