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P248


What remains: techno-material tracing of death and the dead 
Convenors:
Julia Morales (University of Virginia)
Anne Allison (Duke University)
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Chair:
Sylvia Tidey (University of Virginia)
Formats:
Panel
Mode:
Face-to-face
:
Facultat de Geografia i Història 301
Sessions:
Thursday 25 July, -
Time zone: Europe/Madrid

Short Abstract:

In this panel, we think with mortal remains and practices that engage them to open up questions regarding how death and the dead come to be. We interrogate the techno-material, intersubjective and temporal processes and practices through which the dead take shape and death gains certainty.

Long Abstract:

In this panel, we think with mortal remains and practices that engage them to open up questions regarding how death and the dead come to be. Far from considering death to be a “done” deal – a self-evident and uncontested cessation of life and absence of liveliness– we interrogate the techno-material, intersubjective and temporal processes through which the dead take shape and death gains certainty. From a decolonial, feminist, and queer standing, we want to take seriously the materiality of the dead, death, and the practices that are called upon when tracing and managing them. This involves the undoing of established cultural traditions (Allison: 2023), medico-legal and forensic practices (Pardo Pedraza & Morales-Fontanilla: 2023), and Western liberal conceptions of personhood (Tidey 2022), among many, towards novel and unexpected ways to bring death and the dead into material, technological, and cultural existence —human and nonhuman. We are interested in thinking about the political work that is done by these practices and how they open possibilities for new ways of being, conceptualizing, and rendering death. We welcome papers that delve into the multiple emerging registers that account for how death and the dead are made to hold amidst changing social orders and structures, socio-environmental devastation, the temporalities of late capitalism, and deep rooted violence. We encourage academic works that engage with exploring new and experimental research methodologies and narrative sensibilities that bring about emerging understandings of what death and the dead come to be.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Thursday 25 July, 2024, -