Living Well with the Dead in Contemporary Ireland

Credit: Roisin O'Gorman
Readings for final Thinkery: Living Well with the Confined Dead
Justice for Magdalen's Research
Clann Publishes Findings of Three-Year Project on Adoption and Mother and Baby Homes
Sarah-Anne Buckley's recommended readings
Remembering and forgetting: The Tuam Mother and Baby Home and the Irish Revolution
Historians and the yearning for historical justice
Margrit Shildrick's paper
Queering the Social Imaginaries of the Dead
Readings for Workshop 4: Theatres of the Dead: Performance, Anatomy and Archaeology
Joanna Sofaer's Readings
Sofaer, J. (2006) The Body as Material Culture: A Theoretical Osteoarchaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Sofaer, Joshua https://www.joshuasofaer.com/art-and-performance/ (especially the various pieces on noses)
Margaret Werry's Readings
'House Arrest: Museological Performance, Animacy, and the Remains of Rural America'
'Mediated Bodies: Fetal Bodies Undone'
Readings for Workshop 3: The Work of the Dead: Remains, Rights and Emotions
Imogen Jones readings
'It's All About Justice': Bodies, Balancing Competing Interests, and Suspicious Deaths'
Barry Lyons readings
'Should we display the dead?'
Vittorio and Mary's readings
'The body in time'
'Respecting the Living Means Respecting the Dead too'
OTHER READINGS
Belliotti, R. A. (2013) Posthumous Harm: Why the Dead are Still Vulnerable. Lexington Books. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Posthumous-Harm-Dead-Still-Vulnerable/dp/0739185993
Taylor, J. S. (2015) Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics. New York: Routledge.
Readings and papers for Workshop 1: Social Imaginaries of the Dead
Other readings
- Stillborn 1943: Calling Limbo, by Derry O'Sullivan http://www.stephen-spender.org/2012_prize/2012_open_1st_KH.html
- Margrit Shildrick's paper presented at the workshop
Niamh McCullagh's readings
- Technical Report on the Tuam Site
- Forensic archaeology and the independent commission for the location of victims’ remains
Margrit Shildrick's readings
- Derrida, Jacques (1999) 'Hospitality, Justice and Responsibility: A Dialogue with Jacques Derrida' in Richard Kearney and Mark Dooley (eds) Questioning Ethics: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy. London: Routledge.
- Wilmer, Stephen (2015) 'Biopolitics in the Laundry: Ireland’s Unwed Mothers' in Resisting Biopolitics: Philosophical, Political, and Performative Strategies (eds) S.E. Wilmer and Audronė Žukauskaitė, London: Routledge.
- Matters of the heart: temporality and microchimeric entanglements
Forthcoming in Tammer El Sheikh (ed.) Hybrid Bodies: Entanglements of Different Orders, Vernon Press. (due 2019)
Thomas Laqueur's readings
- Introduction and Chapter 1: Do the Dead Matter? from The Work of the Dead by Thomas Laqueur
Nancy Scheper-Hughes's readings
- http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/features/282558/no-more-angel-babies-on-the-alto-do-cruzeiro
- 'Small Wars and Invisible Genocides'
- The Body of the Terrorist: Blood Libels, Bio-Piracy, and the Spoils of War at the Israeli Forensic Institute