Bereavement is often treated as a psychological condition of the individual with both healthy
and pathological forms. However, this empirically-grounded study argues that this is not …

Background: News media create a sense-making narrative, shaping, reflecting and
enforcing cultural ideas and experiences. Reportage of COVID-related death and …

Research into peer conversations in online grief support groups remains scarce. The
authors used discourse analysis to examine 107 initial posts to one such group to examine …

Death generates rituals that organize the social world and bring to the fore the relational ties
individuals have with one another. The media not only constitute the space where some of …

FRANK Furedi (2004) has argued that in Western “therapy culture,”“indi-vidual emotions and
experience have acquired an unprecedented significance in public life”(p. 44). To Furedi …

Purpose–Supporting and communicating with citizens is a vital part of societal crisis
management. Training exercises may offer an opportunity to develop capabilities among …

The supposed 'emotionalization'of the public sphere has recently been the target of much
hostile commentary, both lay and academic. In the news media, there certainly seems to be …

The aim of this article is to discuss Swedish funeral directors from a professionalization
perspective with a focus on the last decades. The article is primarily based on a research …

Grief is a highly contested discursive terrain, affecting definitions, perceptions, and
conceptualizations about what it means to experience loss. Traditionally claimed in Western …

The purpose of the study was to develop knowledge about demands and experiences
relating to management of socially generated crises in local communities. Interviews were …