Evocative Autoethnographies of Loss, Grief and Death

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-98003-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives

This international collection of evocative autoethnographic essays explores loss, grief, and death through the lived experiences of professionals and individuals intimately connected to end-of-life events.

The book offers powerful and evocative reflections on how one's encounters with death and dying impact and frame how we approach and accommodate an understanding of loss and grief. The collection draws together critical autoethnographic narratives from several geographical regions and, significantly, communities of practice associated with loss, grief, and the end of life. Key themes include encountering loss, grief, and death through witnessing; the experience of the presence of absence felt as part of loss across diverse spheres (including public, digital, and imaginary spaces); autoethnography as therapy; the inheritance of the ‘memory of death’, through conversation. Each of the four sections in the volume is followed by a brief response by the editors to help the reader comprehend and contextualise the emotional processes of compiling the volume, alongside a sectional qualitative and quantitative content analysis of the chapters.

This is a significant resource for anyone undertaking research, particularly those working in anthropology, critical event studies, death studies, psychology, clinical psychology, and sociology.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lamond, Ian R

Tripathi, Khyati

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Emotion, Motivation, Handlung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Tod, Sterbehilfe: Soziale und Ethische Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Thanatologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Forschungsmethoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Chapter 1: Autoethnographic Insights into Loss, Grief, and Death - Khyati Tripathi and Ian R Lamond Section 1: Eternal Bonds Chapter 2: Re-encountering My Father Through Writing - Giulia Carozzi Chapter 3: Writing to My Father: A Daughter’s Therapeutic Journey Through Death and Grief - Ann-Marie Smith Chapter 4: All That Lingers: An Autoethnography of Smell in Bereavement - Alexandra Ridgway Chapter 5: Willemijn, the Story: Narrating the Death of a Daughter - Mariska Westendorp Editors’ Reflections I Section 2: Caring Through Illness Chapter 6: Lazarus Died: A Widow’s Autoethnographic Storying of Young Onset Dementia-Related Grieving - Pat Sikes Chapter 7: Edgewalking in the Land of the Living and the Dying - Eunice Gorman Section 3: Creative Responses to Loss and Grief Chapter 8: Opera Autoethnographica: In Memoriam. Fractured Silences. - Susan Manchoulas Chapter 9: Dancing with Death - Kathrin Marks Editors’ Reflections II Section 4: Loss and Grief at the Crossroads Chapter 10: Feminist; Migrant; Postdoc; A ‘Young’ Breast Cancer Patient: Not Necessarily in That (Dis)Order - Patrycja Sosnowka-Buxton Chapter 11: The Social and Symbolic Function of Funeral Directors in the Hellenic Communities of Melbourne, and the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Autoethnography - George Sarantoulias Chapter 12: Death’s Messes: Carework at the Intersection of Mothering and Veterinary Medicine - Emily S Katt Editors’ Reflections III Conclusion Chapter 13: The Book of Life Is Brief: Conclusion? - Ian R Lamond & Khyati Tripathi

Über Autor(innen)

Ian R Lamond is an independent post-humanist social science/cultural theory researcher and honorary fellow at the NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences in Leeuwarden (NL). Their work adopts a post-disciplinary approach to the conceptual foundations of event studies; creative forms of dissent; identity and fandom, and death studies. They have published several edited collections, monographs, book chapters, and encyclopaedia entries.

Khyati Tripathi is a Postdoctoral researcher with the End-of-Life Care Research Group at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). She approaches death studies from a multi-disciplinary lens spanning psychology, anthropology, and psychoanalysis. Her work frames larger discussions on palliative and end of life care, bereavement, funerary and post-funerary rituals.