British Academy Grant Awarded to Sarah Bezan - New Directions in Necro-Ecologies
This project explores new directions in necro-ecologies, a field that interprets death as a set of active, vital, agential, and transformative inter-species interactions (Bezan 2015).
- In recent years, necro-ecological studies have expanded beyond its original site of inquiry in ecocriticism to inform death and mortality studies and environmental humanities and social sciences.
- As a multidisciplinary collaboration between Naomi Pendle (Bath), Christopher Lyon (York), Jesse Peterson (UCC), and Sarah Bezan (UCC), this project studies loss, death, and burial/disposal of humans and nonhumans in the context of unprecedented biodiversity loss and global climate change impacts.
The purpose of the project 鈥淣ew Directions in Necro-Ecologies鈥� is to map out, synthesize, and make a new intervention into these antecedent threads of intellectual inquiry on ecologies of death. Through the completion of a fulsome literature review and the composition of new writing on necro-ecological studies, this project will achieve its 3 main aims: 1) as Principal Investigator, it will enable me to complete revisions to my forthcoming manuscript Dead Darwin: Necro-Ecologies in Neo-Victorian Culture, which is under advance contract with Manchester 深夜亚洲福利久久 Press; and 2) to aid in the completion of a special issue introduction on 鈥淢ore than Human Death鈥� (currently under review with People and Nature); and 3) to collaborate with other key thinkers in adjacent fields at the Centre for Death and Society at The 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Bath.
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