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