The Life of the Corpse: Framing Reflections and Questions

Posel, Deborah; Gupta, Pamila

doi:10.1080/00020180903381248

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“…It is saturated with meaning and can function as a method of viewing humanity (Posel & Gupta, 2009). Consequently, even when the body is dead it still has something to say.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Corpses, popular culture and forensic science: public obsession with death

Penfold-Mounce

2015

Mortality

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The cadaver has been heralded as 'pop culture's new star'. Foltyn's claim will be expanded in that it does not adequately consider the underlying components of the rise of the corpse in popular culture. It will be argued that forensic science portrayals in popular culture play a critical role in fuelling public obsession with death and cadavers. A particular focus will be taken upon the sociological concept of the gaze and using it to explore how watching the dead is influenced through popular culture forensic work portrayals. The gaze is used to highlight how forensic science in popular culture provides a softening lens through which death and corpses are viewed and how this leads to the normalisation of consuming the dead by the public. Finally, this article will propose the notion of morbid space which is argued to be part of the process in which public fascination with death, dying and corpses is experienced and normalised.

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“…It is saturated with meaning and can function as a method of viewing humanity (Posel & Gupta, 2009). Consequently, even when the body is dead it still has something to say.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Corpses, popular culture and forensic science: public obsession with death

Penfold-Mounce

2015

Mortality

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“…From another vantage point, Posel and Gupta ( 2009 ) suggest that the place of death and the corpse -which at the same time may repulse and lure, disgust and fascinate -is a pre-eminent site for the identifi cation of symbolic boundaries between a nation and its other or between the sovereign and the governed. Th ey foreground what they call 'the dualistic life of the corpse': on the one hand the corpse is a material object, while on the other hand it is a signifi er of wider political, economic, cultural, ideological and theological endeavours.…”

Section: Governing Through Necropolitics and Narcopoliticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Governing through the mutilated female body

Sørensen¹

2020

Governing the Dead

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“…Relatedly, the very practices of 'disappearing' and concealment testify to perpetrators' inability to kill openly and leave bodies where they fall, and thus to the persistence of the human and the limits of erasure. 58 Indeed, for the most part, bodies of the missing dead of apartheid atrocities entered death's routine bureaucracy. Sylvia Karl would perhaps see the necessity to bury in a grave as a triumph, demonstrating that re/humanisation closely follows dehumanisation.…”

Section: Missing and Missed And The South African Nationmentioning

confidence: 99%