Deathscapes in diaspora
Contesting Space and Negotiating Home in Contexts of Post-Migration Diversity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3977812 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Hunter (0000-0001-9282-8478, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 247-261 |
| Publication date | 2016-02-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14649365.2015.1059472 |
| OpenAlex | W1853956287 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 52 |
| References cited | 21 |
The literature on deathscapes has thus far neglected the diversity of mortuary practices resulting from the inherently spatial phenomenon of migration and the increased capacity for transnational activities linking migrant communities with places of origin. Against this sedentarist bias, this article proposes that the end of life is a critical juncture in the settlement process for diasporic communities. On the one hand, practices such as posthumous repatriation may serve to reinforce shared perceptions of temporary presence in host countries. On the other hand, death may be the occasion to lay what are perhaps the deepest foundations for home-making in diaspora, through funeral rituals and memorialisation. However, these latter claims to space in adopted homelands may also be the object of legal and political contestation, as demonstrated through an analysis of disputes in the UK over open-air Hindu funeral pyres and planning permission for a Muslim cemetery. What is at stake is the legitimate symbolic re-inscription of space. As such, diasporic deathscapes are an exemplary site of contestation and negotiation between migrant place-making practices and the domesticating urges of governmental subjects
Deportation · Diaspora · Diversity (politics · Immigration · Media studies · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Repatriation · Settlement (finance · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
‘The dead have given up on us’. Space, the dead and morality in contemporary rural Muslim Bosnia
Introduction
Undoing Nothing
Mapping a Mobile and Embodied Grief
“From House to Funeral Home”
Le cimetière multiconfessionnel de Bruxelles
Spaces of afterlife
Hindu Mobilities and Cremation
Introduction
As cartografias críticas das migrações
Negotiating Moral Authority for Body Repatriation
It is the greenness, the nature, it looks as if someone has taken care of the place very well
Securing a place for death
Muslim burial practices and Belgian legislation and regulations
Urban cemeteries’ potential as sites for cultural encounters
Temporalities of cemeteries
God’s land is vast”. Attitudes and practices of Moroccan Muslims regarding burial and repatriation of the deceased
How motivations for natural burial extend notions of the good death
Faire face à la mort en contexte migratoire suisse
Mapping Intimate Geographies of Grief and Loss
Echoes of Loss
Rules, Norms and Practices – A Comparative Study Exploring Disposal Practices and Facilities in Northern Europe
Construire un foyer ukrainien au Portugal
Bereavement from afar
The Transnational Afterlives of European Muslims
Mapping-Ofrenda
Transferring Deceased Bodies, Building Transnational Communities. The Case of Kyrgyz and Tajik Migrants in Russia
Death in the Peripheries
La circulation des morts, l’ancrage des corps et le deuil sans frontières
Intersections of (infra)structural violence and cultural inclusion
Photographing absence in deathscapes
Mobilities in Life and Death
Diverse teams researching diversity
Mapping nature burial in the Netherlands (2003–2023)
Unclaimed and unclaimable deaths
Cross-border affinities
Home‐Making Through Deathscapes or How to Circumvent the Contradictions of Nationalism
My own business, not my children's
Interacting with the dead
Terrorscapes of desova
Pandemic-induced deathscapes
Migration and mobilities
And now the end is near
Does Place Matter? Burial Decisions of Muslims in Canada
Sensory Dislocation and Transnational Ties
Accommodating Islamophobia
Ancient history and new beginnings
They Have Different Ways of Doing Things
My soul stills hurts
Staking a Claim to Land, Faith and Family
Long Farewell
Ruling from the Grave? The Political Instrumentalization of Robert Mugabe's Corpse in Contemporary Zimbabwean Politics
The myth of return
The political lives of dead bodies
Death and the Regeneration of Life
Modernity and Self-Identity
We do have space in Lausanne. We have a large cemetery’
The construction and destruction of a colonial landscape
Roadside Memorials
Deathscapes
Corpses, dead body politics and agency in human geography
Cemetaries and Columbaria, Memorials and Mausoleums
Locating processes of identification
Burying the dead
Media constructions of dying alone
The Spatial Imaginary of National Practices
The mosque in the suburbs
Diasporas in Modern Societies
Representing the City
The case of the disorderly graves
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Home-Town
The study of transnationalism
| Unique citing works | 52 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 50 |