Routledge International Handbook of Queer Death Studies
About this ebook
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.
About the author
Nina Lykke, Dr Phil, Emerita-Professor, Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden, and Honorary Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark, poet, fiction writer, and co- founder of Queer Death Studies Network. Current research focus: death, mourning, continuing bonds with the dead, and cancer ecologies in posthuman, queerfemme-inist, new-materialist, decolonial, eco-critical, and spiritual-material perspectives. A recent monograph is Vibrant Death. A Posthuman Phenomenology of Mourning (2022).
Tara Mehrabi, PhD, senior lecturer, Gender Studies, Karlstad University, Sweden, and co-founder of Queer Death Studies Network. Her research focus is death, mourning, ageing and digitalisation of care through the lens of feminist technoscience studies, intersectionality, posthumanities, and digital humanities. She is co-editor of the edited volume New Materialism and Intersectionality (2024), and has published in journals such as Australian Feminist Studies, NORA, and Women, Gender & Research.
Marietta Radomska, PhD, Docent, is Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities at Linköping University, Sweden; director of The Eco- and Bioart Lab; co- founder of Queer Death Studies Network. She works at the intersection of environmental humanities, continental philosophy, queer death studies, visual culture, contemporary art, and artistic research; and has published in Australian Feminist Studies, Somatechnics, and Environment and Planning E, among others.
