Does Place Matter? Burial Decisions of Muslims in Canada

Akkaymak, Guliz; Belkhodja, Chedly

doi:10.1177/0008429819858925

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“…A third inevitable issue, is the treatment of the body after death. Islamic tradition requires burial as soon as possible, with many attempting to bury the body within 24 h (Akkaymak and Belkhodja, 2020). A number of religious traditions prohibit cremation.…”

Section: Critical Challenges Requiring Governance Framework Considerations: Towards Flourishing Spacescapesmentioning

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(Un)earthly governance: beyond functional frameworks to flourishing spacescapes

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Purpose Humanity has a weakness in how we approach the “challenge” of using outer space. This paper aims to show how the global and national frameworks that address our planetary activities and crises are inadequate for the opportunities and challenges of life in outer space. Design/methodology/approach The authors draw on multidisciplinary perspectives to refine an organising governance framework that better showcases the challenges and pathways needed for living and thriving in space-age. The authors prioritise two key pillars and overview the practical and social implications that space-age humanity must address. Findings Social sciences and humanities are vital to problematising post-war colonial legacies of governance by distinguishing the unique and overlooked challenges for thriving and working offworld and identifying progressive research agendas. Research limitations/implications The highlighted agenda has implications for collaborative research institutes and project design. As the vital basis for continuous learning, university-based research institutes span bodies of knowledge, experience, convention and imagination that can support vibrant and overdue debate on good governance that is out of this world. Practical implications This expansive approach has practical implications for the decision-making processes and subjects of spacescape, from reconciling the space commons with prospecting and human occupation to potential governance regimes that capitalise on the zeal for moving beyond merely “existing” off-world. Social implications Examining the governance deficit as we pursue developing spacescape frontiers is an enriching (not reductionist) agenda that deliberately troubles the existing and emerging regime for governing our scientific and imagined off-world society. Originality/value This framework appeals to humanity’s highest evolution in co-producing a fair and flourishing off-world governance framework (beyond replicating planetary regimes).

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Section: Critical Challenges Requiring Governance Framework Considerations: Towards Flourishing Spacescapesmentioning

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(Un)earthly governance: beyond functional frameworks to flourishing spacescapes

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Techera

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The Transnational Afterlives of European Muslims

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Masarwa²

2022

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East

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How do European Muslims navigate death and burial in countries where they face systematic barriers to political inclusion? The authors of this article investigate the complex negotiations surrounding end-of-life decisions for Muslim communities in France and Germany. Drawing on multisited ethnographic research among Algerian and Turkish diasporas in Marseilles and Berlin, they illustrate how burial decisions reflect divergent ideas about citizenship, belonging, and identity. While some Muslims are interred in local cemeteries, many more are repatriated out of Europe to be laid in ancestral soils in countries of origin. Through interviews with Muslim death-care workers and community members the authors analyze the significance and symbolic value that such posthumous journeys carry in postmigratory settings. They argue that the Muslim corpse embodies a range of overlapping desires, experiences, and expectations connected to histories of migration, settlement, and return, as well as attitudes toward death and beliefs about the afterlife. Consequently, the corpse offers a compelling window into the transnational afterlives of migration and empire.

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Does Place Matter? Burial Decisions of Muslims in Canada

Cited by 2 publications

References 33 publications

(Un)earthly governance: beyond functional frameworks to flourishing spacescapes

(Un)earthly governance: beyond functional frameworks to flourishing spacescapes

The Transnational Afterlives of European Muslims

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