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Dead body: Sociological theory
Åkesson, L. 1996
The message of dead bodies’ in S. Lundin and L. Åkesson (eds) Body Time. On the Interaction of Body, Identity and Society, Lund: Lund University Press.
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Cruz-Santiago, A. 2023
‘Mexico City’s exceptional deathscapes: the disappeared, (digital) bodies, molecular speculations’, in D. House & M. Westendorp with A. Maddrell (eds) New Perspectives on Urban Deathscapes: Continuity, Changes and Contestation, Northampton MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 180-197
Dreyfus, J-M. 2023
‘Violence de masse et genocides: corpse disparus et “forensic turn”’, in A. Carol & I. Renaudet (eds) Des Morts qui Dérogent: Á L’Écart des Normes Funéraires XIXe-XXe siècles, Aix-en-Provence: Presses Universaires de Provence, 165-176.
Hallam, E., Hockey, J. & Howarth, G. 1999
Beyond the Body: Death and Social Identity, Routledge: London.
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Johnson, L. (ed.) 2004
Body Politics. Death, Dismemberment and Memory in Latin America, Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press.
Kristeva, J. 1982
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, New York: Columbia University Press.
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Lazzara, M. 2010
‘Pinochet’s cadaver as ruin and palimpsest’, in M. Lazzara and V. Unruh (eds) Telling Ruins in Latin America, New York NY: Palgrave.
Penfold-Mounce, R. 2010
‘Consuming criminal corpses: fascination with the dead criminal body’, Mortality, 15:3, 250-265.
Posel, D. & Gupta, P. 2009
‘The life of the corpse: framing reflections and questions’, African Studies, 68: 3, 299-309.
Shute, J. 2015
‘Moral discourse and action in relation to the corpse: integrative concepts for a criminology of mass violence’, in J-M Dreyfus & É Anstett (eds) Human Remains and Mass Violence: Methodological Approaches, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 81-105.
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Williams, S. & Bendelow, G. 1998
The Lived Body: Sociological Themes, Embodied Issues, London: Routledge.
