Previous studies have found the perception of the body and death practices can have an influence on perceptions of deceased organ donation. This is the first study in the UK to investigate the views of the Polish migrants, a fast growing community, toward organ donation, death practices and the deceased body. In total, there were 31 participants that took part in the study in one-to-one intervi...

This study evaluates the collection and flow of mortality and cause-of-death (COD) data in Thailand, identifying areas of weakness and presenting potential approaches to improve these statistics. Methods include systems analysis, literature review, and the application of the Health Metrics Network (HMN) self-assessment tool by key stakeholders. We identified two weaknesses underlying incomplete...

This ethnographic study aims to identify and describe how a group of elderly African people in South Africa experience their daily life and related concerns and interests. Data were collected through group interviews involving 16 elderly persons and complementary field observations. The data were analysed using a qualitative content analysis. From the analysis following sub-themes emerged: 1. L...

In her article "Mapping Memory in Tran's Vietnamerica" Mary Goodwin explores the use of maps, landscape paintings, and other topographic images in Gia-Bao Tran's graphic memoir chronicling the "postmemory" of the US-American son of wartime refugees. Tran's family immigrated to the United States in 1975 following the fall of Saigon. Tran knew nothing of his parents' hardships and struggle to esc...

This paper uses disruption to norms of funeral attendance experienced in the UK during COVID−19 pandemic as a lens illuminate why and how can matter. It draws on an extensive qualitative dataset, gathered through semi-structured interviews with diverse sample 68 individuals who were bereaved and/or worked or volunteered death care pandemic. first examines interviewees’ concerns about insufficie...

The paper discusses musical performances used at mourning ceremonies by the Ismaili Muslims in mountainous Gorno–Badakhshan province of Tajikistan (hereafter GBAO). Shī’a Ismailis make up most population this province, compared to a majority Sunni Muslim rest Tajikistan. These have lived remote for centuries and therefore evolved their own unique culture that is different from Tajikistan. ...

This paper draws principally from COVID-19 diaries written by young women whom we had previously trained as peer researchers in a mobility study of low-income neighbourhoods Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis. Some live with parents or older extended family members, others have children their care, but concerns around avoiding contagion forced all to reflect on everyday socio-spatial practices. include...