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What's the episode about?
In this episode, hear Heidi Kosonen discuss representations of voluntary death suicide, posthumanism, planetary death, emotion, affect, disgust and gender
Who is Heidi?
Heidi Kosonen is a postdoctoral researcher (Contemporary Culture) at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, with research expertise covering varied affective contemporary cultural phenomena.
She defended her PhD on suicide cinema from the perspectives of taboo and biopower Fall 2020 and is currently focused on the question of planetary death in her personal post-doc.
She has studied hate speech, toxic speech, and counterspeech on several research projects and has especially specialized in the performative use of disgust through the Disgust Network, which she co-founded.
Her research connects affect studies approaches to social justice and taboo-related questions in contemporary culture. She is an editor-in-chief of Finnish gender studies journal Sukupuolentutkimus-Genusforskning and a vice chair of The Society for Cultural Studies in Finland.
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Kosonen, H. (2024) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published November 2024. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.27434706
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What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Evie King discuss council funerals, being a funeral officer, the unidentified dead, Section 46, dying alone, rituals, respect for the dead, marginalisation and her book Ashes to Admin Who is Evie? Evie King is a council worker and writer. A former stand up comedian, she has always written short form pieces in the margins of her various day jobs, contributing to New Humanist, Guardian Comment is Free, BBC Comedy and Viz Comic. Since moving to the seaside and going part-time she has had more time for writing and has completed her first book - Ashes to Admin - about her job arranging council funerals under her pen name. She is currently working on asecond. The book mentioned in the introduction by podcast co-host Dr Renske Visser and the podcast’s first ever guest Professor Erica Borgstrom is https://www.routledge.com/Critical-Approaches-to-Death-Dying-and-Bereavement/Borgstrom-Visser/p/book/9781032330624?srsltid=AfmBOopYgRNL7SR_6NymBb-QPGhhEnc6sZ_weXcndNlIPb1VYDhar6gg. Discount code: SMA23How do I cite the episode in my research and reading lists?To cite this episode, you can use the following citation: King, E. (2024) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 1 October 2024. Available at: http://www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com/, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.27141447What next?Check out more https://thedeathstudiespodcast.com/episodes/ or find out more about the https://thedeathstudiespodcast.com/the-hosts/Got a question? https://thedeathstudiespodcast.com/contact-us/.
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What's the episode about?
In this episode, hear Dr. Minakshi Dewan on last ritesand rituals in India, gender, faith, religion, funeral pyres, sky burial, caste, gender, discrimination and the professionalisation of rites and funerals
Who is Minakshi?
Dr Minakshi Dewan is a researcher and writer with a PhD degree in social medicine and community health from Jawaharlal Nehru University and a master's degree in social work from TISS Mumbai. She possesses extensive experience in health, gender, and community mobilization with grassroots and international development organizations. She has contributed chapters in academic publications on tribal health and healing rituals. Her writings have appeared in leading Indian and internationalpublications and address a range of issues, including, health, human rights, the environment and culture. She has also written a non-fiction title for children. The Final Farewell: Understanding the Last Rites and Rituals of India’s Major Faiths, is her debut non-fiction book with Harper Collins, India.
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Dewan, M. (2024) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 1 September 2024. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.26886349
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What's the episode about?In this episode, hear Professor Nina Lykke on queer and feminist death studies; posthumanism; the more than human; necropolitics; philosophy, atheism anddeath; vibrant death; mourning, and ongoing relationships with the dead
Who is Nina?
Nina Lykke, Dr. Phil., Professor Emerita, Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden, and Adjunct Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Nina participated in the building of Feminist Studies in Scandinavia and Europe more broadly for many years.
She is also a poet and writer, and co-founder, in 2016, of the international Network for Queer Death Studies.
Current research interests: queering of cancer,death, and mourning in posthuman, queerfemme, new-materialist, decolonial, eco-critical and spiritual-material perspectives; feminist and femme-inist theory; intersectional methodologies; autophenomenography; poetic writing;eco-critical storytelling.
