Routledge International Handbook of Queer Death Studies

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This Handbook aims to provide a comprehensive international cartography of Queer Death Studies offering broad in-depth insights into the field and its emergence through tentacular transdisciplinary networking. Taking research and art-making on death dying mourning and afterlife into new directions it explores the multiple effects of contemporary necropolitics and the proliferation of death-worlds during the current period of Earth’s history ‘The Anthropocene’ or ‘the Age of Man’. Informed by queer critical posthumanist decolonial and feminist approaches the Handbook presents a unique variety of both critical and affirmative reflections upon the world’s intersecting necropowers and ethico-political potentials for social and environmental change. Contributors speculate on ways to reimagine life/ death-relations as vibrant entanglements. They also investigate modes of mourning differently resisting necropolitical regimes that deem human and non-human individuals and populations to be disposable and non-grievable when they differ too much from the normative modern subject Universal Man in terms of intersections of gender racialisation class sexuality embodiment embrainment geopolitical positioning or species. A thought provoking read this Handbook is intended for broad global audiences of researchers artists teachers students death-professionals (health)careworkers activists and NGOs interested in tools to rethink and reimagine death dying mourning and afterlife from intersections of queering decolonising posthumanising and feminist perspectives. | Routledge International Handbook of Queer Death Studies