The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Capitalism/commercialization/financialization
Carballo, C., Batalla, M. & Lorea, N. 2006
‘Cuiad, segregación y cementerios: análisis de los cambios en los patrones historicós de localización’ (Argentina), Scripta Nova, 10, 218-42.
Fazia, A. 2018
‘Waqf making and commercial cemeteries: religous circulation and commodification of the economy of giving’, The Muslim World: Hartford Seminary, 676-701.
Iqbal, Z. 2011
‘McDonaldization, Islamic teachings and funerary practices in Kuwait’, OMEGA – Journal of Death and Dying, 63:1, 95-112.
Laqueur, T. 1993
‘Cemeteries, religion and the culture of capitalism’, in J. Garnett & C.Matthew (eds) Revival and Religion since 1700, London: Hambleton Press, 183-200.
Laqueur, T. 2002
‘The places of the dead in modernity’, in C. Jones & D. Wahrman (eds) The Age of Cultural Revolutions: Britain and France, 1750-1820, Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 17-32.
Morley, J. 1971
Death, Heaven and the Victorians, London: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rusu, M. 2020
‘The privatization of death: the emergence of private cemeteries in Romania’s postsocialist deathscape’, South East and Black Sea Studies, 20:4, 571-91.
Sanders, G. 2009
‘“Late” capitalism: amusement and contradiction in the contemporary funeral industry’, Critical Sociology, 35:4, 447-470.
Smith, D. 2015
‘Taking care of business: Canadian community mausoleums and the commercialization of death, 1912-1936’, Markers, 31, 30-51.
Tremlett, P-F. 2007
‘Death-scapes in Taipei and Manila: a postmodernnecrogeography’, Taiwan in Comparative Perspective, 1: 23-36.
