Article topics include:
- An exploration of the spiritual and material consequences of death ‘out of place’ for cross-border migrants in Johannesburg
- Narratives of ‘twice deaths’ – fatal road accidents en route to funerals – in South Africa
- A political and ethical critique of the ‘epidemiological turn’ in global road safety through an analysis of the ways in which East Africans draw upon conceptual and spiritual factors in bearing witness to fatal road accidents
- The use of popular music as part of an expanded repertoire of performative practices, embodying the act of ‘trying’ in the face of hardship and death in an impoverished Copperbelt town
- The variety of meanings Africans attribute to suicide in East and Southern Africa
- How women workers in an inner-city Christian NGO in Pretoria draw on ‘vernacularised’ conceptions of women’s rights and ‘fidelity’ to articulate a highly gendered ‘sense-making’ of death in the post-apartheid moment
- A study of the moral and emotional contours of loss as medical staff cope with child death at a paediatric intensive-care unit in South Africa
- A meditation on the grieving process in Southern Benin.
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