She has recently published articles in journals such as Australian Feminist Studies; NORA; Catalyst; Environmental Humanities; Social Identities; Kerb Journal; Lambda Nordica; Forum+; Women, Gender and Research and Somatechnics. She is also author of numerous monographs such as Cosmodolphins (2000), Feminist Studies (2010), Vibrant Death (2022) and Feminist Reconfigurings of AlienEncounters (2024, with K.Aglert and L.Henrksen).
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Lykke, N. (2024) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 1 August 2024. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.26422072
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RADICAL RE-IMAGININGS FOR THE END OF LIFE
From 4-6 September, the Department of Graphic Design, Falmouth University (UK), and the Death and Culture Network, University of York (UK); in partnership with the Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan (USA), and the Glasgow End of Life Studies Group, University of Glasgow (UK) are hosting the DEATHxDESIGNxCULTURE: RADICAL RE-IMAGININGS FOR THE END OF LIFE conference.
The conference seeks to open discursive space for ‘traditional’ as well as practice-based and practice-led research to critically reflect on the role of design as it relates to death, dying, and disposal at individual, community, and broader cultural levels, and to suggest radical alternatives for the future.
With a focus on interdisciplinarity, the conference aims to support knowledge exchange between researchers within the social sciences, the humanities, and design. Design is positioned as an expanded field inviting contributions from subject areas including, but not limited to: graphic design; multidisciplinary design; architecture; digital design; fashion design; and product design.
A multi-modal approach will stretch the conventions of a conference format, incorporating experience design; exhibitions and pedagogic interventions; university-industry knowledge transfer; and opportunities for traditional academic papers. -
What's the episode about?
In this episode, hear Dr Hannah Gould on death and the dead in Japan, changing death rituals, necromaterials, death rites, caring for the dead, death technologies, vertical burial, material culture and ethnographies of things.
Who is Hannah?
Dr. Hannah Gould is a cultural anthropologist studying religion, materiality, death, and discarding with a regional focus in North-East Asia and Australia. In her words, “she studies the stuff of death and the death of stuff.” Dr. Gould has degrees from The University of Melbourne and Oxford University, and completed her doctoral research into the transformation of contemporary Japanese death ritual. Dr Gould currently serves as the President of The Australian Death Studies Society and holds the Melbourne Postdoctoral Fellowship for the project “Mobile Mortality: Transnational Futures of Deathcare in the Asia Pacific”.
Dr Gould is also the author of When Death Falls Apart (University of Chicago Press, 2023) and co-editor of Aromas of Asia (Penn State University Press, 2023). Alongside
academic research and publishing, she facilitates and engages in public and media-based conversations about death, dying, religion and technology, and is an advocate for more equitable systems of deathcare.
The Book from this week’s Introduction Radical Mindfulness by James K. Rowe, Associate Professor at the School of Environmental Studies in the University of Victoria examines the root causes of injustice, asking why inequalities along
the lines of race, class, gender, and species continue to exist. Specifically, James Rowe examines fear of death as a root cause of systemic inequalities and proposes a more embodied approach to social change as a solution.
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Gould, H. (2024) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 1 July 2024. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.26139067
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In this episode, hear Dr Juliet Hooker discuss her book Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss, language and social justice, democracy, and killings by the police in the US
Who is Juliet?
Juliet Hooker is the Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence in Political Science at Brown University, where she teaches courses on racial justice, Black political thought, Latin American political thought, democratic theory, andcontemporary political theory. Before coming to Brown, she was a faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of multiple award-winning books, including Race and the Politics of Solidarity (Oxford,2009), Theorizing Race in the Americas: Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos (Oxford, 2017), Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss (Princeton, 2023), and editor of Black and Indigenous Resistance inthe Americas: From Multiculturalism to Racist Backlash (Lexington Books, 2020). Theorizing Race in the Americas was awarded the American PoliticalScience Association’s 2018 Ralph Bunche Book Award for the best work in ethnic and cultural pluralism and the 2018 Best Book Award of the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section. Black Grief/White Grievance was named a Seminary Co-Op Notable Book of the Year, a LibraryJournal Best Social Science Book of the Year, and a finalist for the PROSE Award in Government and Politicsfrom the Association of American Publishers in 2023.
