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Afterlives

Afterlives seeks to submit to scrutiny a concept that more often than not remains an under-explored metaphor. What forms of temporal experience, the thread asks, does the notion of afterlife allow capturing? How can it push us to rethink the boundaries of vitality? And, not least, what might the contemporary proliferation of afterlives tell us about our anxieties concerning life and its ambiguous endings in the 21st century? Curated by Marlene Schäfers.

Marlene Schäfers is holder of a Newton International Fellowship awarded by the British Academy, currently based at the LSE’s European Institute.

Afterlives: An Introduction

May, 2020 / By Marlene Schäfers

Afterlives are proliferating. Whether it is empire or destruction, Ebola or punk, revolution or waste – there seems to exist […]

Shaheen Bagh and the Force of Foundation

May, 2020 / By Chris Moffat

February 2020. The pedestrian overpass is covered in banners. Crossing its elevated walkway, only flashes of the sky can be

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Haunted: Spirits and the Agency of the No Longer in Niger

May, 2020 / By Adeline Masquelier

In Niger one frequently hears that schools, specifically secondary schools, are haunted. Briefly put, this means that some schools are

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Ghosts of Infrastructures Past

May, 2020 / By Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins

Some miles outside a small Welsh town, off the main road, a long, flat structure rises from the undergrowth. Ivy

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Presumed Dead but Lived On

May, 2020 / By Erol Saglam

Treasures and Discreet Afterlives of Greek Heritage in Contemporary Turkey Treasure hunts have long been a common practice, constituting one

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Lieux chargés: afterlives of Stolpersteine

May, 2020 / By Rachel Lehr and Ruth Mandel

Europe’s largest decentralised memorial is artist Gunter Demnig’s Stolpersteine—‘stumbling stones’— small brass plaques installed in the pavement in front of the