Disposal technologies

Canning, L., & Szmigin, I. 2016

‘Radical innovation, network competence and the business of body disposal’, Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, 31:6, 771-783.

Canning, L., Szmigin, I. & Vaessen, C. 2016

‘Consumer acceptance of radical alternatives to human disposal’, in S. Dobscha (ed.) Death in a Consumer Culture, London: Routledge, 228-241.

Decker J., Muniz, E & Cruz, N. 2018

‘Environment systems: a new concept on cremation’, Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, 6:2, 363-380.

Gould, H., Arnold, M, Dupleix, T. & Koln, T. 2023

Stood to rest’: reorientating necrogeographies for the 21st century’, Mortality, 28:1, 54-72.

Monaghan, A. 2019

‘Conceptual niche management of grassroots innovation for sustainability: the case of body disposal practices in the UK’, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 76, 1026-43.

Uriu, D., Odom, W., & Gould, H. 2018

‘Understanding automatic conveyor-belt columbaria: emerging sites of interactive memorialisation in Japan’, Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference.

Events

The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract