Glossary Term: 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 the premature deaths of persons whose movement or presence has been unauthorized and …

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

A postmortem itinerary or postmortal migrant journey are the practices of notifying, identifying, burying, mourning, commemorating and representing various …

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, …

As formulated by Maurice Stierl, counter-memorialization is a practice based on the “merging of grief for particular and general …