Term Category: Concepts

Gap between the countable deaths and the uncountable deaths calls to „place an alternative politics, one that accounts for …

In the context of border deaths exhumation is usually followed by repatriation of corpses initiated most often by the …

Border deaths or “migrant deaths” describe premature deaths of persons whose presence on the state territory has been unauthorized …

Necroviolence is “violence performed and produced through the specific treatment of corpses that is perceived to be offensive, sacrilegious, …

Postmortem itineraryes or „postmortal migrant journeys“ are practices of notifying, identifying, burying,  murmuring, commemorating and representing of various material …

Paolo Cuttitta, Jana Häberlein and Polly Pallister-Wilkins differentiate multiple actors connected to border death, as well as with “what …

Digital shrines or digital memory objects are developed for vernacular, artistic or activist memorialization or remembering of missing persons …

Ambiguous loss is the incomplete or uncertain loss experienced as the ambiguity of waiting and wondering, recognised in arts, …

Counter-memorialization is a practice based on „merging of grief for particular and general losses with a radical critique of …