burial Archives

Essays

A new American way of death

Ruth Toulson | June 26, 2024

Spatial Islamophobia, conflict democracy, and Muslim cemeteries as place-making for the future

Sharmin Sadequee | December 7, 2023

Imperial death and belonging in Alexandria, Egypt

Shana Minkin | September 30, 2021

The commemorative state, human remains, and the question of missing-ness

Riedwaan Moosage, Ciraj Rassool and Nicky Rousseau | August 26, 2021

Ecologies of the dead and living: Mourning out of place

Saarah Jappie and Mona Oraby | August 26, 2021

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