Find out more about Juliet at https://juliethooker.com/
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Hooker, J. (2024) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 1 June 2024. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.25941190
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In this episode, hear Yasmin Gunaratnam discuss transnational dying and end-of-life care in cities, ethnography, being a carer, writing, education with end-of-life-care professionals, artful risky care, using art methods in social sciences research, palliative art, hospitality, migration and death, an anti-colonial death studies and climate crisis, the genocide in Gaza, yoga, and being an academic with ADHD
Who is Yasmin?
Yasmin Gunaratnam is a sociologist interested in how different types of inequality and injustice are produced, lived with and remade and how these processes create new forms of local and global inclusion and dispossession. Yasmin is also a yoga teacher, exploring contemplative social justice and embodied pedagogies. Her publications include 'Researching Race and Ethnicity: methods, knowledge and power' (2003, Sage), ‘Death and the Migrant’ (2013, Bloomsbury Academic) and the co-authored book ‘Go Home? The Politics of Immigration Controversies’ (2017, Manchester University Press). She tweets @YasminGun
The Book in the Introduction
The book introduced in this episode is Youth and Suicide inAmerican Cinema: Context, Causes, and Consequences (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)by Alessandra Seggi, MA, PhD, Fulbright Scholar and faculty at Villanova University, Department of Sociology and Criminology. Find out more at: https://www.alessandraseggi.com/How do I cite the episode in my research and reading lists?
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Gunaratnam, Y. (2024) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 2 May 2024. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.25735434
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In this episode, hear M.F. (Mike) Alvarez onsuicide, mental health and illness, autoethnography, fine art, reflexive writing, creative writing, interdisciplinarity and biases in the academy
Who is M.F. Alvarez?
M. F. (Mike) Alvarez is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of New Hampshire inDurham, USA. He is the author of two books: TheParadox of Suicide and Creativity (LexingtonBooks, 2020), and Unraveling: An Autoethnography of Suicide and Renewal (Routledge, 2023). He is also lead author of A Plague for Our Time: Dying and Death in the Age of COVID-19 (McFarland, forthcoming), and lead editor of Suicide in Popular Media and Culture (BristolUP, in progress). Dr. Alvarez is a founding member of the National Communication Association’s Death and Dying Division. He teaches courses in mental health communication, end of life communication, film and media studies, and autoethnography.How do I cite the episode in my research and reading lists?To cite this episode, you can use the following citation:
Alvarez. M. F. (2024) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 1 April 2024. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.25516474
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What's the episode about?In this episode, hear author and vocal coach Clare Hogan discuss death anxiety, breath work, transpersonal psychology, performing death, death cafes and seeing death as anadventure and gateway to more life.
Who is Clare? After completing her GMus at the Royal Northern College of Music, Clare went on to do a Masters by Research at Keele University. It was there that she discovered an interestin psychology.
Whilst still researching for her MA, Clare started tutoring at Keele and later at Salford University. Clare devised and has run the Master's course 'Psychology of Performance' atSalford for over 20 years. Clare is an expert in classical and operatic technique and has a keen interest in helping those suffering from anxiety and/or stage-fright.
Her latest book, Performance and Purpose in Death and Dying, was written over three years in response to the growing need for a sense of purpose in the wake of so much destruction and devastation, with the aim of communicating the message that there is no death as we commonly perceive it, and there is nothing to fear.
