We are delighted to announce that all the articles for the Thanatic Ethics Special Issue published in Interventions: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies, have now been published online. However, since there are other issues ahead of ours, the collated Special Issue will not appear online until December 2023. Please find below the Table of Contents with links to all the articles. 

 

Introduction

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Thanatic Ethics: The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces

By Bidisha Banerjee, Judith Misrahi-Barak and Thomas Lacroix

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369801X.2023.2190917

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Liquidscapes and Borders

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01. The Residual Migrant: Water Necropolitics and Borderization

By Edwige Tamalet Talbayev 

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369801X.2023.2190921

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02. Necropolitical Ecologies: Creative Articulations of Nature’s Death-Work in the Borderzone

By Lucinda Newns

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369801X.2023.2190919

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03. Perilous Pacific: Thanatic Archive and Vietnamese Refugees

By Kelly Yin Nga Tse

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369801X.2023.2190911

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Politics of Death and Mourning 

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04. Negotiating Moral Authority for Body Repatriation: The Case of Senegalese Migration

By Félicien de Heusch and Thomas Lacroix

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369801X.2023.2192955

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05. Towards A New Kinship? Affective Engagements with Migrants Dead in the Mediterranean

By Filippo Furri and Carolina Kobelinsky

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369801X.2023.2190916

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06. “He wants me to bring him home, even in the form of a shell”: Criminalised Bodies and Repatriation in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire

By Jaine Chemmacherry

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369801X.2023.2190915

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Visualizing the Thanatic

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07. When the People Behind the Scenes Come to the Fore: Touristic Venues as Zones of Visual Clash 

By Elsa Gomis and Ana Mendes

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369801X.2023.2190912

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08. Contemporary Art’s Thanatic Work: Re-embodying the (Absent) Migrant Body

By Catherine Bernard

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369801X.2023.2190918

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09. “The Pleasure of Drawing while People are Drowning”: Graphic Literature and the Critical Engagement with Death in Migratory Spaces

By Markus Arnold

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369801X.2023.2190909

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Requiem: Respect, Restitution, Repair 

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10. Unburials and Skeletal Reconstructions: Narrative as Forensics in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost

By Judith Misrahi-Barak

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369801X.2023.2190913

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11. Spectrality and Thanatic Ethics of Care in Atlantique and Biutiful

By Bidisha Banerjee

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369801X.2023.2190914

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