Death Activism by Patricia MacCormack - 9781350376199

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Death ActivismQueer Death Studies and the Posthuman\nAuthor(s): Patricia MacCormack\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350376199, 978-1350376199\nSynopsis\nTraditional Western attitudes towards death deal with it as a painful inevitability, something that has to be navigated as a trauma and a taboo. They focus essentially on the management of death, an anthropocentric practice prioritising the human life above every other type of existence.\n\nPatricia MacCormack explores how we can develop a death activism a variety of tactics and posthuman practices which celebrate death, its inevitability, its forms, from the slow to times of crisis, and how trauma and mourning emerge as their own forms of expression. Crucial to the foundation of death activism is the dissymmetry with which different deaths are met including the mass death of nonhuman animals and ecologies.\n\nDeath Activism is a feminist, queer, pos.