Special issue introduction

Burial and the politics of dead bodies in times of Covid-19

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ID4531381
AutoresG D Willis (0000-0002-1870-559X, University of Cambridge), Finn Stepputat (0000-0003-3011-989X, Danish Institute for International Studies), Gaëlle Clavandier (0000-0002-1936-1995, Triangle : Action, Discours, Pensée politique et économique, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume7
Fascículo2
Páginas4-18
Data de publicação2021-11-25
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHuman Remains and Violence An Interdisciplinary Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2054-2240 • E-ISSN: 2054-2240
EditoraManchester University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.7227/hrv.7.2.2
OpenAlexW3217441294
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas12

This article considers how the reburial and commemoration of the human remains of the Republican defeated during the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) is affected by the social, scientific and political context in which the exhumations occur. Focusing on a particular case in the southwestern region of Extremadura, it considers how civil society groups administer reburial acts when a positive identification through DNA typing cannot be attained. In so doing, the article examines how disparate desires and memories come together in collective reburial of partially individuated human remains

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Archaeology · Biology · Civil society · Pathology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Medicine · Ecology · Virology