Postmortem Agency (Other Keyword)
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Living Tactically: Postmortem Agency and Individual Identity in Institutional Burials (2017)
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Structure and institutional durability often play a role in the manifestation of identity by shaping the avenues available to human actors and by creating the landscape in which these actions are carried out. However, through durable institutions move volatile agents who have the ability to act tactically within often immobile institutional environments. These constraints and freedoms of individuals within institutional settings often culminate in the representation of an individual in death,...