Places of Dying and Rituals of Mourning
Författare
Summary, in English
Backaplan is not the only place that has been significant after a disaster. It is common today that places where car accidents have occurred or somebody has been murdered become important for the affected. Relatives of the Swedish victims travel to Thailand after the tsunami disaster in 2004 to look for their family members and to see the place where their relatives died. Ritual interactions is a part in the process of transforming a place to a charged place. The spontaneous and formal rituals at Backaplan and the other places are interactions which strengthen the group as Émile Durkheim found in his studies about religion. Interactions generate fellowship, solidarity in the group and emotional energy for those participating in the ritual according to Randall Collins theories about interaction ritual chains. For successful rituals, the bodily presence is necessary as well as a physical, concrete place.
Publiceringsår
2005
Språk
Engelska
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Dokumenttyp
Konferensbidrag
Förlag
Nordic Geographers Meeting, Lund 1-13/5 2005
Ämne
- Human Geography
Nyckelord
- discotheque fire in Göteborg 1998
- emotional energy
- interaction rituals
- place
Conference name
Inaugural Nordic Geographers Meeting, 2005
Conference date
2005-05-10 - 2005-05-14
Conference place
Lund, Sweden
Status
Published
Projekt
- FRIVA
Forskningsgrupp
- LUCRAM (Lund University Center for Risk Analysis and Management