Hans Hadders
Biographic Data
| ID | 213283 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hans Hadders |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hans |
| FAMILY NAME | Hadders |
| SIGNATURE | HADDERS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4515-2780 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Resisting the commodification of cremation practice at an urban crematorium in Nepal
In recent decades, scholars have highlighted that haphazard urbanisation, changing family structures, economic factors, environmental issues, and cremation capacity constraints in densely populated urban settings have driven the adoption of energy-efficient cremation technologies, such as electric crematoria and improved wooden pyres in Nepal. While these technologies have simplified rituals, studies also indicate that they have eroded community …
Covid-19 corpse management in Nepal
Death causes considerable contagion and is fraught with potential danger for Nepali mourners. The main purpose of cremation ritual practice at Pashupati crematorium is to purify and free the soul from the body to secure the transition of the soul to another realm, and subsequently as an ancestor. It is the family's obligation to facilitate a safe journey and to turn the deceased into a benign ancestor instead of a haunting ghost. Since the first …
Temple eye banking
In high-income countries where eye care is advanced, cornea harvesting is hidden from public view. Here entire eyeball enucleations performed on corpses are done in hospital morgues without mourners’ presence. For the last two decades, the traditional public crematorium area next to the Pashupatinath temple at the holy river Bagmati east of Kathmandu, has become a major Nepal Eye Bank site for motivated cornea donations. To be cremated in the pre…
Hindu urn burial in Norway
Is open pyre cremation and ash dispersion in running water the universal default disposal for Hindus? Images of open pyre cremation and ash dispersion at the banks of the river Ganges still perpetuate our popular Orientalist perceptions of Hindu disposal; an ancient, exotic and unchanging traditional practice. However, such perceptions obscure the empirical reality. Hindu funeral practice in South Asia as well as in diaspora, have been in constan…
Establishment of electric crematorium in Nepal
Traditionally cremations in Nepal are performed with open pyres. These cremations are fluid public events organised and managed by relatives, local communities and ritual specialists. Traditional cremation practices are full of cosmological, eschatological and soteriological significance. The main purpose of the cremation practice is to purify and free the soul from the body of the deceased in order to secure a rebirth in another realm, render th…
Cremation in Norway
In this article, I explore the development of modern cremation and cremation events in Norway. I focus on the multiple ontologies of cremation events and the relationships between the living mourners and the dead during the gradual transformation of the social person within Christian, secular as well as Hindu traditions in Norway. Within Christian tradition, this is a linear process that I intentionally contrast with the predominantly cyclical pr…
Negotiating Leave-Taking Events in the Palliative Medicine Unit
In this article I explore the importance staff and relatives give to patients' social identity at the time of dying, death, and leave-taking in a palliative medical unit in Norway. I employ Timmermans' concept of death brokering and show how various patient identities are used to broker and negotiate the timing, content, and form of leave-taking events. In their end-of-life care, nurses strive to accommodate relatives and support them in their gr…
Enacting death in the intensive care unit
This article explores various ways health personnel enact death in connection with mechanical ventilation treatment withdrawal in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Trondheim University Hospital. The main focus is on sedated terminal patients who undergo mechanical ventilator treatment withdrawal and relatives' presence at this time. Mol's (2002) praxiographic orientation of the actor-network approach is followed while exploring this medical practi…
Dealing with the dead patient at the intensive care unit
The way of dealing with the dead patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) seems to be intimately tied to social identity and personal integrity. The safeguarding of the integrity of the human body is the baseline for the nurses' post-mortem care at any time. Throughout post-mortem care, nurses oscillate between poles of proximity and distance to the dead patient, experienced alternately as a sentient person or an inanimate body. By washing and ca…
Enacting death in the intensive care unit
This article explores various ways health personnel enact death in connection with mechanical ventilation treatment withdrawal in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Trondheim University Hospital. The main focus is on sedated terminal patients who undergo mechanical ventilator treatment withdrawal and relatives' presence at this time. Mol's (2002) praxiographic orientation of the actor-network approach is followed while exploring this medical practi…
Dealing with the dead patient at the intensive care unit
The way of dealing with the dead patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) seems to be intimately tied to social identity and personal integrity. The safeguarding of the integrity of the human body is the baseline for the nurses' post-mortem care at any time. Throughout post-mortem care, nurses oscillate between poles of proximity and distance to the dead patient, experienced alternately as a sentient person or an inanimate body. By washing and ca…
Enacting death in the intensive care unit
This article explores various ways health personnel enact death in connection with mechanical ventilation treatment withdrawal in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Trondheim University Hospital. The main focus is on sedated terminal patients who undergo mechanical ventilator treatment withdrawal and relatives' presence at this time. Mol's (2002) praxiographic orientation of the actor-network approach is followed while exploring this medical practi…
Negotiating Leave-Taking Events in the Palliative Medicine Unit
In this article I explore the importance staff and relatives give to patients' social identity at the time of dying, death, and leave-taking in a palliative medical unit in Norway. I employ Timmermans' concept of death brokering and show how various patient identities are used to broker and negotiate the timing, content, and form of leave-taking events. In their end-of-life care, nurses strive to accommodate relatives and support them in their gr…
Cremation in Norway
In this article, I explore the development of modern cremation and cremation events in Norway. I focus on the multiple ontologies of cremation events and the relationships between the living mourners and the dead during the gradual transformation of the social person within Christian, secular as well as Hindu traditions in Norway. Within Christian tradition, this is a linear process that I intentionally contrast with the predominantly cyclical pr…
Establishment of electric crematorium in Nepal
Traditionally cremations in Nepal are performed with open pyres. These cremations are fluid public events organised and managed by relatives, local communities and ritual specialists. Traditional cremation practices are full of cosmological, eschatological and soteriological significance. The main purpose of the cremation practice is to purify and free the soul from the body of the deceased in order to secure a rebirth in another realm, render th…
Hindu urn burial in Norway
Is open pyre cremation and ash dispersion in running water the universal default disposal for Hindus? Images of open pyre cremation and ash dispersion at the banks of the river Ganges still perpetuate our popular Orientalist perceptions of Hindu disposal; an ancient, exotic and unchanging traditional practice. However, such perceptions obscure the empirical reality. Hindu funeral practice in South Asia as well as in diaspora, have been in constan…
Temple eye banking
In high-income countries where eye care is advanced, cornea harvesting is hidden from public view. Here entire eyeball enucleations performed on corpses are done in hospital morgues without mourners’ presence. For the last two decades, the traditional public crematorium area next to the Pashupatinath temple at the holy river Bagmati east of Kathmandu, has become a major Nepal Eye Bank site for motivated cornea donations. To be cremated in the pre…
Covid-19 corpse management in Nepal
Death causes considerable contagion and is fraught with potential danger for Nepali mourners. The main purpose of cremation ritual practice at Pashupati crematorium is to purify and free the soul from the body to secure the transition of the soul to another realm, and subsequently as an ancestor. It is the family's obligation to facilitate a safe journey and to turn the deceased into a benign ancestor instead of a haunting ghost. Since the first …
Resisting the commodification of cremation practice at an urban crematorium in Nepal
In recent decades, scholars have highlighted that haphazard urbanisation, changing family structures, economic factors, environmental issues, and cremation capacity constraints in densely populated urban settings have driven the adoption of energy-efficient cremation technologies, such as electric crematoria and improved wooden pyres in Nepal. While these technologies have simplified rituals, studies also indicate that they have eroded community …
Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (8 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Organ Donation and Transplantation (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works)