Leonie Kellaher
Biographic Data
| ID | 91603 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leonie Kellaher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leonie |
| FAMILY NAME | Kellaher |
| SIGNATURE | KELLAHER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | London Metropolitan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Secret Cemetery
Burial sites have long been recognized as a way to understand past civilizations. Yet, the meanings of our present day cemeteries have been virtually ignored, even though they reveal much about our cultures. Exploring an extraordinarily diverse range of memorial practice - Greek Orthodox, Muslim, Jewish, Roman Catholic and Anglican, as well as the unchurched - The Secret Cemetery is an intriguing study of what these places of death mean to the li…
Secret Cemetery
Kensington Gardens: From Royal Park to Temporary Cemetery
This chapter suggests how the public displays of mourning following the death of Princess Diana might be viewed within the context of mourning behaviour in contemporary cemeteries. It offers an interpretation of how the eighteenth-century Kensington Garden landscape was so readily translated into a 'landscape of mourning', which both gave to and also gained from the significance of this historic landscape. The linkage of death and the garden was …
The Dynamics of Cemetery Landscapes
The Myth of an afterlife: The case against life after death
Mortality readers would probably agree with the editors of this hefty volume that across all cultures and over time societies have shown strong concerns and interests as to what may lie beyond this
Option recognition’ in later life: Variations in ageing in place
During the 1970s, American gerontologist M. Powell Lawton and colleagues saw the person–environment system as fundamental to defining the quality of later life. They proposed the environmental docility hypothesis that weighed whether the more competent the person, the less dependent they are on environmental circumstances. This work was later advanced to show that environmental pro-activity, including adaptation, could reinforce control and auton…
La crémation et le devenir des cendres
Dans nos sociétés laïques, de plus en plus de personnes choisissent de se charger de toute une série de décisions concernant les cendres de leurs défunts. Actuellement, au Royaume-Uni où la législation est très permissive, près de 250 000 urnes sont retirées des crématoriums chaque année. À partir d'une enquête menée auprès de particuliers et de professionnels, les auteurs interrogent l'apparition de ces nouveaux processus rituels dans quatre vil…
Of Grief and Well-being: Competing Conceptions of Restorative Ritualization
Informants' accounts of what they did with ashes they had chosen to remove from UK crematoria described disposal and memorialization strategies that have implications for anthropological understanding of issues of well-being, and the generation of new ritual practices. Here we aim to explore informants' conceptions of how well-being might be restored after a bereavement and how these were being put into practice. Data were gathered as part of an …
Blowing in the wind? Identity, materiality, and the destinations of human ashes
This article asks whether the recent UK-based practice of removing ashes from crematoria has led to entirely new, innovative rituals of disposal, or whether contemporary practice is an appropriation of late nineteenth-century Romantic values and beliefs. Drawing on findings from a major empirical study among both professionals and lay people involved in the removal of ashes, it explores the potentiality of ash remains as a mobile material residue…
Private Lives in Public Places: Research-based Critique of Residential Life in Local Authority Old People's Homes
Public Order and Private Lives is a radical examination of the political forces which shape the law and order debate in Britain. Mike Brake and Chris Hale provide a hard-hitting analysis of Conservative policies on Crime, showing that, ironically, Conservative policies have created the very social conditions in which crime has flourished. They argue that the government is undermining basic civil liberties by its increased use of legislation as a …
In the shadow of the traditional grave
This article draws on data from a qualitative study of the destinations of ashes now being removed in increasing numbers from crematoria, the practice of cremation, and particularly the private disposal of ashes outside crematoria. 1 1 We are grateful to the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) for their support with this project (Environments of memory: New rituals of mourning and their social and emotional implications). It explores the ca…
The diversity and welfare of older migrants in Europe
This paper sets the scene and provides a conceptual framework for the articles in this special issue. They present the findings of research on European residents who have reached or are on the threshold of old age and whose current circumstances have been strongly influenced by a migration across an international border. Such ‘older migrants’ are scattered throughout Europe and they have especially diverse characteristics. They include some of th…
Sustaining cemeteries: The user perspective
Burial sites have been a long-standing focus for cross-cultural research. The cemetery activities and dispositions of people who visit and tend graves in urban, Western society have not, however, commanded parallel attention. Findings obtained through ethnographic methods at the graveside in six London cemeteries illuminate current cemetery behaviour. While the visitor-or user-perspective is brought into sharp focus to gain first-hand understandi…
The diversity and welfare of older migrants in Europe
This paper sets the scene and provides a conceptual framework for the articles in this special issue. They present the findings of research on European residents who have reached or are on the threshold of old age and whose current circumstances have been strongly influenced by a migration across an international border. Such ‘older migrants’ are scattered throughout Europe and they have especially diverse characteristics. They include some of th…
Option recognition’ in later life: Variations in ageing in place
During the 1970s, American gerontologist M. Powell Lawton and colleagues saw the person–environment system as fundamental to defining the quality of later life. They proposed the environmental docility hypothesis that weighed whether the more competent the person, the less dependent they are on environmental circumstances. This work was later advanced to show that environmental pro-activity, including adaptation, could reinforce control and auton…
