Contents:
1 Introduction: continuity, change, and contestation in urban
deathscapes 1
Mariske Westendorp and Danielle House
PART I SOCIO-POLITICAL DEATHSCAPES
2 Informal deathscapes in metropolitan Lima as cultural
knowledge systems 21
Christien Klaufus
3 Between life, death, and modernity at Bukit Brown
Cemetery, Singapore 42
See Mieng Tan and Benedict J.W. Yeo
4 There’s no place like home: minority-majority dialogue,
contestation, and ritual negotiation in cemeteries and
crematoria spaces 61
Katie McClymont, Yasminah Beebeejaun, Avril Maddrell,
Brenda Mathijssen, Danny McNally, and Sufyan Dogra
PART II FAMILIAL DEATHSCAPES
5 Negotiating the aesthetics of mourning in Luxembourg:
on pre-modern forms in post-modern spaces 83
Elisabeth Boesen
6 “The crocodile is stronger in the water”: Swakopmund
jetty as a place of death in Namibia 107
Jack Boulton
7 Adapting to ‘one-size-fits-all’: constructing appropriate
Islamic burial spaces in Northwestern Europe 124
Danielle House, Mariske Westendorp, Vevila Dornelles,
Helena Nordh, and Farjana Islam
PART III TECHNOLOGISED DEATHSCAPES
8 Mechanical grievability: urban graves for the solo dead in Japan 145
Anne Allison
9 Being existed by another through the sensory: the
ungrievable deaths of industrial pigs in slaughterhouse tours 162
Eimear Mc Loughlin
10 Mexico City’s exceptional deathscapes: the disappeared,
(digital) bodies, molecular speculations 180
Arely Cruz-Santiago
11 Afterword: urban deathscapes – bodies, ritual spaces,
urban inequalities, pressures, and opportunities 198
Avril Maddrell
Index 204
Les mer