Death, Dying and Bereavement

Cover
Endorsements
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Part I Theory
	1 Death Is Social: A Sketch for a Reflexive Sociology of Death, Dying and Bereavement
	2 The Financial Life of Funerals before Death
	3 Sociological Insights into Post-Death Time Experiences
	4 Social Change, Collective Loss, Planet Earth
Part II Dying
	5 Sociology and Palliative Care: Travelling Concepts and Possibilities for Sociology
	6 The Biopolitical Economy of Dying in Care Homes: A Theoretical Framework
	7 A Socio-Legal Investigation into Making Plans for Dying: Perspectives of People with Dementia
	8 Representing Illness and Dying: The Uses of Sociology
Part III After Death
	9 “Death Is for the Living”: Ontology of Grief in the Context of Intimate Partnership – Case Study of a Widow, a Fiancée, and a Lover in India
	10 Beyond the Individualisation of Risk: Lessons from the Japanese Response to COVID-19
	11 Sociology and the Greening of Death in Aotearoa New Zealand
	12 Complex Worlds, Complex People: Auto-Ethnographic Sociological Perspectives on Decolonising the Aftermath of Death
Conclusion: The Importance of Death, Dying and Bereavement for Sociology
Index