ABSTRACT
Working from the motif of theoretical ‘turns’ taken within academic traditions this chapter argues for the emergence of a ‘death turn’ across a spectrum of disciplines while also observing some of the motivating and constraining dynamics between disciplinary commitments and interdisciplinarity. It offers an innovative formula explaining how emotions transform ‘ideas’ into ‘values’, to ‘identity’, and even to ‘destiny’, all in relation to theories of grief, reciprocity and dual sovereignty, and framed by the material culture of mourning.