Blowing in the wind? Identity, materiality, and the destinations of human ashes
This article asks whether the recent UK-based practice of removing ashes from crematoria has led to entirely new, innovative rituals of disposal, or whether contemporary practice is an appropriation of late nineteenth-century Romantic values and beliefs. Drawing on findings from a major empirical study among both professionals and lay people involved in the removal of ashes, it explores the potentiality of ash remains as a mobile material residue…
Of Grief and Well-being: Competing Conceptions of Restorative Ritualization
Informants' accounts of what they did with ashes they had chosen to remove from UK crematoria described disposal and memorialization strategies that have implications for anthropological understanding of issues of well-being, and the generation of new ritual practices. Here we aim to explore informants' conceptions of how well-being might be restored after a bereavement and how these were being put into practice. Data were gathered as part of an …
Sustaining cemeteries: The user perspective
Burial sites have been a long-standing focus for cross-cultural research. The cemetery activities and dispositions of people who visit and tend graves in urban, Western society have not, however, commanded parallel attention. Findings obtained through ethnographic methods at the graveside in six London cemeteries illuminate current cemetery behaviour. While the visitor-or user-perspective is brought into sharp focus to gain first-hand understandi…
The diversity and welfare of older migrants in Europe
This paper sets the scene and provides a conceptual framework for the articles in this special issue. They present the findings of research on European residents who have reached or are on the threshold of old age and whose current circumstances have been strongly influenced by a migration across an international border. Such ‘older migrants’ are scattered throughout Europe and they have especially diverse characteristics. They include some of th…
Private Lives in Public Places: Research-based Critique of Residential Life in Local Authority Old People's Homes
Public Order and Private Lives is a radical examination of the political forces which shape the law and order debate in Britain. Mike Brake and Chris Hale provide a hard-hitting analysis of Conservative policies on Crime, showing that, ironically, Conservative policies have created the very social conditions in which crime has flourished. They argue that the government is undermining basic civil liberties by its increased use of legislation as a …
In the shadow of the traditional grave
This article draws on data from a qualitative study of the destinations of ashes now being removed in increasing numbers from crematoria, the practice of cremation, and particularly the private disposal of ashes outside crematoria. 1 1 We are grateful to the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) for their support with this project (Environments of memory: New rituals of mourning and their social and emotional implications). It explores the ca…
Blowing in the wind? Identity, materiality, and the destinations of human ashes
This article asks whether the recent UK-based practice of removing ashes from crematoria has led to entirely new, innovative rituals of disposal, or whether contemporary practice is an appropriation of late nineteenth-century Romantic values and beliefs. Drawing on findings from a major empirical study among both professionals and lay people involved in the removal of ashes, it explores the potentiality of ash remains as a mobile material residue…
La crémation et le devenir des cendres
Dans nos sociétés laïques, de plus en plus de personnes choisissent de se charger de toute une série de décisions concernant les cendres de leurs défunts. Actuellement, au Royaume-Uni où la législation est très permissive, près de 250 000 urnes sont retirées des crématoriums chaque année. À partir d'une enquête menée auprès de particuliers et de professionnels, les auteurs interrogent l'apparition de ces nouveaux processus rituels dans quatre vil…
Of Grief and Well-being: Competing Conceptions of Restorative Ritualization
Informants' accounts of what they did with ashes they had chosen to remove from UK crematoria described disposal and memorialization strategies that have implications for anthropological understanding of issues of well-being, and the generation of new ritual practices. Here we aim to explore informants' conceptions of how well-being might be restored after a bereavement and how these were being put into practice. Data were gathered as part of an …
Option recognition’ in later life: Variations in ageing in place
During the 1970s, American gerontologist M. Powell Lawton and colleagues saw the person–environment system as fundamental to defining the quality of later life. They proposed the environmental docility hypothesis that weighed whether the more competent the person, the less dependent they are on environmental circumstances. This work was later advanced to show that environmental pro-activity, including adaptation, could reinforce control and auton…
The Myth of an afterlife: The case against life after death
Mortality readers would probably agree with the editors of this hefty volume that across all cultures and over time societies have shown strong concerns and interests as to what may lie beyond this
The Secret Cemetery
Burial sites have long been recognized as a way to understand past civilizations. Yet, the meanings of our present day cemeteries have been virtually ignored, even though they reveal much about our cultures. Exploring an extraordinarily diverse range of memorial practice - Greek Orthodox, Muslim, Jewish, Roman Catholic and Anglican, as well as the unchurched - The Secret Cemetery is an intriguing study of what these places of death mean to the li…
Secret Cemetery
Kensington Gardens: From Royal Park to Temporary Cemetery
This chapter suggests how the public displays of mourning following the death of Princess Diana might be viewed within the context of mourning behaviour in contemporary cemeteries. It offers an interpretation of how the eighteenth-century Kensington Garden landscape was so readily translated into a 'landscape of mourning', which both gave to and also gained from the significance of this historic landscape. The linkage of death and the garden was …
The Dynamics of Cemetery Landscapes
Sociology (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)