What roles do naming and self-definition play in the liberation or oppression of a people? One might argue that words…
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Political life after death: Racial violence in North Carolina
In recent years, the political and social activity of racialized Muslim American communities is transforming alongside the widening powers of…
No olvidados: Unclaimable bodies of the US-Mexico border
US migration policies are not only intentionally deadly but also are designed to produce ambiguous loss across migrant sending communities.…
Imperial death and belonging in Alexandria, Egypt
Over and again, the stories of Jessie Brown and other foreign nationals of Alexandria demonstrated that death defined the living.…
Facing death alone: Mortuary prospects for the socially solo in Japan
In the face of such unsettlement for the dead, there is much anxiety (fuan) around the issue of mortuary care.…
Covid-19, death, and repatriation in Southern Africa
I argue here that regulations that were set up to prevent the spread of the highly contagious coronavirus have entered…
Dust to dust: A religion of return migration
Below I recount [a] story of death and repatriation in times of Covid-19, not in the voyeuristic manner of mainstream…
Death interrupted: Mourning across borders in the wake of Covid-19
Acknowledging the vast diversity of migratory trajectories around the world, I see important commonalities in the experience of what I…
Ecologies of the dead and living: Mourning out of place
This forum initiates a conversation on the meaning and consequences of death across societies and time periods, drawing together scholars…
A wedding in a cemetery: Judaism, terror, and pandemic
American Jews have no scapegoats or sacrificial lambs to offer in response to Covid-19 nor desire to hold a shvartze…