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Living Well with the Dead in Contemporary Ireland

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Credit: Roisin O'Gorman

Readings for final Thinkery: Living Well with the Confined Dead

Justice for Magdalen's Research

Academics Becoming Activists: Reflections on some Ethical Issues of the Justice for Magdalenes Campaign

Death Institutionalisation and Duration of Stay: A Critique of Chapter 16 of the Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalen Laundries and related issues

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

Anna Furse's Readings

See Anna's digital artwork - http://www.iamnotapieceofmeat.com/

Joanna Sofaer's Readings

'Touching the Body: The Living and the Dead in Osteoarchaeology and the Performance Art of Marina Abramovic'

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.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Posthumous-Bioethics-Routledge-Annals/dp/1138891576/ref=pd_sim_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1138891576&pd_rd_r=3421c2b6-180d-11e9-bfe7-4b94c6eb8aee&pd_rd_w=evHTo&pd_rd_wg=KiesE&pf_rd_p=1e3b4162-429b-4ea8-80b8-75d978d3d89e&pf_rd_r=CT1TFP5BREMDJJVGQMPS&psc=1&refRID=CT1TFP5BREMDJJVGQMPS#reader_1138891576

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

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