This open access book focuses on migrant and minority cemetery needs through the conceptual lens of the mobilities of the living and the dead. In doing so, the book brings migration and mobility ...studies into much-needed dialogue with death studies to explore the symbolically and politically important issue of culturally inclusive spaces of cemeteries and crematoria for migrants and established minorities. The book addresses majority and minority cemetery and crematoria provisions and practices in a range of North West European contexts. It describes how the planning, management and use of cemeteries and crematoria in multicultural societies can tell us about the everyday lived experiences of migration and migrant heritage, urban diversity, social inclusion and exclusion in Europe, and how these relate to migrant and minority experience of lived citizenship, practices of territoriality and bordering, colonial/postcolonial narratives. The book will be of interest to readers in the fields of migration/mobilities studies and death studies, as well as policy makers and practitioners, such as local government officers, cemetery managers and city planners.
This article presents an analysis of the tombstones in the Trnovac cemetery of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The studied area was characterized with an emphasis on the features of the local cultural ...borderland and the history of the city. The text also includes the description of the study and its results. The aim of the presented analysis was to indicate departures from the expected state which result from the characteristics of this borderland, and to attempt to explain them. The importance of the cemetery as a source of information was also emphasized.
Se centrant sur le premier entretien et en écho aux deux fils rouges qui sous-tendent l’ensemble des articles – l’analyse constante du contre-transfert et la nécessité d’un tiers externe bien réel ...dans le traitement des pathologies les plus graves – l’auteur montre qu’il ne suffit pas de s’en tenir aux représentations que nous nous faisons du patient, mais qu’il importe de s’enquérir de sa conception de ses problèmes et de comment il anticipe l’aide du psychanalyste. Si la « théorie thérapeutique » du patient diffère de ce que nous pensons lui proposer, il convient de le lui expliquer brièvement et de lui permettre d’y réfléchir hors de notre présence. Le but est de lui indiquer que nous ne nous plaçons pas dans un rapport où un thérapeute prescrit un traitement à un malade, mais que nous lui offrons une relation de collaboration. Ceci permet le plus souvent d’éviter des interruptions prématurées trop fréquentes, certes décevantes pour le thérapeute, mais surtout néfastes pour les patients.
In various parts of the Islamic world over the past decades virulent attacks have targeted Islamic funeral and sacral architecture. Rather than being random acts of vandalism, these are associated ...with the idea of performing one's religious duty as attested to in the Salafi/Wahhabi tradition and texts. Graves, shrines and tombs are regarded by some Muslims as having the potential to tempt a believer to polytheism. Hence the duty to level the graves to the ground (taswiyat al-qub?r).
In illuminating the ideology behind these acts, this book explains the current destruction of graves in the Islamic world and traces the ideological sources of iconoclasm in their historical perspective, from medieval theological and legal debates to contemporary Islamist movements including ISIS.
Perhaps America's best environmental idea was not the national park but the garden cemetery, a use of space that quickly gained popularity in the mid-nineteenth century. Such spaces of repose brought ...key elements of the countryside into rapidly expanding cities, making nature accessible to all and serving to remind visitors of the natural cycles of life. In this unique interdisciplinary blend of historical narrative, cultural criticism, and poignant memoir, Aaron Sachs argues that American cemeteries embody a forgotten landscape tradition that has much to teach us in our current moment of environmental crisis.
Until the trauma of the Civil War, many Americans sought to shape society into what they thought of as an Arcadia-not an Eden where fruit simply fell off the tree, but a public garden that depended on an ethic of communal care, and whose sense of beauty and repose related directly to an acknowledgement of mortality and limitation. Sachs explores the notion of Arcadia in the works of nineteenth-century nature writers, novelists, painters, horticulturists, landscape architects, and city planners, and holds up for comparison the twenty-first century's-and his own-tendency toward denial of both death and environmental limits. His far-reaching insights suggest new possibilities for the environmental movement today and new ways of understanding American history.
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