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    612-822-4611

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Parental Grief and Photographic Remembrance: A Historical Account of Undying Love

Parental Grief and Photographic Remembrance: A Historical Account of Undying Love

Hamer, Felicity T. C.

Paperback

Series: Sharing Death Online

AnthropologyGeneral PhotographyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1787693260
ISBN13: 9781787693265
Publisher: Emerald Pub Ltd
Published: Feb 17 2020
Pages: 144
Weight: 1.80
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
Winner of the 2020 Stand-Out Graduate Research Award

Winner of the August 2020 Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FRQSC) Prix Relève étoile Paul-Gérin-Lajoie

Photographic portraits of those who have passed have the potential to become valuable sites of remembrance. Across North America and Western Europe, parents are increasingly unfamiliar with death; lacking the rituals and tools that have historically eased the bereavement process. This book shines a light on how semi-private social media groups enable the bereaved parents of today to navigate their grief in the modern world. The author explores how creative, and sometimes contested, incorporations of photography within these online spaces demonstrate a revival and renegotiation of historic practices. By shining a light on recurrent tendencies and their evolution within new media this book offers an opportunity to observe the complex relationships grief can prompt some individuals to form with the portraits of absent loved ones.

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