It developed and grew from the courses, classes and the Death Cafes that Clare has delivered and facilitated. The Alchemy of Performance Anxiety: Transformation for Artists waspublished in 2018, also by Free Association Books.
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Hogan, C. (2024) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted byMichael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 4 March 2024. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.25334869
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In this episode, hear Professor Lucy Easthope discuss disaster recovery, emergency planning, risk, the Grenfell and Hillsborough disasters in the UK, humanitarian disasters, pregnancy loss, hope and wellbeing.
Who is Lucy?
Lucy Easthope is a UK expert and adviser on emergency planning and disaster recovery.
She is a Professor in Practice of Risk and Hazard at the University of Durham, and co-founder of the After Disaster Network at the university.
She is also a Visiting Professor in Mass Fatalities and Pandemics at the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath, a researcher at the Joint Centre for Disaster Research at Massey University, a former Senior Fellow of the Emergency Planning College, and a member of the Cabinet Office National Risk Assessment Behavioural Science Expert Group.
She is the author of When the Dust Settles: Stories of Love, Loss and Hope from an Expert in Disaster and The Recovery Myth: The Plans and Situated Realities of Post-Disaster Response.
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Easthope, L. (2024) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 1 February 2024. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.25092782
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In this episode, hear Professor Ann Luce on suicide, the ethical reporting of suicide, suicide prevention, the Bridgend suicides, emotional labour in research self-care, and living with post-Covid complications and long Covid.
Who is Ann?
Dr. Ann Luce is a Professor of Journalism and Health Communication at Bournemouth University on the southwest coast of England.
She is co-creator of the Suicide Reporting Toolkit www.suicidereportingtoolkit.com a toolkit for journalists and journalism educators on how best to report ethically and responsibly on suicide.
Professor Luce has spent over 15 years researching and writingabout suicide and mental illness. One of her most notable pieces of journalism was investigating suicide rates in Florida, which eventually garnered support for the creation of the Office of Suicide Prevention and Drug Control in the State of Florida. Ann also won a "Responsible and Ethical Reporting of Suicide' award from then-Governor, Jeb Bush.
Find out more about Ann on her university profile or her website.
Additional Audio in this Episode
Information on Corinne and how to contact her and a link to the book Everyday Armageddons discussed in the episode introduction are below.
Corinne Elicona is an independent scholar known for her expertisein death studies, digital content management, and death education. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a CANA Crematory Operations Certification. Her work has been featured in publications such as Nursing Clio, the Collective for Radical Death Studies, and the Order of the Good Death. She is currently working as the Education & Digital Content Manager and DEIB Task Force lead at the historic Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she is passionate about developing educational programs and fostering community connections.
The book featured in the introduction this month was:
Everyday Armageddons: Stories andReflections on Death, Dying, God, and Waste by Matthew Holmes and Thomas R. Gaulke
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Luce, A. (2024) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 7 January 2024. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.24954678
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What's the episode about?
This episode accompanies the edited collection Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture edited by Sharon Coleclough and podcast hosts Bethan Michael-Fox and Renske Visser. In it you will find a discussion between the editors and an interview with the author of the foreword, Professor Ruth Penfold-Mounce, as well as summaries of each chapter to help you navigate and engage with the book.
Find out more about the book.
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The Death Studies Podcast (2023) Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 1 December 2023. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.24715908
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What's the episode about?In this episode, hear Dr Christopher Hood discuss the world’s largest single plane crash, memorials, disasters, Japan and Japanese memorial cultures, writing fiction, plane crashes, mental health and academia, suicide and academia, and much more!
Who is Chris?
Christopher Hood is a Reader in Japanese Studies at Cardiff University.
His publications include the Japan: The Basics, Osutaka: A Chronicle of Loss in the World’s Largest Single Plane Crash, and Dealing with Disaster in Japan: Responses to the Flight JL123 Crash,and ‘Truth and Limitations: Japanese Media and Disasters’ (in Handbook of Japanese Media and Popular Culture in Transition), ‘Japanese Disaster Narratives of the Early Twenty-First Century: Continuity and Change’ (published in French in Ebisu Études japonaises), and ‘Disaster Narratives by Design: Is Japan Different?’ (International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters).
