Editors:
Provides a deeper understanding of how death comes to matter in contemporary social affairs
Applies a shared cultural sociological focus on a variety case studies, inspiring and stimulating further discussions in the field of death studies
Analyses how death emerges in processes of subjectivity and materiality in everyday life
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Persons and Non-Persons
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book investigates death as part of contemporary everyday experience and practices. Through a cultural sociological lens, it studies death as it remains constantly at the edge of our consciousness, shaping the ways in which we move through social reality. As such, Death Matters is a significant contribution to death studies, going beyond traditional parameters of the field by addressing the cultural omnipresence of death.
The contributions analyse several death-related meaning-making processes, arguing that meanings emerging from culturally shared narratives, social institutions, and material conditions, are just as important as ’death practices’ in understanding the role of death in society. Drawing on the related themes of places of absence and presence, disease and bodies, and persons and non-persons, the authors explore a variety of areas of social life, from haunting to celebrity deaths, to move the notion of death from the margins of social reality to ongoing everyday life.
This far-reaching collection will be of use to scholars and students across death studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, culture, media and communication studies.
Editors and Affiliations
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Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Tora Holmberg, Fredrik Palm
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Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden
Annika Jonsson
About the editors
Tora Holmberg is Professor in Sociology at the Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, Sweden.
Annika Jonsson is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social and Psychological Studies, University of Karlstad, Sweden.
Fredrik Palm is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, Sweden.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Death Matters
Book Subtitle: Cultural Sociology of Mortal Life
Editors: Tora Holmberg, Annika Jonsson, Fredrik Palm
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11485-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-11484-8Published: 29 April 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-11485-5Published: 05 April 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 289
Number of Illustrations: 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural Studies, Social Theory, Sociology of Culture, Medical Sociology