Risk, mourning, politics

Toward a transnational critical conception of grief for Covid-19 deaths in Iran

Bibliographic Data

ID2306236
AuthorsZohreh Bayatrizi (0000-0002-3729-0377, University of Alberta, corresponding author), Hajar Ghorbani (Institute of Anthropology and Culture, Iran), Reza Taslimi Tehrani (0000-0002-4413-8410, Research Center for Culture, Art and Communication, Iran)
Year2021
Volume69
Issue4
Pages512-528
Publication date2021-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCurrent Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0011-3921 • E-ISSN: 1461-7064
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00113921211007153
OpenAlexW3166531612
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited24

This article examines the case of COVID-19 deaths and grief in Iran in order to shed light on how the biological, social and political 'risks of contagion' combine to impact mourning and grief. As a contagious biological agent, the novel coronavirus causes people to suffer, die and grieve alone. But this loneliness is deepened due to social stigma and political abandonment. Conceptually guided by Mary Douglas's work on the socio-cultural and political constructions of 'contagion', Judith Butler's notion of 'ungrievable lives' and Kenneth Doka's concept of 'disenfranchised grief', the authors of this article have undertaken a preliminary mixed-methods study that explores the possibility of a transnational, decolonial understanding of grief in a time of contagion

Abandonment (legal) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Criminology · Disenfranchised grief · Grief · Loneliness · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Law · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Social Psychology

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