David Prendergast
Biographic Data
| ID | 91604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Prendergast |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Prendergast |
| SIGNATURE | PRENDERGAST D |
| AFFILIATIONS | London Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9071-9566 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Assembling Sociality in Caring Spaces: Culturally Sensitive Robot Deployment During the Pandemic in Residential Care Homes in Ireland and Japan
Can robots help care professionals deliver person-centered care? If so, how? The questions concerning the relationship between care and technology have long been a focus of debate and discussion. The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the development of various technologies and opened the door to trialing products and services that had previously been deemed unsuitable for care settings. Seizing the moment of change, we conducted fieldwork in two …
Technology and Independent Living: The Global Aging Experience Project
The abstract is included in the text
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…
From Elder to Ancestor: Old Age, Death and Inheritance in Modern Korea
This insightful account of the treatment and provision for an ageing population in South Korea is based on intensive fieldwork in the county of Puan, and adds considerably to the literature in what is happening in the fusion between older Korean culture and modern Western individualism. The structure of the book revolves around an analysis of the roles of the individual and family in the evolution of a capitalist Asian society at the start of the…
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…
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 …
From Elder to Ancestor: Old Age, Death and Inheritance in Modern Korea
This insightful account of the treatment and provision for an ageing population in South Korea is based on intensive fieldwork in the county of Puan, and adds considerably to the literature in what is happening in the fusion between older Korean culture and modern Western individualism. The structure of the book revolves around an analysis of the roles of the individual and family in the evolution of a capitalist Asian society at the start of the…
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 …
Technology and Independent Living: The Global Aging Experience Project
The abstract is included in the text
Assembling Sociality in Caring Spaces: Culturally Sensitive Robot Deployment During the Pandemic in Residential Care Homes in Ireland and Japan
Can robots help care professionals deliver person-centered care? If so, how? The questions concerning the relationship between care and technology have long been a focus of debate and discussion. The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the development of various technologies and opened the door to trialing products and services that had previously been deemed unsuitable for care settings. Seizing the moment of change, we conducted fieldwork in two …
Sociology (6 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)