Intersections of (infra)structural violence and cultural inclusion: The geopolitics of minority cemeteries and crematoria provision
Intersections of (infra)structural violence and cultural inclusion: The geopolitics of minority cemeteries and crematoria provision
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DOI：
10.1111/tran.12437
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发表时间：
2021-03-05
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3.3
通讯作者：
Mathijssen, Brenda
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作者：
Maddrell, Avril;McNally, Danny;Mathijssen, Brenda
基于地缘政治的具体化和去殖民化方法，本文探讨了市政公墓和火葬场的治理形式与既定少数民族需求之间的关系，认为基础设施和服务不足可能构成伤害。至关重要的是，有人认为，治理形式不仅影响到生者，而且影响到对死者福祉的看法。基于在英格兰和威尔士的四个城镇的研究，本文确定了第一，交叉身份如何从根本上塑造人们的死亡景观治理的经验;第二，包容性服务的基础设施的好处的可能性;第三，所做的危害非包容性的治理形式，隐含的领土和基础设施不足。这体现在市政公墓组织和管理不善对特定少数群体的负面影响上，如埋葬空间不足、埋葬费用高昂、妨碍及时举行仪式、政府紧缩措施导致获得服务的机会减少;以及地方规划进程旷日持久。结论呼吁更广泛的概念化的necropolitics，基于一个关键的女权主义非殖民地地缘政治学的死亡景观在多元文化的社会，并提供了见解的实际治理的包容性墓地和火葬场。
Building on embodied and de-colonial approaches to geopolitics, this paper examines the relationship between forms of governance in municipal cemetery and crematorium provision and the needs of established minorities, arguing that inadequate infrastructure and services can constitute harm. Crucially, it is contended that forms of governance impact not only on the living, but also on perceptions of the wellbeing of the dead. Grounded in a study of four towns in England and Wales, the paper identifies firstly how intersectional identity fundamentally shapes people's experiences of deathscape governance; secondly, the possibilities of infrastructural benefits of inclusive services; and thirdly, the harms done by non-inclusive forms of governance, implicit territoriality and inadequate infrastructure. This is evidenced in the negative impact of poor municipal cemetery organisation and management on specific minority groups, such as inadequate burial space, high burial costs, hindrances to timely rituals, and reduced access to services as a result of government austerity measures; as well as protracted local planning processes. The conclusion calls for a wider conceptualisation of necropolitics, based on a critical-feminist-decolonial geopolitics of deathscapes in multicultural societies, and offers insights for the practical governance of inclusive cemeteries and crematoria.