The discovery of clandestine graves has become a recurrent event during the last ten years in Mexico, and there could be more than roughly 2000 distributed all over country (Guillen et al. 2018). Mass specifically are less well-known, reported, addressed; they located municipal or state cemeteries which house unidentified bodies is no official census. An estimated 26,000 considered (SEGOB 2019a...

This is an exploratory paper that aims to stimulate a dialogue between those interested in two particular spaces in society: the museum and the cemetery. Using empirical evidence from two research projects, the paper considers similarities and differences between the two sites, which are further explored through theoretical ideas about the social life of things and the agency of absence. Examin...

Th is research note describes an interconnection between touristic potential of localities impacted by the First and the Second World War, by focusing on a case study of cemeteries in the North-East of Slovakia. Th e case study proposes to create a Slovak part of the ‘dark tourism thematic trail’ through cemeteries from the First World War that could join the existing Polish part of the trail a...

This is an exploratory paper that aims to stimulate a dialogue between those interested in two particular spaces in society: the museum and the cemetery. Using empirical evidence from two research projects, the paper considers similarities and differences between the two sites, which are further explored through theoretical ideas about the social life of things and the agency of absence. Examin...

Several studies from the Nordic countries show that cemeteries not only fulfil an important societal function as places for disposal of bodily remains; they are also recreational landscapes people visit to reflect, experience nature or perhaps go a walk with dog. In this comparative study, based on PPGIS data collected between 2018 and 2020 residents in Copenhagen (Denmark) Helsinki (Finland), ...

Abstract This chapter addresses the pressing contemporary political and social issue of migrant death as a result dangerous irregular migration routes across Mediterranean, local provision for dead in southern Italy. Drawing on concept bordering (non)grievability, it details evolving Italian governance responses to border dead. It goes examine mortuary burial practices, with particular attentio...