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 and collated as Volume 26, Issue 1. Please find below the Table of Contents with links to all the articles. 

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https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/riij20/26/1?nav=tocList

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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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