Death Activism: Queer Death Studies and the Posthuman

by Patricia MacCormack

Traditional 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. Patricia MacCormack explores how we can develop a 'death activism' - a variety of tactics and posthuman practices which celebrate death, its inevitability, its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350376183
• ISBN13: 9781350376182
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"