Consolationscapes in the face of loss : grief and consolation in space and time / edited by Christoph Jedan, Avril Maddrel and Eric Venbux.

Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Preface; Introduction: From deathscapes to consolationscapes: spaces, practices and experiences of consolation; Bringing a spatial lens to consolation; Interdisciplinary approaches to consolation; The chapters; References; PART I: Reviving consolation; 1. What is consolation? Towards a new conceptual framework; Introduction; Three notable models of consolation; Three strands of consolation; The Four-Axis Model of Consolation; Application

ConclusionReferences; 2. Bittersweet: Mapping grief and consolation through the lens of deceased organ donation; Introduction; Mapping grief and consolation: a conceptual framework; The bittersweet consolation of organ donation: #livesoninothers; The Organ Donation Isle of Man Memorial Garden; Conclusion: Reflections on mapping grief and consolation; References; PART II: European constellations; 3. Consolation and the 'poetics' of the soil in 'natural burial' sites; Introduction; Environmental concerns; A call 'back to nature'; The biotic non-self; Scoping, coping and consolation

And tentative conclusionReferences; 4. The crematorium as a ritual and musical consolationscape; Introduction; Music and the cremation ritual; Interference of places: Building, ritual and music; Music and consolation; Crematorium, music and consolation; Consolationscape; References; 5. Emotional landscapes: Battlefield memorials to seventeenthcentury Civil War conflicts in England and Scotland; Introduction; Emotional communities; Naseby (1645); Wigtown (1685); Emotional geographies; The Naseby monuments; Wigtown monuments; Conclusion; References

6. Danish churchyards as consolationscapesIntroduction; The seemingly secularised look of Danish churchyards; The reformation of material culture; The displacement of consolation; Regulating consolation in Lutheran Denmark; Cremation and Protestant heritage; The new-old deathscape and the strengthened church; Contesting Protestant norms of consolation; Official religion versus lived religion; Planning for future consolation; References; PART III: Beyond the Global North; 7. Moving through the land: Consolation and space in Tiwi Aboriginal death rituals; Introduction; Connections to country

When the turtles vanishedRitual cleansing of the dead's territory; Postfuneral rites from Pirlangimpi to Karumurarimili; Conclusion; References; 8. Rituals, healing and consolation in post-conflict environments: The case of the Matabeleland Massacre in Zimbabwe; Introduction; Death wounds; The case of Gukurahundi; The practice of Ndebele traditional funeral rites; Gukurahundi and the desecration of religio-cultural values; Conclusion; References; 9. Love the dead, fear the dead: Creating consolationscapes in postwar northern Uganda; Introduction; Acholi consolationscapes

The LRA war and the displaced dead

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