Disposal of the Dead: Beyond Burial and Cremation

Media, mortality and necro-technologies: Eulogies for dead media

B Nansen, H Gould, M Arnold, M Gibbs

2023-08-01

Working at the intersection of death studies and media studies, this article examines what we can learn from the death of media te..

Robot death care: A study of funerary practice

H Gould, M Arnold, T Kohn, B Nansen, M Gibbs

2021-07-01

Across the globe, human experiences of death, dying, and grief are now shaped by digital technologies and, increasingly, by roboti..

‘Stood to rest’: reorientating necrogeographies for the 21st century

H Gould, M Arnold, T Dupleix, T Kohn

2021-01-01

Human bodies are typically buried underground, horizontally ‘in repose’. To the extent that this orientation has become the standa..

"Adapt or Die": The funeral trade show as a site of institutional anxiety

Luke Van Ryn, Bjorn Nansen, Martin Gibbs

2019-06-11

Funeral directors shot themselves in the foot over cremation, and cemeteries got splattered with the blood.

Embracing and Distancing the Materiality of Death through Cremation

Michael Arnold

2019-06-11

This book provides a critical overview of the changing ways people mourn, commemorate and interact with the remains of the dead, i..

Managing the consumption of death and digital media: The funeral director as market intermediary

Luke van Ryn, James Meese, Michael Arnold, Bjorn Nansen, Martin Gibbs, Tamara Kohn

2019-01-01

A growing number of companies are offering digital products and services for use in funerals. Drawing on interdisciplinary researc..

Residues of Death: Disposal Refigured

2019-01-01

This book provides a critical overview of the changing ways people mourn, commemorate and interact with the remains of the dead, i..

The disposition of the destitute

Michael Arnold, Bjorn Nansen, Tamara Kohn, Martin Gibbs, Hannah Harewood Gould

2019-01-01

The final disposition is a term used by people in the funeral industry to refer to the burial or cremation of a dead person. The f..