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Thanatoactivism: The Dead, Emancipation, and the Fight for Justice

Alasia Nuti | Leverhulme Trust Fellowship

Is there anything wrong in using the dead for the sake of the living? The question points to dilemmas facing “thanatoactivism” — activism that reinstates the dead into politics. Focusing on LGBTQ+ struggles, this project will develop a framework helping us to navigate our conflicting intuitions about activism in the name of the dead, for the sake of the living. What political work is it legitimate to ask the dead to do? When does it translate into their instrumentalization and exploitation? These are the two main questions the project aims to answer.

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