Decolonising’ ‘grief’? Death and its continuing aftermath in the UK today

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‘Decolonising’ ‘grief’? Death and its continuing aftermath in the UK today

Asking what we know about death and its continuing aftermath raises issues about what counts as ‘knowledge’, what is ‘known’, and how it is known, in regard to lived experiences of human mortality and death’s continuing aftermath in the everyday relational lives of the living - more generally referred to as ‘bereavement and grief’. There is increasing recognition of the extent to which existing ‘knowledge’ about ‘bereavement and grief’ is dominated by perspectives and experiences from affluent Anglophone Minority world countries, rooted in coloniality/modernity and Whiteness. But, in seeking to address this dominance, the depth and breadth of what ‘decolonising’ may mean in response is profound and complex, not least in terms of the need to situate this work in ways that take account of particular geopolitical contexts.

Period	2 Dec 2025
Event type	Other
Location	Bath, UK United KingdomShow on map
Degree of Recognition	Local