Governing and securing the territorial volumes of burial

Transformations in the political economy and domestic geopolitics of death

Bibliographic Data

ID13045596
AuthorsCameron Byron (0000-0003-3219-3567, University of Liverpool, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume12
Issue1
Pages31-49
Publication date2022-10-28
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTerritory Politics Governance (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2162-2671 • E-ISSN: 2162-268X
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/21622671.2022.2123032
OpenAlexW4307720034
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited43

This paper explores how transformations in the domestic geopolitics of burial space has produced new logics in respect of property, security and capacity as forms of volumetric and material governance. Focusing on the everyday practices of municipal burial space during the late 19th century in England, this paper builds on feminist political economy approaches to interrogate the emergence of volumetric securitization through transformations in the material politics of burial across a changing socio-technical environment. The volumetric geopolitics of burial shows how embodied experiences and practices of interment illuminate specific class-based death cultures and economies through intimate and affective ecologies of governance. Drawing on examples of two cemeteries located on the Wirral Peninsula during the implementation of the Burial Laws and Amendments Acts (1852–85), this paper looks at how burial volumes are governed, understood, contested and coexist, and the affective and embodied sensibilities that mobilize securitizing behaviours across cemetery space

Corporate governance · Economics · Economy · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Geopolitics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Securitization · Sociology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Law · Sex work and related issues

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