Readings and papers for Workshop 1: Social Imaginaries of the Dead

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Other readings

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- Stillborn 1943: Calling Limbo, by Derry O'Sullivan http://www.stephen-spender.org/2012_prize/2012_open_1st_KH.html

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- Margrit Shildrick's paper presented at the workshop

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Niamh McCullagh's readings

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- Technical Report on the Tuam Site

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- Forensic archaeology and the independent commission for the location of victims’ remains

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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.

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- 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

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- Introduction and Chapter 1: Do the Dead Matter? from The Work of the Dead by Thomas Laqueur

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Nancy Scheper-Hughes's readings

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- http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/features/282558/no-more-angel-babies-on-the-alto-do-cruzeiro

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- 'Small Wars and Invisible Genocides'

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- The Body of the Terrorist: Blood Libels, Bio-Piracy, and the Spoils of War at the Israeli Forensic Institute