[csaa-forum] new book - The Social Construction of Death - ed. Van Brussel & Carpentier

[nico carpentier]

[Apologies for cross-posting]

Dear colleagues,
We're happy to announce the publication of our new book, The Social 
Construction of Death. It combines work situated in sociology, 
anthropology, media and cultural studies, and political sciences. We 
hope you like it.
Kind regards,
Nico & Leen

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The Social Construction of Death.
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Edited by Leen Van Brussel & Nico Carpentier
ISBN: 9781137391926
Publication Date: August 2014
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

See:
http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/the-social-construction-of-death-leen-van-brussel/?K=9781137391926

And the book's Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/SocialConstructionOfDeath

One chapter ("'This in-between': How families talk about death in 
relation to severe brain injury and disorders of consciousness") has 
already been published as an open access text.

You can download it here:
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9781137391919.999

Blurb
Thanatological research in the social sciences and the humanities 
acknowledges that death is culturally and socially embedded. The idea of 
the social construction of death has been taken on board, albeit slowly, 
by the social and cultural study of death, but explicit reflections on 
the underlying ontologies and epistemologies of this paradigm remain 
scarce. This edited volume aims to strengthen the paradigmatic 
reflections about the social construction of death in thanatology and 
aims to contribute to a theoretical reinforcement of the field. It also 
puts death and dying more explicitly on the agenda of social 
constructionist and social constructivist research in general, arguing 
that the study of death is important for these approaches. The thirteen 
contributions gathered in this volume, written by well-established 
scholars from a variety of disciplines (including sociology, 
anthropology, media and cultural studies, and political sciences), 
theorise the social construction of death and dying, and deploy it to 
analyse a wide variety of meaning-making practices in societal fields 
such as ethics, politics, media, medicine and family.

TOC

Introduction; Leen Van Brussel And Nico Carpentier

Part 1: The social construction of death

1. A Discourse-Theoretical Approach To Death And Dying; Leen Van Brussel
2. Studying Illness And Dying Through Constructivist Grounded Theory; 
Linda Liska Belgrave And Kathy Charmaz
3. Feeling Bodies: Analysing The Unspeakability Of Death; John Cromby 
And Adele Phillips

Part 2: Death in popular media

4. Representations Of Corpses In Comtemporary Television; Tina Weber
5. Ladies' Choice? Requested Death In Film; Fran Mcinerney
6. The Expertise Of Illness: Celebrity Constructions And Public 
Understandings; Daniel Ashton

Part 3: Political and ethical dimensions of death

7. Death, Fantasy, And The Ethics Of Mourning; Jason Glynos
8. Ethics, Killing And Dying: The Discursive Struggle Between Ethics Of 
War And Peace Models In The Cypriot Independence War Of 1955-1959; Nico 
Carpentier
9. On The Deathly Construction Of Society; Arnar Árnason

Part 4: 'Governing' death and the dead

10. From Theft To Donation: Dissection, Organ Donation And Collective 
Memory; Glennys Howarth
11. Digital Objects Of The Dead: Negotiating Electronic Remains; Margart 
Gibson
12. 'This In-Between': How Families Talk About Death In Relation To 
Severe Brain Injury And Disorders Of Consciousness; Celia Kitzinger And 
Jenny Kitzinger

Afterword. The Social Construction of Death: Reflections from a 
Quantitative Public Health Reseacher; Joachim Cohen

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New book:
The Social Construction of Death. Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Edited by Leen Van Brussel, Nico Carpentier
http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/the-social-construction-of-death-leen-van-brussel/?k=9781137391902
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