Mourning Diana

Mourning Diana examines the events which followed the death of Diana as a series of cultural-political phenomena, examining the performance of grief and the involvement of the global media.

Adrian Kear is lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at the Roehampton Institute. Deborah Lynn Steinberg is lecturer in Gender Relations at Warwick University.

Preface: Mourning Diana and the Scholarly Ethic, Adrian Kear and Deborah Lynn Steinberg Ghost Writing, Adrian Kear and Deborah Lynn Steinberg Exemplary Differences: Mourning (and not mourning) a Princess, Richard Johnson Our Lady of Flowers: The ambiguous politics of Diana's Floral Revolution, Susan Greenhalgh Be(long)ing: New Labour, New Britain and the Dianaisation of Politics, Valerie Hey 'That which is taken from me is not mine':Rhetoric, Nation and the People's Property, Joe Kelleher The Crowd in the Age of Diana: Ordinary Inventiveness and the Popular Imagination, Valerie Walkerdine Diana and Race: Romance and the Reconfiguration of the Nation, Mica Nava Mourning Diana, Jatinder Verma Celebrity and the Politics of Charity: Memories of a Missionary Departed, Arvind Rajagopal Mourning at a Distance: Australians and the Death of a British Princess Jean Duruz and Carol Johnson I'd Rather be the Princess than the Queen! Mourning Diana as Gay Icon, William J.Spurlin Diana Between Two Deaths: Spectral Ethics and the Time of Mourning, Adrian Kear Downloading Grief: Minority Populations Mourn Diana, Diana Taylor