Greening Death - Suzanne Kelly

Greening Death

Reclaiming Burial Practices and Restoring Our Tie to the Earth

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
216 Seiten
2017
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-8108-9581-2 (ISBN)
37,40 inkl. MwSt
Over the last fifteen years, people have been slowly waking up to the toxic and alienating practices that have come to make up the American Way of Death. Greening Death explores this awakening, arguing that beyond the greener and more cost-efficient practices of the Green Burial Movement lies an even greater promise—tying us back to the earth.
We once disposed of our dead in earth-friendly ways—no chemicals, biodegradable containers, dust to dust. But over the last 150 years death care has become a toxic, polluting, and alienating industry in the United States.

Today, people are slowly waking up to the possibility of more sustainable and less disaffecting death care, reclaiming old practices in new ways, in a new age. Greening Death traces the philosophical and historical backstory to this awakening, captures the passionate on-the-ground work of the Green Burial Movement, and explores the obstacles and other challenges getting in the way of more robust mobilization. As the movement lays claim to greener, simpler, and more cost-efficient practices, something even more promising is being offered up—a tangible way of restoring our relationship to nature.

Suzanne Kelly, PhD, is an independent scholar whose work spans the topics of the environment, feminism, sex, and death. She writes and farms in New York’s Hudson Valley.

Introduction – Waking Up
PART ONE
1. Apart from Nature
2. Dead Bodies that Matter
3. Wrath of the Corpse
PART TWO
4. Reclaiming Knowledge
5. Renewing Meaning
6. Restoring Our Relationship to the Land
8. Obstacles and Other Challenges
9. Mobilizing the Ethic
Epilogue – Heeding the Light, “Feeding the Green”

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 318 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Trennung / Trauer
ISBN-10 0-8108-9581-1 / 0810895811
ISBN-13 978-0-8108-9581-2 / 9780810895812
Zustand Neuware
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