Contents

pp v-vi

List of Figures

pp vii-vii

Note on the Figures

pp viii-viii

Notes on Contributors

pp ix-xii

Acknowledgements

pp xiii-xiv

Series Editors’ Preface

pp xv-xviii

Introduction

pp 1-10

Part I - Ontologies and Epistemologies

pp 11-12

1 - ‘Seeing for Real’: Forensic Pathologists Testing the Demonstrative Power of Postmortem Imaging

pp 13-26

2 - Death at a Planetary Scale: Mortality’s Moral Materiality in the Context of the Anthropocene

pp 27-41

3 - Death in the Fields: Microbial ‘Destruction’ in Polluted Soils

pp 42-53

4 - Can the Baltic Sea Die? An Environmental Imaginary of a Dying Sea

pp 54-68

Part II - Care and Remembrance

pp 69-70

5 - Viral Flows and Immunological Gestures: Contagious and Dead Bodies in Mexico and Ecuador during COVID-19

pp 71-82

6 - Advertising the Ancestors: Ghanaian Funeral Banners as Image Objects

pp 83-99

7 - Dying Apart, Buried Together: COVID-19, Cemeteries and Fears of Collective Burial

pp 100-113

8 - Spirit Mediums at the Margins: Materiality, Death and Dying in Northern Zimbabwe

pp 114-128

Part III - Troubling Agencies

pp 129-130

9 - Rehabilitate or Euthanize? Biopolitics and Care in Seal Conservation

pp 131-142

10 - Troubling Entanglements: Death, Loss and the Dead in and on Television

pp 143-155

11 - Material Entanglements of the Corpse

pp 156-167

12 - The Dead Who Would Be Trees and Mushrooms

pp 168-179

13 - Beyond the Norms

pp 180-186

Index

pp 187-192