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Article

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Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

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5.4 SOCIOLOGY, Social sciences

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Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung

Abstract

»Habitus, die Texte der irischen Hungerstreikenden und Elias', Die Einsamkeit der Sterbenden'«. Elias maintained that over the course of several centuries death has become associated with greater shame and embarrassment feelings due mainly to four interwoven processes. In this paper we consider how these specific processes or 'special conditions' Elias referred to, in conjunction with other processes, shaped the experience of dying and the image of death for twentieth century Irish hunger strikers.

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http://www.jstor.org/stable/44469364

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