The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Sociology: Modernity
BayatRizi, Z. & Tehrani, R. 2017
‘The objective life of death in Tehran: a vanishing presence’, Mortality, 22:1, 15-32.
Laqueur, T. 2002
‘The places of the dead in modernity’, in C. Jones & D. Wahrman (eds) The Age of Cultural Revolutions: Britain and France, 1750-1820, Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 17-32.
Mellor, P. 1992
‘Death in high modernity: the contemporary presence and absence of death’, in D. Clark (ed.) The Sociology of Death, Oxford: Blackwell, 11-30.
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Mellor, P. & Shilling, C. 1993
‘Modernity, self-identity and the sequestration of death’, Sociology, 27:3, 411-431.
Mokhov, S. & Sokolova, S. 2020
‘Broken infrastructure and soviet modernity: the funeral market in Russia’, Mortality, 25:2, 232-248.
Nash, G. 2000
‘Pomp and circumstances: archaeology, modernity and the corporatisation of death: early social and political Victorian attitudes towards burial practice’, in P. Graves-Brown (ed.) Matter, Materiality and Culture, London: Routledge, 124-142.
Outka, E. 2014
‘” Wood for the coffins ran out”: Modernism and the shadowed afterlife of the influenza pandemic’, Modernism/modernity, 21:4, 937-960.
Voekel, P. 2002
The Religious Origins of Modernity in Mexico: Alone Before God, Durham: Duke University Press.
