The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Necromobilities
Attias-Donfut, C. & Wolff, F.-C. 2005
‘The preferred burial location of persons born outside France’, Population, 60:5, 699-720.
Berthod, M-A. 2018
‘La circulation des morts l’ancrage des corps et le deuil sans frontières’, Diversité Urbaine, 18, 87-104.
Han, G-S, Forbes-Mewett, H, & and Yang Wang, W. 2018
‘My own business, not my children’s: negotiating funeral rites and the mobility and communication juncture among Chinese migrants in Melbourne’, Mobilities 13:5, 761-775.
Jassal, L. 2014
‘Necromobilities: the multi-sited geographies of death and disposal in a mobile world’, Mobilities, 10:3, 486-509.
Kolnberger, T. 2019
‘Die lange anreise zur ewigen ruhe? Post-mortem mobalitat und kleiner grenszverkehr in sachen kremation’, in S. Kmec, R. Philippart & A. Reuter (eds) Ewige Ruhe? Grabkulturen in Luxemburg und den Nachbarrregionen, Luxembourg : CapybaraBooks, 327-330.
Lee, R. 2011
‘“Death on the move”: funerals, entrepreneurs and the rural-urban nexus in South Africa’, Africa, 81:2, 226-247.
Maddrell, A., Mathijssen, B., Beebeejaun, Y. & 2 others 2023
‘Hindu mobilities and cremation: minority, migrant and gendered dialogues and dialectics in English and Welsh towns’, in A. Maddrell, S. Kmec, T. Uteng, & M. Westendorp, (eds) Mobilities in Life and Death: Negotiating Room for Migrants and Minorities in European Cemeteries, Cham: Springer, 21-42.
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Marjavaara, R. 2012
‘The final trip: post-mortal mobility in Sweden’, Mortality, 17:3, 256-275.
Marjavaara, R. 2017
‘Selecting a place of rest after a life on the move: determinants of post-mortal mobility in Sweden’, Applied Mobilities, 2: 2, 166-181.
Pavićević, A. 2009
‘Welcoming the dead people: exhumation and reburial of famous deceased in Serbia’, in M. Rotar, V. Tudor Roşu & H. Frisby (eds) Proceedings of the Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe, Cluj-Napoca: Accent, 306-325.
Reesink, M., Martins, A. & Greganich, J. 2025
‘Double funerals. when death finds the dead in transnational contexts’, Anthropos, 119:2, 513-526.
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Trans, L. 2014
‘Travelling corpses: negotiating sovereign claims on Oaxacan post-mortem repatriation’ in F. Stepputat (ed.) Governing the Dead: Sovereignty and the Politics of Dead Bodies, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 75-94.
