Varpu Alasuutari’s scientific contributions

... However, disenfranchisement is not always a binary issue but rather a question of context and varying volume. While one's grief might be disenfranchised in one context, it may be enfranchised in another, and vice versa (Alasuutari 2020a;2020b). Disenfranchisement is thus not only significant when absolute but also when it happens in varying intensities in the details of death's institutional and interpersonal encounters. Making space in the analysis for the varieties of dis/enfranchisement in both its practical and affective dimensions makes such an analysis more attuned to the variety of hardships encountered by LGBTQ people in the normative lifeworld of death. ...

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Queering Death Beyond the Human