He is also the author of the novels Hijacking Japan, Tokyo 20/20 Vision, and FOUR.
Homepage: http://hoodcp.wordpress.com
Twitter: @HoodCP
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Hood, C. (2023) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 1 December 2023. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.24711444
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What's the episode about?
In this episode, hear Foluke Taylor discuss writing and the permission to write (and think) differently, the limits of decolonisation, citational practices, therapy, language, grief, biomythography, creatique, different pathways in reading and what ‘we’ should and shouldn’t read, empathy, therapy, the power of not knowing, and the notion of pluriversal realities.
Who is Foluke?
Foluke Taylor is a therapist* writer working with an asterisk to signal black feminist modes of creation, space-making, and care. She teaches at the Metanoia Institute in London and is a trustee for Mslexia: For Women Who Write. She is author of How theHiding Seek (2018) and Unruly Therapeutic: Black FeministWritings and Practices in Living Room, published by W.W. Norton in February 2023.
She is currently based in London.
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Taylor, F. (2023) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox,B. and Visser, R. Published 1 November 2023. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com,DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.24475006
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What's the episode about?
In this episode, hear Angeline Morrison at the 2023 Falmouth University Haunted Landscapes conference on voicing Black British ancestors through music, folk music and death, W. E. B. Du Bois and sorrow songs, unregistered lives, the stories of Frances Elizabeth Johnson and Caesar, a formerly enslaved African buried in Hartlepool, as well as pet loss. Plus, highlights from the Haunted Landscapes conference.
Who is Angeline?
Angeline Morrison is a singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter who explores traditional song with a deep love, respect and curiosity. Angeline mostly makes music in the genres of wyrd folk and psych folk, her work infused with elements of soul music, literature, ‘60s beat pop sounds, folklore, myth and the supernatural.
With a feral approach, a handmade sonic aesthetic and a belief in the importance of tenderness, Angeline’s original compositions and re-stitchings of traditional songs focus on storytelling and the small things that often go unnoticed. Sounds like solitude, memory, nostalgia, a rainy walk amongst trees...
In July 2022, Angeline was announced as the fourth winner of the prestigious Christian Raphael Prize at Cambridge Folk Festival, which generously supports the development of emerging talent in the folk genre. In December 2022 The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience was voted No 1 Folk album of the year in The Guardian.
Her album The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience (released October 2022, Topic Records) is a work of re-storying. The historic Black presence in the UK dates back to at least Roman times, yet is often hidden,forgotten or unacknowledged. The populations of enslaved African people and their descendants in the USA have their bodies of folk song, which are vitally important for containing histories, expressing feelings, giving voice and claiming presence… but the Black ancestors of the UK have no equivalent body of song. The Sorrow Songs begins to address this. It is a gift to the forgotten Black ancestors of these islands, and to the folk community heretoday. The album uses history and imagination to tell stories of UK Black ancestors in the sonic style of UK traditional and folk music.What is the Haunted Landscapes conference?
Find out more about the conferences produced in association with Falmouth University’s Dark Economies Research Group here.
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Morrison, A. (2023) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 1 October 2023. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.24226096
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What's the episode about?In this episode, hear Ru Callender discuss funerals, radical undertaking, eco-funerals, green undertaking, bereavement, grief and loss.
Who is Ru?
Ru Callender is author of the book What Remains? Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking.
He was moved to become an undertaker through his experience of bereavement and its aftermath.
He spent much of his childhood in the hospice where his mother worked, and the caring humanistic philosophy of the hospice movement is central to his work.
He opened The Green Funeral Company with Claire in 2000 and the company is now among the country’s best-known eco-friendly funeral directors.
