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AbstractThis article contributes to discussions on culture wars, memory politics, and the politics of dead bodies. It uses the example of the annual celebration of the liberation of the city of Pilsen by the American army in 1945 to demonstrate the use of the concept of "political necromancy." The Pilsen celebrations are one of the events during which participating politicians use fallen (or suffering) soldiers as an argument to support current political goals. Metaphorically, the politician as a necromancer brings the fallen back to life and sends them as an army of the dead to fight in culture wars and memory wars. The article focuses on introducing the different strategies used in this process (depersonalizing the fallen or creating a ghost hero) and shows how dead bodies and the appropriate use of memory politics are used to bolster foreign policy ties to the US and to lash out against Russia and communism.

AbstractIn the middle of the nineteenth century, in the Russian Empire, a new set of state-sponsored provincial newspapers began to include notices seeking fugitives and trying to identify arrested vagrants and found dead bodies. The notices were part of a larger effort to match individuals with specific legal identities based in social estate (soslovie). In principle, every individual subject of the Russian Empire belonged to a specific owner (in the case of serfs) or to a specific soslovie society (in the case of nearly everyone else). The notices were an effort to link people who had left their proper place to their "real" identity. To accomplish this, the notices also made use of a kind of simple biometrics or anthropometrics in order to move beyond an individual's telling of his or her own identity. By listing height, hair and eye color, the shape of nose, mouth, and chin, and other identifying features, the notices were intended to allow for more exact identification. This version of identification developed out of previous practices grounded in the documentary requirements of the tsarist state, and they were slightly ahead of their time in the context of nineteenth-century developments in the sphere of identification practices. They were also distinct from other kinds of anthropometric practices of classification developed at the same time or soon thereafter—where many sought to use physical measurements to classify people by race or by inclination to criminality, the Russian system had no such goals.

For a long period of time, the main regulator of relations associated with various encroachments on the bodies of the dead and the places of their burial was religion; however, the transition of society from traditional to post-industrial predetermined the changes in settlement of the analyzed crimes. In order to preserve the moral principles and moral health of society, the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation singles out an independent group of crimes that infringe on public morality, one of which is Desecration of the dead bodies and their burial places. The article discusses issues related to the commission of encroachments on the bodies of the dead and the places of their burial. They presented the description and characteristics of the objects of encroachment, as well as qualified compositions. The dialectical approach to the disclosure of legal phenomena and processes using general scientific (systemic, logical, analysis and synthesis) and specific scientific methods are utilized to gratify the aims of the study. The author substantiates the consistency of the approach regarding the synonymy of the concept "violation" and "desecration".

Discusses the growing imbalance between where people are dying & where there is space to bury them, & suggests a surprising solution that Australian entrepreneurs could develop. The baby boomers phenomenon will place increasing pressure due to shortages of burial space in North America & Western Europe. Ample space for cemeteries could be provided in the Australian Outback. Arguments are made for the practicality of this idea from the transport of bodies to the creation of a funeral tourism industry & the provision of Internet observation of funerals & visits to the gravesite. L. A. Hoffman

Olivia Barr argued that the common law is carried on the surface of bodies and transferred through encounters, creating, altering and organising 'lawful relations'. She also argued that the common law is reconstituted through these movements, particularly the place-making activities of burying the dead. However, if the lawful treatment of the dead is cleaved from burial, can the dead still be constitutive of the common law or does this potentiate alternative nomoi? Through a material metaphor of dance, biogram and lawscape, the author explores the potential for different configurations of jurisdiction in events following the 2018 Humboldt Broncos bus crash.