Czy solidarność żywych i martwych jest możliwa?

• Authors: Jankowska Agata

Title variants

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Is the solidarity between live and dead possible?

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

The article discusses the work of Ewa Domańska: Nekros. Introduction to the ontology of dead body. I analyse the basic thesis and research problems concentrated on dead body studies and corpses after the decay. Besides the discussion on the structure of the publication and its two basic parts (Necropolitics, Eco-necro), I focus on the theoretical and “ideological” presuppositions and its connection with so-called “new humanities” turn. Nekros is interdisciplinary work, different than academic historiography, where the humanistic approach tangles with the science and natural sciences. The author is interested in historical politics (necropolitics), the ways of exploitation of corpses for political purposes, connections between history and forensic turn, and also – in the second part of the book - in the ecology and forensics as a research propositions for dead body studies (for the research in the post-holocaust/genocide areas). Nekros project is more than the anthropology of death and thanatology, mostly focused on the dead and non-human actors, the bonds between culture and nature, and – last but not least – on the agency potentialities of natural environment.

Keywords

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dead body studies; forensic turn; new humanities; ecology; necropolitics; politics of memory

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Polskiego Towarzystwa Historycznego
• Journal: Rocznik Antropologii Historii
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 11, Kulturowa historia wiedzy
• Pages: 407–415

Contributors

author

Jankowska Agata

• Uniwersytet Szczeciński