Mobilities in Life and Death

Přispěvatelé: Maddrell, Avril, Kmec, Sonja, Priya Uteng, Tanu, Westendorp, Mariske
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
Předmět:
Cemeteries and crematoria as shared public space
Cemeteries and crematoria in multicultural societies
Diversity and minority issues in cemeteries and crematoria
Negotiation between majority and minorities practices
Symbolic practices and cultural inclusion in public spaces
Migrant and minority sacred practices and spiritual mobility
Lived citizenship and integration in ritual spaces
Planning
management and use of cemeteries and crematoria

Secularization and post-secularization in Europe
Hyperdiversity and remembrance rites
Cemeteries in multicultural post-secular society
French cemeteries and religious diversity
Funeral provisions and economic considerations
Polish migrants and cemeteries
Migration and changing cemeteries in Germany
Jews diaspora and contemporary cemeteries
Traveller communities and cemeteries
Bengali-heritage communities and crematoria
Hindu cremation and funerary practices in England and Wales
bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFN Migration
immigration & emigration

bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPP Public administration
Druh dokumentu: book
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-28284-3
Popis: This open access book focuses on migrant and minority cemetery needs through the conceptual lens of the mobilities of the living and the dead. In doing so, the book brings migration and mobility studies into much-needed dialogue with death studies to explore the symbolically and politically important issue of culturally inclusive spaces of cemeteries and crematoria for migrants and established minorities. The book addresses majority and minority cemetery and crematoria provisions and practices in a range of North West European contexts. It describes how the planning, management and use of cemeteries and crematoria in multicultural societies can tell us about the everyday lived experiences of migration and migrant heritage, urban diversity, social inclusion and exclusion in Europe, and how these relate to migrant and minority experience of lived citizenship, practices of territoriality and bordering, colonial/postcolonial narratives. The book will be of interest to readers in the fields of migration/mobilities studies and death studies, as well as policy makers and practitioners, such as local government officers, cemetery managers and city planners.
Databáze: OAPEN Library