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  • Dr Jane McCarthy on grief, bereavement, family relationships, relationality, children, young people and death, decolonising death studies, climate emergency and more

    Dr Jane McCarthy on grief, bereavement, family relationships, relationality, children, young people and death, decolonising death studies, climate emergency and more
    Oct 2 2026
    What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Dr Jane McCarthy on grief, bereavement, family relationships, relationality, children, young people and death, decolonising death studies, climate emergency and more Who is Jane? Jane McCarthy is an English sociologist who has worked for many decades across various disciplines to focuson ‘family’, childhood, and relationality. In the last 25 years,since the death of her husband when their daughter was aged 5, she has built on this earlier work to explore death and its continuing aftermath in the everyday relational lives of the living, alongside ‘family troubles’ more broadly. She has approached these topics in terms of lived experiences, academic approaches, and professional practices and services. She has particularly offered a view of bereavement as a source of change, rather than the narrower view of ‘loss’, including in the lives of children experiencing a significant death in their lives. Her general approach to all these subjects is to set aside what may be considered ‘healthy’ or ‘unhealthy’, ‘harmful’ or ‘beneficial’, and rather to focus on how disruptive change may be experienced in everyday relational lives, with multiple ramifications, and how people themselves make sense of these within the circumstances of their lives. Some of Jane’s work has involved research and collaborations in Senegal and China, but her primary experience is UK based, where she has particularly valued her involvement with the Community Voices network. Since her ‘retirement’ in 2015, as an Honorary Associate at The Open University she has been able to extend this workto initiate an Open Societal Challenge on Existential Dis/Connections. This collaborative interdisciplinary hub seeks a decolonising lens to explore how existential threatsare structurally shaped, as well as personally experiencedand understood, in the era of modernity/coloniality, with itsmany forms of disconnect, including the ‘Othering’ of racialisedcapitalism. The work particularly highlights the dis/connections of existential threats of personal deaths, on the one hand, and the planetary existential threats rapidly (but unequally) emerging with the Climate and Ecological Emergency on the other. A ‘decolonising’ lens is therefore sought to explore dis/connections of manyforms and through many means in regard to these concerns. Thecollaboration seeks a polyphonic approach with an emphasis on both ‘being’ and ‘doing’, towards both epistemological andontological/cosmological justice. These issues require attention to the taken-for-granted Whiteness of knowledge in relation todeath and its aftermath alongside the power andoppressions of necropolitics, in the era of modernity/coloniality. In the podcast, in conversation with Bethan Michael-Fox, Janeexplores some of the twists and turns of her life journeyacross these terrains over 40 years. Besides her position at The Open University, Jane is a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Death and Society at Bath University, and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Reading. She publishes extensively on these topics as Jane Ribbens McCarthy. Demystifying Death Documentary EventFor anyone interested in the Demystifying Death event in India in January, please contact Mariya directly on makaragy@gmail.com To cite this episode, you can use the following citation: McCarthy, J. (2026) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 2 October 2026. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.34056750 Check out more episodes or find out more about the hosts! Got a question? Get in touch.
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    1 ora e 11 min
  • Professor Joanna Stalnaker on death and philosophy, writing at the end of life, last works, Enlightenment thinking, women in the Enlightenment, teaching, and developing a brain tumour

    Professor Joanna Stalnaker on death and philosophy, writing at the end of life, last works, Enlightenment thinking, women in the Enlightenment, teaching, and developing a brain tumour
    Sep 1 2026

    What's is this episode about?

    In this episode, hear Professor Joanna Stalnaker on death and philosophy, writing at the end of life, last works, Enlightenmentthinking, women and philosophy in the Enlightenment, teaching, pedagogy, and her experience of discovering she had a brain tumour causing an unexplained obsession with Harry Styles and fan fiction

    Who is Joanna?

    Joanna Stalnaker is the author of two books: The Rest Is Silence:Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death and The Unfinished Enlightenment: Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia. She teaches in the Department of French at Columbia University. She is currently developing a new course, co-taught with an art historian, called Birth, Death and the Human. Her currentproject is a memoir about her experience of living with an undetected brain tumor and developing an unexplained obsession with Harry Styles and fan fiction.

    You can read more about Joanna here.

    You can buy The Rest Is Silence:Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death her with code FAL25 for 30% off.

    How do I cite the episode in my research and reading lists?


    To cite this episode, you can use the following citation:

    Stalnaker, J. (2026) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox,B. and Visser, R. Published 1 September 2026. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.33406186


    What next?

    Check out more episodes or find out more about the hosts! Gota question? Get in touch.
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    1 ora e 1 min
  • J.T. Welsch on poetry and suicide, poets’ lives, autoethnography, memoir, suicidology, creative writing, language and the messiness of life

    J.T. Welsch on poetry and suicide, poets’ lives, autoethnography, memoir, suicidology, creative writing, language and the messiness of life
    Aug 1 2026

    Who is J.T. Welsch?

    J. T. Welsch is a writer and academic born in the US andbased in the UK, where he teaches at the University of York. He is the author of several books of and about poetry, including Orchids (2010), The Hell Creek Anthology (2015) and The Selling and Self-Regulation of Contemporary Poetry (2020). He also edited the anthology of migrant poetry Wretched Strangers (2018) with Ágnes Lehóczky. His writing has appeared in Poetry Review, Boston Review and the Guardian. In this episode hear about his new book on The Poetry of Suicide: Lessons in grief from the lives and deaths of poets.

    In the episode introduction, you heard from:

    Joshua Hurtado Hurtado, PhD, University of Helsinki and Jason Glynos, Professor at the Department of Government, University of Essex about their new article, "Thanabots, fantasy, and theethics of mourning", published in AI & Society. You can find ithere: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03200-9

    And then Dr. Mórna O’Connor on her and Dr Dorthe Refslund Christensen's new collection, Creative and Aesthetic Ways of Grief: "All Things Reimagined".How do I cite the episode in my research and reading lists?

    To cite this episode, you can use the following citation:

    Welsch, J.T. (2026) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 1 August 2026. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.33129308

    What next?

    Check out more ⁠episodes⁠ or find out more about the ⁠hosts! ⁠Gota question? ⁠Get in touch⁠.
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    1 ora e 15 min
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