Death studies typically focus on the death of humans, overlooking the wider factors involved in social and natural processes around death. This edited volume provides an alternative focus for death studies by looking beyond human death, to reveal the complex interconnections among human and more than human creatures, entities and environments.

Bringing together a diverse range of international scholars, the book sheds light on topics which have previously remained at the margins of contemporary death studies and death care cultures. Organised around three themes - Knowledge and Mediation, Care and Remembrance, and Agency and Power - this book pushes the boundaries of death studies to explore death and dying from beyond the perspective of a nature/culture binary.

About the Author

Jesse D. Peterson is Lecturer and Assistant Professor with the Radical Humanities Laboratory at University College Cork.

Natashe Lemos Dekker is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University.

Philip R. Olson is Associate Professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society at Virginia Tech.

Reviews
"A crucially important book that radically expands how we humans can and should consider the end-of-life. The editors shift conventional views on death and dying by including cross-species mortality alongside the destruction of the environment. This is an extremely urgent book to read right now." John Troyer, University of Bath
"An important contribution to the intellectual development of Death Studies, taking death beyond the human and bounded subject, as well as a timely reminder of death's transdisciplinary relevance and insight." Hannah Rumble, University of Bath
"This is a bold, original collection of studies exploring human and more-than-human entanglements in relation to death. A must-read for scholars interested in the intersection of death, ecology and politics." Brenda Mathijssen, University of Groningen



Book Information
ISBN 9781529230147
Author Jesse D. Peterson
Format Hardback
Page Count 210
Imprint Bristol University Press
Publisher Bristol University Press