Adela Toplean
Biographic Data
| ID | 3562147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adela Toplean |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adela |
| FAMILY NAME | Toplean |
| SIGNATURE | TOPLEAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bucharest |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8878-1830 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The glocalization of death in the digital age
This perspective article explores the interplay between death and glocalization in digitally saturated societies. The central question driving our perspective is how societal responses to death reflect and inform the process of glocalization within the context of increasing digital connectivity. In this study, we discuss that societal response to death provides a unique perspective on how global digital trends intersect with deep-seated beliefs a…
Living and dying on the edge in the digital age. An interview with Andrei Vieru on why closure and boundaries matter in science, art, and life
This conversation elaborates on the latest work of the Paris-based writer, philosopher, translator, mathematician and pianist Andrei Vieru, where he maintains that human freedom is inseparable from the idea of closure. Vieru's model is rooted in the topological semantics of modal logic and provides valuable epistemological insights for the broader community of scholars (death and grief scholars, social scientists, humanists) as well as for policy…
Global Digital Death and Glocal Dying
This paper discusses the possibilities of using theories of glocalisation for understanding national differences in death ways, in times when global digital technologies play a growing role in how individuals and societies respond to severe crises. How people approach death is influenced by personal needs and values, unfolding within a thick framework of significance. Romania is a revealing example: what it is locally relevant is not unproblemati…
Socio-Phenomenological Reflections on What Digital Death Brings and Denies in Terms of Relational Experiences to Orthodox Romanians
Informed by Alfred Schütz's phenomenology of social relations and its recent developments addressing online relationality, this essay reflects on the differences between online and offline death-related experiences in contemporary Romania. In Orthodox death cultures, religious, social, and familial bonds overlap. Orthodox Christianity is sceptical about body-mind separation and values unmediated liturgical communities. It is, thus, pertinent to a…
To resist or to embrace social death? Photographs of couples on Romanian gravestones
This paper examines how a small-scale Transylvanian community uses the traditional practice of family photographs on gravestones to deal with survivors’ social degradation. This practice can both affirm social death and mitigate it, depending on the survivor's will and ability to make an extra-effort to restore the tie with the deceased. Although substantial religious commitment is not necessary to engage in this practice, tie maintenance results…
Socio-Phenomenological Reflections on What Digital Death Brings and Denies in Terms of Relational Experiences to Orthodox Romanians
Informed by Alfred Schütz's phenomenology of social relations and its recent developments addressing online relationality, this essay reflects on the differences between online and offline death-related experiences in contemporary Romania. In Orthodox death cultures, religious, social, and familial bonds overlap. Orthodox Christianity is sceptical about body-mind separation and values unmediated liturgical communities. It is, thus, pertinent to a…
Global Digital Death and Glocal Dying
This paper discusses the possibilities of using theories of glocalisation for understanding national differences in death ways, in times when global digital technologies play a growing role in how individuals and societies respond to severe crises. How people approach death is influenced by personal needs and values, unfolding within a thick framework of significance. Romania is a revealing example: what it is locally relevant is not unproblemati…
To resist or to embrace social death? Photographs of couples on Romanian gravestones
This paper examines how a small-scale Transylvanian community uses the traditional practice of family photographs on gravestones to deal with survivors’ social degradation. This practice can both affirm social death and mitigate it, depending on the survivor's will and ability to make an extra-effort to restore the tie with the deceased. Although substantial religious commitment is not necessary to engage in this practice, tie maintenance results…
To resist or to embrace social death? Photographs of couples on Romanian gravestones
This paper examines how a small-scale Transylvanian community uses the traditional practice of family photographs on gravestones to deal with survivors’ social degradation. This practice can both affirm social death and mitigate it, depending on the survivor's will and ability to make an extra-effort to restore the tie with the deceased. Although substantial religious commitment is not necessary to engage in this practice, tie maintenance results…
Socio-Phenomenological Reflections on What Digital Death Brings and Denies in Terms of Relational Experiences to Orthodox Romanians
Informed by Alfred Schütz's phenomenology of social relations and its recent developments addressing online relationality, this essay reflects on the differences between online and offline death-related experiences in contemporary Romania. In Orthodox death cultures, religious, social, and familial bonds overlap. Orthodox Christianity is sceptical about body-mind separation and values unmediated liturgical communities. It is, thus, pertinent to a…
The glocalization of death in the digital age
This perspective article explores the interplay between death and glocalization in digitally saturated societies. The central question driving our perspective is how societal responses to death reflect and inform the process of glocalization within the context of increasing digital connectivity. In this study, we discuss that societal response to death provides a unique perspective on how global digital trends intersect with deep-seated beliefs a…
Living and dying on the edge in the digital age. An interview with Andrei Vieru on why closure and boundaries matter in science, art, and life
This conversation elaborates on the latest work of the Paris-based writer, philosopher, translator, mathematician and pianist Andrei Vieru, where he maintains that human freedom is inseparable from the idea of closure. Vieru's model is rooted in the topological semantics of modal logic and provides valuable epistemological insights for the broader community of scholars (death and grief scholars, social scientists, humanists) as well as for policy…
Global Digital Death and Glocal Dying
This paper discusses the possibilities of using theories of glocalisation for understanding national differences in death ways, in times when global digital technologies play a growing role in how individuals and societies respond to severe crises. How people approach death is influenced by personal needs and values, unfolding within a thick framework of significance. Romania is a revealing example: what it is locally relevant is not unproblemati…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Media, Religion, Digital Communication (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)