Building on embodied and de‐colonial approaches to geopolitics, this paper examines the relationship between forms of governance in municipal cemetery crematorium provision needs established minorities, arguing that inadequate infrastructure services can constitute harm. Crucially, it is contended impact not only living, but also perceptions wellbeing dead. Grounded a study four towns England Wales, identifies firstly how intersectional identity fundamentally shapes people’s experiences...

Natural burial has become a popular practice in the 21st century. Initially developed UK, this since spread to various countries. Despite its growing adoption, comprehensive academic studies exploring country-specific governance, cultural meanings, and developmental trajectories of natural remain scarce. Specifically for Netherlands, there is notable absence systematic research detailing development current state burial, or 'nature burial', as it understood practiced within context. This...

People continue relationships with their dead in a variety of ways. Since the 1990s, idea 'continuing bonds' has provided framework for exploring and understanding post-mortem relationships. However, dynamics bonds between living have received little attention. By looking at intersection things, practices spaces, this paper demonstrates that expressions continuing do not always point to continuity, indeed can signify discontinuity. It explores 'transforming recently bereaved deceased...

“Deathscapes” constitute a growing field of research, yet the topic remains widely neglected within urban planning. In this paper, we examine adequacy existing provision for death, remembrance, and disposal body ethnic minority groups living in four British towns: Huddersfield, Newport, Northampton, Swindon. We show how needs are routinely peripheralized through lack acknowledgment diverse cultural religious needs. The paper argues that failure contemporary planning policy practice to...

Fieldwork encounters are not only contingent to biographical subjectivities, but mediated by a confluence of identity, place and embodiment. This paper offers reflexive accounts researchers with various socio-cultural disciplinary backgrounds, who collaborated as team examine the varied funerary experiences needs established minorities recent migrants in England Wales. Focusing on researchers’ personal death bereavement their performances minority majority ethnic migrant identities,...

In this paper we explore migrants' and minorities' memories memory-making associated with death, funerary remembrance practices, particular attention to how intersects experiences of migration and/or being part a cultural or religious minority. The examines different spaces including bodies, homes, translocal networks, cemeteries crematoria, centred on insights from focus groups, biographical key participant interviews in four medium sized multicultural towns England Wales. These case...

This article explores cremation and disposal practices in the Netherlands, focusing on attitudes experiences of bereaved Dutch people relation to cremated remains. In academic professional narratives, human ashes are commonly described as "important," "sacred," a vehicle continue intense physical relationships with dead. Based quantitative qualitative data this illustrates ambiguity such relationships. It highlights diverse experiences, unexpected challenges, moral obligations that can be...

This paper shows how the human corpse can function as an aesthetic-therapeutic for deceased, bereaved and death care professionals. It understands a liminal entity that is characterised by specific materiality, biography self-referentiality. Because of these attributes be employed professionals in response to death. On basis participant observation industry qualitative interviews with people funeral Netherlands, discusses four engagements dead body period prior funeral: i) caring, ii)...

Troyer’s Technologies of the Human Corpse explores human relationships with dead bodies from nineteenth century embalming techniques to contemporary transhumanist ideals and tissue transactions. It...

In the Netherlands, a growing number of spiritual care givers are working without being endorsed by any church or worldview organization. Since 2015, these non-denominational can undergo an assessment their “spiritual competence” on top Master’s degree in Spiritual Care, which leads to mandate this area. This enables them obtain full membership professional Association Caregivers Netherlands (Vereniging van Geestelijk VerZorgers, VGVZ), from they previously were excluded. The VGVZ seeks...

Samenvatting van: B.M.H.P. Mathijssen: Making Sense of Death. Ritual Practices and Situational Beliefs the Recently Bereaved in Netherlands. Date defense: June 28, 2017, Radboud University, Nijmegen,