Death Activism - Queer Death Studies and the Posthuman

Traditional Western attitudes towards death deal with it as a painful inevitability, something that has to be navigated as a trauma and a taboo. They focus essentially on the ''management'' of death, an anthropocentric practice prioritising the human life above every other type of existence. Patricia MacCormack explores how we can develop a ''death activism'' - a variety of tactics and posthuman practices which celebrate death, its inevitability, its forms, from the slow to times of crisis, and how trauma and mourning emerge as their own forms of expression. Crucial to the foundation of death activism is the dissymmetry with which different deaths are met including the mass death of nonhuman animals and ecologies. Death Activism is a feminist, queer, postcolonialist enquiry, that seeks to queer death - making queer our usual familiar death habits and trajectories of thought, toward a jubilant activism that can transform death into a more democratically equal, and a more jubilant force for life.>

About the author

Patricia MacCormack is Professor of Continental Philosophy at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. She is the author of The Ahuman Manifesto (Bloomsbury, 2020), Posthuman Ethics (2012), and Cinesexuality (2008).

Product details

• Authors: Patricia MacCormack
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.02.2025
• EAN: 9781350376182
• ISBN: 978-1-350-37618-2
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 232 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Posthumanism in Practice
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; NATURE / Ecology, PHILOSOPHY / Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, Philosophy, Applied ecology, Gender studies, gender groups, Topics in philosophy, Animal Ecology, Sociology: death and dying, Sociology: Death & Dying, posthuman, death, queerness, gender, philosophy