Special issue introduction

What might become visible if our gaze shifted from the human remains of those who met untimely or violent death as the centre of our analytical gaze, to the margins of the scene in which they appear? The ethics, politics and practices provoked by such remains are not limited to the skeletal figure, but expand outward to implicate proximate material forms and human investments. The authors address these liminal material interactions. The authors are less focused on the skeleton or corpse itself, and more on the substances and actors who intrude into, continue after, stand in for, contain 'life' and labour at or affix value to the scene of human remains

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