Dr. Yasmin Gunaratnam on transnational dying, end-of-life care, being a carer, education with end-of-life-care professionals, art methods, anti-colonial death studies, genocide, yoga, and ADHD
The Death Studies PodcastShow Notes
In this episode, hear Yasmin Gunaratnam discuss transnational dying and end-of-life care in cities, ethnography, being a carer, writing, education with end-of-life-care professionals, artful risky care, using art methods in social sciences research, palliative art, hospitality, migration and death, an anti-colonial death studies and climate crisis, the genocide in Gaza, yoga, and being an academic with ADHD
Who is Yasmin?
Yasmin Gunaratnam is a sociologist interested in how different types of inequality and injustice are produced, lived with and remade and how these processes create new forms of local and global inclusion and dispossession. Yasmin is also a yoga teacher, exploring contemplative social justice and embodied pedagogies. Her publications include 'Researching Race and Ethnicity: methods, knowledge and power' (2003, Sage), ‘Death and the Migrant’ (2013, Bloomsbury Academic) and the co-authored book ‘Go Home? The Politics of Immigration Controversies’ (2017, Manchester University Press). She tweets @YasminGun
The Book in the Introduction
The book introduced in this episode is Youth and Suicide in American Cinema: Context, Causes, and Consequences (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) by Alessandra Seggi, MA, PhD, Fulbright Scholar and faculty at Villanova University, Department of Sociology and Criminology. Find out more at: https://www.alessandraseggi.com/
How do I cite the episode in my research and reading lists?
To cite this episode, you can use the following citation:
Gunaratnam, Y. (2024) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 2 May 2024. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.25735434
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