Handbook of Social Justice in Loss and Grief

The second edition of the Handbook of Social Justice in Loss and Grief has been completely overhauled, with twenty-six new chapters by leaders in the fields of social justice, socially just practice, death, dying, loss, and grief. The chapters include opportunities for learning, reflection, and application to both clinical practice and scholarly discourse in the field. This is a scholarly work of social criticism, richly grounded in personal experience, evocative case studies, and current multicultural and sociocultural theories and research. It is also consistently practical and reflective, challenging readers to think through responses to ethically complex scenarios in which social justice is undermined by radically uneven opportunity structures, hierarchies of voice and privilege, personal and professional power, and unconscious assumptions, at the very junctures when people are most vulnerable-at points of serious illness, confrontations with end-of-life decision making, and in the throes of grief and bereavement.

Darcy L. Harris is professor emeritus in the Department of Thanatology at King's University College in London, Ontario, Canada, as well as a faculty member for the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition in the USA. Tashel C. Bordere is a researcher at the Center for Family Policy & Research at the University of Missouri and a consultant. She is the immediate past president of the National Alliance for Children's Grief. Lisa McLean is an assistant professor in the Department of Thanatology at King's University College in London, Ontario, Canada, and is the director of the Grief and Loss Research Lab.

Part 1: Introductory Concepts 1. Social Justice Conceptualizations in Loss and Grief 3. Living, Suffering, and Dying in a Globalized World Part 2: Identity, Lived Experience, and Grief5. Black Parenting, Resistance, and Oppression in Loss and Grief 6. Loss and Grief among LGBTQ+ Youth Emerging into Adulthood 7. Intersectionality, Loss, and Student Grief in College 8. Loss and Grief in Canada's First Nations People 9. Ageism, Loss, and Spiritual Diminishment 10. "I'm open to facing the fear as well as the good": Enfranchised Grief and Intellectual Disability Part 3: Health and Health Care 11. Iatrogenic Harm and Objectification in the Context of Care Delivery 12. Exploring Equity and Egalitarian Perspectives in End of Life Care 13. Medicalizing Grief 14. The Politics of Care and Care as Politics Part 4: Socio-political Dynamics of Grief and Loss15. Political Grief 16. Loss Related to Regime Change: Mourning Hong Kong 20. Reproductive (in)Justice Work: Witnessing Grief and Seeking Joy 21. Disappearance, Forced Disappearance, and Ambiguous Loss Part 5: Implications and Responses 22. Grief Activism: Climate Grief and Youth-Led Activism 23. Alliances and Advocacy 24. Cultural Competence and Humility 25. Spirituality and Ritual in Response to Social Injustice 26. Death Education and Literacy as a Social Justice Issue Conclusion