In 2012, they won Joint Best Funeral Director at the first Good Funeral Awards and were described as ‘The best undertakers of all time, by a country mile’ by Good Funeral Guide author, Charles Cowling. Ru and Claire spoke at TEDx Totnes on death, grief, ritual and radical funerals. In 2021, Claire left the company and Ru continues with a new colleague.
Callender,b Phillips, Cauty & Drummond: Undertakers to the Underworld was established as a partnership between The Green Funeral Company and The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (KLF) in 2017.
Find out more at Ru’s website here.
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Callender, R. (2023) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox,B. and Visser, R. Published 1 September 2023. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.24071724
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What's the episode about?
Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes on horror studies, the Gothic, graveyards and death, body horror, horror and trauma, film, TV and English Literature and experiencing a transient ischaemic attack, plus highlights from the Death Online Research Symposium (DORS) conference 2023!
Who is Xavier?
Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes is Reader in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University, co-director of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies and, since 2022, co-president of the International Gothic Association.
His books include Gothic Cinema (Routledge, 2020), Twenty-First-Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion (Edinburgh University Press, co-editedwith Maisha Wester, 2019), Horror Film and Affect (Routledge, 2016), Horror: A Literary History (British Library Publishing, 2016) and Body Gothic (Universityof Wales Press, 2014).
Xavier is chief editor of the international academic book series ‘Horror Studies’ and a founding member of the Horror Studies special interest group of the BritishAssociation of Film, Television and Screen Studies.
He is currently working on the forthcoming edited collection Graveyard Gothic (Manchester University Press) and on a new monograph entitled Contemporary Body Horror on Page and Screen (Cambridge University Press).
Although by no means a thanatologist, Xavier has strong interests in adjacent areas.
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Aldana Reyes, X. (2023) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 2 August 2023. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.23823135
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In this episode, hear Professor Tony Walter at the 2023 University of Bath CDAS conference on innovation, climate and ecological emergency, mass mortality, grief, loss and social change, as well as highlights from the conference!
Who is Tony?
Tony Walter is a sociologist and Emeritus Professor of Death Studies at the University of Bath, UK. His most recent books are Death in the ModernWorld (2020) and What Death Means Now (2017). Many of his articles have concerned various channels through which the living encounter the dead – not only spiritualist mediums, but also angels, social media, dark tourism, human remains in museums, music, ancestor veneration, and memory. He is currently writing about mortality in the age of the climate and ecological crisis.
What is CDAS?
CDAS is an internationally recognised research centre focusing on the interdisciplinary social aspects of death, dying and bereavement at the University of Bath. https://www.bath.ac.uk/research-centres/centre-for-death-society/
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Walter, T. (2023) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 2 July 2023. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.23615262
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Dr. Caroline Bennett on the Cambodian Genocide, mass graves, the Khmer Rouge regime, the identification of bodies, DNA identification, human remains, genocide research, anthropology, ethnography, notions of haunting, karma, post-genocide and getting involved in research into genocide.
Caroline Bennett is a socio-cultural anthropologist, who works on the Cambodian genocide, with a particular focus on mass graves and their dead, and relationships to, and the politics of, those dead in contemporary Cambodia. She also works on the treatment of human remains after mass death, research emerging from her previous training as a forensic anthropologist, and short experience working on forensic humanitarian projects in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Iraq.
As well as being an anthropologist, Caroline is an advisory board member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and between December 2021 and August this year, she was Director of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Prevention of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, in the UK parliament. She holds a BSc in Anthropology (University College London), MSc in Forensic Anthropology (Bradford University), MA in Visual Anthropology (University of Kent), and a PhD in Social Anthropology (University of Kent).
She is currently a Lecturer in Social Anthropology, with a focus on Human Rights, at the University of Sussex, UK, and an Associate Research fellow at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
To cite this episode, you can use the following citation:
Bennett, C. (2023) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 1 June 2023. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.23309723
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