Consolationscapes in the Face of Loss

Christoph Jedan is Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

This book explores the spatial manifestations of dealing with bereavement and grief. It resituate and revisits "consolation" as an analytical concept that manifests in various locations. This book offers a spectrum in which the meaning consolation fluctuates in accordance with the spatial practice that seeks to employ modes of coping with grief and bereavement. It provides both theoretical and empirical chapters, and is also structured by a division that separates European-placed chapters from chapters focused outside the 'Global North'.

Introduction: From Deathscapes to Consolationscapes: Spaces, Practices and Experiences of Consolation Part I: Reviving Consolation 1 What Is Consolation? Towards a New Conceptual Framework 2 Bittersweet: Mapping Grief and Consolation through the Lens of Deceased Organ Donation Part II: European Constellations 3 Consolation and the 'Poetics' of the Soil in 'Natural Burial' Sites 4 The Crematorium as a Ritual and Musical Consolationscape 5 Emotional Landscapes: Battlefield Memorials to Seventeenth-Century Civil war Conflicts in England and Scotland 6 Danish Churchyards as Consolationscapes Part III: Beyond the Global North 7 Moving through the Land: Consolation and Space in Tiwi Aboriginal Death Rituals 8 Rituals, Healing and Consolation in Post-Conflict Environments: The Case of the Matabeleland Massacre in Zimbabwe 9 Love the Dead, Fear the Dead: Creating Consolationsapes in Post-War Northern Uganda 10 It's God's Will: Consolation and Religious Meaning-Making after a Family Death in Urban Senegal, Epilogue