[Commlist] Call for Chapters: Death and Event: Remembrance, Memorialisation and the Evental

*Death and Event: Remembrance, Memorialisation and the Evental.*

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Despite the wide variety of events studied or addressed by event 
scholars and event managers, very few consider death from a perspective 
of event studies or event management. Yet, it is the one event that none 
of us can evade. How death is articulated through the events around it, 
how the end of life is marked (whether that be the life of an 
individual, a group, or a community) through evental structures in 
diverse cultural, ideological, societal frameworks, is a vastly 
under-explored domain. From the practicalities around a highly 
stage-managed event of commemoration or memorialisation, in the details 
of state funeral or day of remembrance, to the sudden outpourings of 
grief and unstructured informal societal responses to some events of 
death around well-known figures, the loss of someone personally close to 
us or our responses shed light on culturally normative modes of 
expression, hegemonic power, or an ideological context within which the 
death occurs and the living act and interact.

Following on from a positive discussion with one of the editorial board 
of the Emerald Studies in Death and Culture book series we are looking 
for chapters that would contribute to a proposed book on death, 
remembrance, memorialisation and the evental. We seek contributors from 
any discipline and field who are interested in reflecting on death from 
the perspective of event, event studies, and events management. The work 
can be conceptual, empirical, practical or provocative. Whether you are 
a practitioner or your area of expertise is anthropology, critical event 
studies, cultural studies, philosophy, psychology, sociology, theology 
or otherwise, so long as your interest is in the manifestation, 
mediation and articulation of death from an events perspective, we would 
love to hear from you. There are no restrictions around conceptual 
framework, or on the research philosophy/research approach, your work 
adopts.

Chapters may cover, but not be limited to:

  * Celebrating, commemorating and memorialising death through events
  * Funerals and memorial services
  * Funeral directors as event manager and co-creators of funeral events
  * National or international commemorations of death
  * Deaths of celebrities, royalty, religious or political leaders or
    iconic figures
  * Formal state responses to death
  * Media influences on death
  * Commercialization of death
  * Cultural significance of death memorials
  * Vigils and responses to terror attacks
  * Faith and non-faith perspectives
  * Informal spontaneous evental responses to death
  * Cultural appropriation of death events
  * Teaching about events of death
  * Conspicuous consumption and death
  * Sustainability and woodland burials
  * Visual media, social media and memorabilia, live streaming of death
    events
  * (Auto)Ethnographic stories of death events
  * Memorialisation as activist event
  * Theological perspectives on death events
  * A contemporary conceptualization of the funeral as event
  * Rituals of death events
  * Death events as liminal spaces

In the first instance please send us an abstract of 300 words (excluding 
any references), together with your full name, any affiliation, and lead 
author contact information 19^th July 2019. Our objective is to submit a 
formal book proposal by the end of July 2019.

Dr Ian R Lamond: (i.lamond /at/ leedsbeckett.ac.uk)

Rev. Ruth Dowson: (r.dowson /at/ leedsbeckett.ac.uk)

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