Uriu, D., Odom, W., & Gould, H. 2018

‘Understanding automatic conveyor-belt columbaria: emerging sites of interactive memorialisation in Japan’, Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference.

Uslu, A. 2010

‘An ecological approach for the evaluation of an abandoned cemetery as a green area: the case of Ankara/Karakusunlar cemetery’, African Journal of Agricultural Research, 5:10, 1043-54.

Uslu, A., Bariṣ, E. & Edroğan, E. 2009

‘Ecological concerns over cemeteries’, African Journal of Agricultural Research, 4:13, 1505-11.

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Uysal, V. & Snyder, A. 2025

‘Journeys through deathscapes in the contemporary city: exploring urban interiority in New York City and Istanbul’, Architecture_MPS, 32:1, DOI.

Vaczi, M. 2014

‘Death in the cathedral: mortuary practices in sports stadiums’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 20, 635-652.

Vadasaria, S. 2015

‘Necronationalism: managing race, death and the nation’s skeletons’, Social Identities, 21:2, 117-131.

Vajta, K. 2017

‘Gravestones speak – but in which language? Epitaphs as mirrors of language shifts and identities in Alsace’, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 39:2, 137-154.

Vajta, K. 2020

‘Names on Alsatian gravestones as mirrors of politics and identities’, Nordic Journal of English Studies, 19:5, 288–310.

Vajta, K. 2025

‘Written multilingualism challenging French hegemony in the cemetery’, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 46:7, 1765-1783.

Valentijn, V. & Verhoeven, K. 2018

Goodbye Architecture: The Architecture of Cremation in Europe, nai010 publishers.

Valentine, C. & Woodthorpe, K. 2014

‘From the cradle to the grave: funeral welfare from an international perspective’, Social Policy and Administration, 48:5, 515-536.

Valentine, D. 2024

‘Corpses, clients and commodification in the natural burial marketplace’ in J. Hogan & S. Whetstone (eds) Consuming Bodies: Body Commodification and Embodiment in Late Capitalist Societies, London: Routledge, 324-339.

Van den Breemer, R. 2021

Governing Cemeteries: State Responses to New Diversity in The Netherlands, Norway and France, Göttingen: V&R.

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Between death and funeral: mortuaries and the exploitation of liminality in Kwahu, Ghana’, Africa, 76:4, 485–501.

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‘Funerals for the living: conversations with elderly people in Kwahu, Ghana’, African Studies Review, 43:3, 103-130.

Van Der Ploeg, T. 2019

‘Pluralisme religieux et funérailles aux Pay-Bas’, in A. Fornerod (ed.) Le Pluralism Religieux dans les Cimetières en Europe, Strasbourg : Press Universitaires de Strasbourg, 101-116.

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‘Death and space in the Netherlands’, Tijdshrift voor Economische en Social Geographie, 97:5, 623-35.

Van West, C. 2023

‘“We have no further interest in these patients until they die”: the US Public Health Services’ Syphilis Study and African American cemeteries in Macon County, Alabama’, in K. Fletcher & A. Towle (eds) Grave History: Death, Race and Gender in Southern Cemeteries, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 171-197.

Vanca, D. 2009

‘Liturgy of funerals in the Orthodox Church at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th entury, reflected in the first Romanian printed books’, in M. Rotar, V. Tudor Roşu & H. Frisby (eds) Proceedings of the Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe, Cluj-Napoca: Accent, 383-392.

Vance, J. 1998

Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning and the First World War, Vancouver, Canada: UBC Press.

Events

The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract