TY - JOUR
AU - Islam, Farjana
PY - 2022
DA - October
TI - Pandemic-induced deathscapes: end-of-life, funerary and bereavement challenges for British-Bangladeshi Muslims
JO - Social and Cultural Geography
EP - 427
VL - 24
IS - 3-4
DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2130416
AB - Following the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK, end-of-life rituals and funerals across groups of all faiths and none took on a new character due to government-imposed measures to control disease transmission. This article aims to explore the challenges faced by British-Bangladeshi Muslims in relation to performing end-of-life, funeral, and mourning rituals during the first pandemic wave, underpinned by the perception of a ‘good death’. This group was among those disproportionately affected by Covid-19-related mortality and morbidity. Contextualising the study within a review of the literature on deathscapes and shifting policy responses to multicultural populations in the UK, and using an in-depth qualitative research approach, the article highlights the ways in which pre-existing challenges facing individuals seeking Islamic end-of-life, funeral and bereavement rituals have been exacerbated by Covid-19. The article offers new empirical and conceptual insights into the spatio-temporal dimension of end-of-life and funerary practices performed by British-Bangladeshi Muslims to achieve a good death and the changing nature of embodied and virtual deathscapes triggered by the pandemic.
PB - Taylor and Francis
UR - https://researchportal.hw.ac.uk/en/publications/ae3bcd66-7900-4639-8e47-94336c9c24b4
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
KW - Minority groups
ER