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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Deathscapes"”.
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Memory, Cinema and Deathscapes: Re-membering the Holocaust in Poland
Holocaust memory is at a critical juncture. The intersection of anxieties about survivors and firsthand witnesses growing fewer and frailer, the ever-growing importance and ongoing boom in popular media representations of the Holocaust across the last four decades, and the contemporary threat of …
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Intimate Deathscapes: Examining Alternative Discourses of the Dead Body and Death Care Spaces
… death care spaces, which I refer to as intimate deathscapes. To consider the formation of subjectivities and knowledge production within intimate deathscapes, this thesis examines three autobiographies from death care workers (Doughty, 2014; Nadle, 2006; Wilde, 2017). The authors make compelling …
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Between Violence and Utopia: an ethnography of pedagogy, childhood, and spatial politics in urban Pakistan
… bureaucratisation, and what Mbembe refers to as ‘deathscapes’ (2019). Teachers and children illustrate their desire for self-sacrifice in service of the state, noting that while schooling and quality are significant as a moral regime, they have little impact on their aspirations. These dreams are …