Parental Grief And Photographic Remembrance Av Felicity T. C. (Concordia University Canada) Hamer

<div><b>Winner of the 2020 Stand-Out Graduate Research Award<br><br>Winner of the August 2020 Fonds de recherche du Qu¿c ¿ Soci¿ et culture (FRQSC) Prix Rel¿ ¿ile Paul-G¿n-Lajoie</b><br></div><div><br></div><div>Photographic portraits of those who have passed have the potential to become valuable sites of remembrance. Across North America and Western Europe, parents are increasingly unfamiliar with death; lacking the rituals and tools that have historically eased the bereavement process. This book shines a light on how semi-private social media groups enable the bereaved parents of today to navigate their grief in the modern world. The author explores how creative, and sometimes contested, incorporations of photography within these online spaces demonstrate a revival and renegotiation of historic practices. By shining a light on recurrent tendencies and their evolution within new media this book offers an opportunity to observe the complex relationships grief can prompt some individual