Life, Death and Representation

If death is the cessation of life, then, as a concept, it draws its meaning from the preceding life. While death and dying are inextricably connected, dying is still a part of life...

Using a historical framework, this book offers not only the penal history of the death penalty in the states that have given women the death penalty, but it also retells the storie...

Exploring life, death, and the afterlife in Mesopotamia, Alhena Gadotti and Alexandra Kleinermanexamine how life and death experiences continually developed over the course of near...

International expositions or "world’s fairs" are the largest and most important stage on which millions routinely gather to directly experience, express, and respond to cultural di...

Focusing explicitly on the dynamics of electoral representation, this chapter shows that scholarship about representation has been lively despite remaining at the fringe of mainstr...

How digital technology—from Facebook tributes to QR codes on headstones—is changing our relationship to death. Facebook is the biggest cemetery in the world, with co...

The movement from the Renaissance to the early modern period may have been one of the most tumultuous times in the history of the western world. Everything, sacred and profane, was...

A landmark dissenting opinion arguing against the death penalty. Does the death penalty violate the Constitution? InAgainst the Death Penalty, Justice Stephen Bre...