Burial in UK Law
- Burial Disputes
- The Epping Forest Abortion Burial
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Governing migration through death in Europe and the US: Identification, burial and the crisis of modern humanism
Border deaths have become an established feature of contemporary migratory politics in both Europe and the US. This article examines the similarities and differences in practices of ‘governing migr...
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Human remains as documents: implications for repatriation
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, to investigate the documentality of human remains in museum and research collections. Second, to provide a rationale for a processual model of ...... ... Second, to provide a rationale for a processual model of documentation,which can account for their repatriation and eventual burial.Design/methodology/approach –This paper uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine therepatriation issue. It considers an ethical argument ... ...
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Death, emplaced security and space in contemporary Timor-Leste
By adopting a spatial approach to analysis, this article examines the significance of death in Timor-Leste and its relationship to security and peace. The main argument is that a person’s security ...... ... As such, the spatial turn shows how burial represents both an intimate and petite act of place-making while also intersecting with different spatial orders and scales that interact with ... ...
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Burying Indigeneity: The Spatial Construction of Reality and Aboriginal Australia
In this article we argue that spatial distance and historic socio-ethnic boundaries play a critical role in determining the relative priority given to groups that are marginally placed. These prior...... ... We suggest that the spatially-boun ded patterningof black and white lives supports thecontinued burial of Indi- genous life.The socio-spatial constructionof Indigenous life forwhite and other Australians has enabled both ag gressive and negl ectful ... ...
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Roboski and procedural rules: How the truth about a massacre was buried in the pages of history
Recently, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) issued an inadmissibility decision regarding the application concerning the Roboski massacre (Selahattin Encü and Others v Turkey App no 49976/1...... ... This unwavering trust has res ulted in the once-and-for-all burial of the truth about one of the gravest massacres in the history of Turkey without a proper examination of the allegations of the applicants. Two ... ...
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Peter Jupp, Douglas Davies, Hilary Grainger, Gordon Raeburn and Stephen White, Cremation in Modern Scotland: History, Architecture and the Law
...Cremation in Modern Scotland takes an interdisciplinary approach to examine cremation in Scotland and how and why it took over from burial as the predominant method of dealing with the dead. In its introduction it states this subject of cremation clearly, asking how it came about, what ... ...
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Res Religiosae and the Roman Roots of the Crime of Violation of Sepulchres
... ... Scottish authority to suggest that corpses here can be the subject of theft, 13 provided that the corpse is appropriated prior to its burial. 14 The courts of England and Wales, and, indeed, the wider Common law world, have been forced to employ “creative judicial reasoning” to escape ... ...
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8. GRAVEN IMAGES: “THE HART ISLAND PROJECT”
When historical visibility has faded, when the present tense of testimony loses its power to arrest, then the displacements of memory and the indirections of art offer us the image of our psychic s...... ... Correspondingly,as citationsof balance between burial and remembrance, the Hart Island pictures breathewith imaginative weight and ghost us with their call for citizenship and historicalsignificance, ... ...
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