Making a bold intervention into critical security studies literature, this book explores the ontological relationship between mortality and security. It considers the mortality theories of Heidegger and Bauman alongside literature from the sociology of death, before undertaking …
What follows is a comparative exploration of the memorialisation of four prominent post-terrorist sites: the World Trade Centre New York, the Bali bombsite, the London bombings and the Norwegian sites attacked by Anders Breivik. Though interviews with the architects and designer…
A comparative study of memorialisation and reconstruction of post-terrorist bomb sites, which argues that security practices are fundamentally connected to death anxiety. The book combines literature from continental philosophy, sociology of death and disaster recovery to empiri…
"Death is at once a universal and everyday, but also an extraordinary experience in the lives of those affected. Death and bereavement are thereby intensified at (and frequently contained within) certain sites and regulated spaces, such as the hospital, the cemetery and the mort…
Deleuze and Memorial Culture outlines the relevance of Deleuze's thought to cultural studies and the wider phenomenon of traumatic memory and public remembrance.
"Deleuze and Memorial Culture is a detailed study of contemporary forms of public remembrance. Adrian Parr considers the different character traumatic memory takes throughout the sphere of cultural production and argues that contemporary memorial culture has the power to put tra…
Deleuze and Memorial Culture is a detailed study of contemporary forms of public remembrance. Adrian Parr considers the different character traumatic memory takes throughout the sphere of cultural production and argues that contemporary memorial culture has the power to put trau…
