{"product_id":"sister-death-by-beatrice-marovich-9780231208376","title":"Sister Death","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLife and death are commonly seen as representing the starkest of binaries: Death is the ultimate adversary of all that lives. Beatrice Marovich argues that such understandings of mortality have been deeply influenced by a strain of Christian political theology that has left its mark on both religious and secular narratives. Adapting the figure of \u003cem\u003eSister Death\u003c\/em\u003e from Saint Francis of Assisi, she calls for recognising that life and death are family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on a wide range of sources—from Toni Morrison to Jacques Derrida, psychoanalysis to grassroots \"death positive\" movements—Marovich critiques a racialised political theology that pits life and death against each other in a state of endless war. In a time of extinctions, it is necessary to disrupt this dominant story in order to apprehend death as a collective, multi-species event. \u003cem\u003eSister Death\u003c\/em\u003e proposes an alternative view in which life and death are not mortal enemies destined for mutual destruction. Instead, they are engaged in a contested, tense, and sometimes mutually empowering form of connection—a sisterhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEloquent and approachable, this book deftly integrates the insights of a number of disciplines to provide a profound reconsideration of the relations between life and death. \u003cem\u003eSister Death\u003c\/em\u003e also features a series of original works by the artist Krista Dragomer that stage an ongoing conceptual conversation with the text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461365088492,"sku":"9780231208376","price":60.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780231208376-sister-death.jpg?v=1774966984","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/sister-death-by-beatrice-marovich-9780231208376","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}