Exploring Grief: Towards a Sociology of Sorrow

ISBN-13: 9780367776800 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 244 str.

Michael Hviid Jacobsen; Anders Petersen

Opis

This book explores grief as a social emotion. Thematically organised, it considers the historical changes in our understanding of grief, literary treatments of grief, contemporary forms of grief and grief as a perspective from which to engage in critique of society.

Spis treści

Introduction: Towards a Sociology of Grief: Historical, Cultural and Social Explorations of Grief as an Emotion  Part 1: Grief and History  1. Grief in Modern History: An Ongoing Evolution  2. Diversity in Human Grieving: Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives  3. The Impact of he Two World Wars on Cultures of Grieving: Grief in England, 1914-1980  Part 2: Grief and Literature  4. Magical Thinking: Experiences of Grief and Mourning in George Saunders’ Lincoln In The Bardo and Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing   5. A Story of Loss: Self-Narration of Grief and Public Feeling Rules   6. Writing Grief: The Fraught Work of Mourning in Fiction  Part 3: Forms of Grief  7. The Denial of Grief: Reflections from a Decade of Anthropological Research on Parental Bereavement and Child Death  8. Public Mourning: Displays of Grief and Grievance  9. Grief in Human and Companion-Animal Loss, Bonding and Dividual Pet-Personhood  Part 4: Grief and Social Critique  10. The Medicalisation of Grief  11. Suffocated Grief, Resilience and Survival Among African-American Families  12. Grief in an Individualised Society: A Critical Corrective to the Advancement of Diagnostic Culture 

O autorze

Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the editor of The Poetics of Crime and Postmortal Society and Critical and Cultural Interactionism, and co-editor of The Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman, Encountering the Everyday, The Transformation of Modernity, Utopia: Social Theory and the Future, Liquid Criminology, Imaginative Methodologies: The Poetic Imagination in the Social Sciences, and Towards a Criminology of Emotions.

Anders Petersen is Associate Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the co-author of Late Modern Subjectivity and its Discontents and the co-editor of The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization, Imaginative Methodologies: The Poetic Imagination in the Social Sciences and Critical Happiness Studies.