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International Critical Autoethnographic Perspectives on Death -

International Critical Autoethnographic Perspectives on Death

Researcher and Practitioner Insights

Khyati Tripathi, Ian Lamond (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
2026
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-032-16311-0 (ISBN)
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This edited collection offers a distinctive contribution to death studies by foregrounding analytical autoethnographic narratives from researchers and practitioners actively engaged in the field. Unlike works centred on personal bereavement, it explores the emotional and psychological residue left by prolonged scholarly encounters with death, dying, and end-of-life phenomena. The project s uniqueness lies in its multidisciplinary scope, international authorship, and integration of creative artifacts alongside textual analysis. It challenges conventional notions of subjectivity in qualitative research, reframing it as a vital, dialogic presence rather than bias. Contributors reflect on their own affective responses grief, memory, sensory experience while researching death spaces, death work, and the inheritance of death through ritual and conversation. The collection addresses a gap in scholarship by examining how researchers and practitioners are shaped by their fieldwork, offering therapeutic and introspective insights. Its organization around key thematic areas, and its cultural diversity, make it a valuable resource for scholars across disciplines, most notably death studies and (auto)ethnographic research, and anyone seeking to understand the complex interplay of emotion, memory, and research.

Khyati Tripathi is a postdoctoral researcher with the End of Life Care Research Group at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. Her work frames larger discussions on palliative and end of life care, bereavement, and funerary and post-funerary rituals.

Ian R Lamond is an honorary research fellow at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences at Leeuwarden, Netherlands. His interests encompass conceptualising event studies as a post-disciplinary attitude; creative dissent; deviant leisure, and death studies.

Chapter 1 Navigating the autoethnographic terrain in death studies.- Part 1 The Affect of Observing Grief in Others.- Chapter 2 Death-Emotions: The Why, Whether, and Where of Researching Death with Young Children.- Chapter 3 Encountering the dead in anatomy units: Autoethnographic reflections as a methodological tool.- Chapter 4 Connecting to a Photograph: Uncovering the uneasy and emotional challenges of collecting data about the lives of those who have died by suicide.- part 2 The Object of Grief.- Chapter 5 An ode to bone-baby: A Therapeutic autoethnographic account.- Chapter 6 Six months in the morgue and still I rise. An autoethnographic essay.- Chapter 7 Death by poison: Stories of biodiversity loss, animal identities, and grief.- part 3 Death, Grief and the Sociological.- Chapter 8 Lost and found: Memory, loss, grief, and researching dying alone.-   Chapter 9 Lessons for/from a future corpse that my students taught me.- Chapter 10 Being the hero of an autoethnographic story: Experiences of two deaths, two thresholds (Unprecedented challenges in Turkey).- part 4 Cultural Identities of Death and Grief.- Chapter 11 Death of a settler and forgotten rituals of our ancestors.-Chapter 12 Death and I in North India: A third person autoethnography.- Chapter 13 Sarb Katarb' (the ledger) of life and death: Collaborative autoethnographic conversations on acceptance, cultural histories and lived experiences.- part 5  Creative Pathways in the Affect of Grief and Death.- Chapter 14 Listening to fallen leaves An arts-based inquiry into in-betweenness.- Chapter 15 Using fiction, non-fiction, and memoir to tell sociological (death) stories.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 4.5.2026
Zusatzinfo Approx. 305 p. 24 illus.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Schlagworte Autoethnography • death and dying • death studies • Emotions and society • Qualitative research
ISBN-10 3-032-16311-0 / 3032163110
ISBN-13 978-3-032-16311-0 / 9783032163110
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