Latest Publications by Afterlives Members

Afterlives members have recently produced three journal special issues:

Death Studies

Kent, Lia, Caroline Bennett, and Jessica Auchter. 2024. “Transformations and Transitions: The Social and Political Life of the Dead.” Death Studies, published online November, 1–5. doi:10.1080/07481187.2024.2424030.

Akin, C. Erdost. 2024. “‘Martyrs Do Not Die’: Politics and Security in Kurdish Insurgents’ Funerals.” Death Studies, published online November, 1–11. doi:10.1080/07481187.2024.2424024.

Kent, Lia. 2024. “Unsettling Forensics: Novel Forms of Necro-Governmentality and Alternative Knowledge Practices in Sri Lanka and Timor-Leste.” Death Studies, published online November, 1–14. doi:10.1080/07481187.2024.2424025.

Leong, Kar-Yen. 2024. “Proof of Life: Human Remains and Memory in the Philippine Drug War.” Death Studies, published online November, 1–12. doi:10.1080/07481187.2024.2424026.

Mirto, Giorgia. 2024. “In the Wake of a Boat: The Politics of Mourning the 18th of April 2015 Shipwreck.” Death Studies, published online November, 1–14. doi:10.1080/07481187.2024.2424027.

Auchter, Jessica. 2024. “Missing Pieces and Body Parts: On Bodily Integrity and Political Violence.” Death Studies, published online November, 1–11. doi:10.1080/07481187.2024.2424028.

Bennett, Caroline. 2024. “The Evidentiary Potential of Art after Genocide.” Death Studies, published online November, 1–12. doi:10.1080/07481187.2024.2424029.

Journal of Human Rights Practice

Raheem, Mirak. 2024. “Challenging Practices of Victim-Centeredness in Consultations on Transitional Justice: Creating Space for the Voices of the Disappeared in Sri Lanka.” Journal of Human Rights Practice, published online December, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huae045

Robins, Simon. 2024. “The Politics of Ambiguous Loss: Missing Persons and Social Ecologies after Armed Conflict.” Journal of Human Rights Practice, published online August, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huae020

Bhandari, Ram Kumar and Simon Robins. 2024. “Formal but Local Transitional Justice: Memorialization of the Missing by Local Government in Nepal.” Journal of Human Rights Practice, published online December, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huae038

Annals of Anthropological Practice

Coming up!