Death and the Afterlife: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from a Global City (Routledge Advances in Sociology)

About the Author

Kit Ying Lye is currently Senior Lecturer at the Singapore University of Social Sciences. Her research interests are mainly, the Cold War in Southeast Asia, history and its remembrance, and death in Southeast Asian literature and culture, and Southeast Asian Cultural Heritage. She is the co-editor for a forthcoming volume titled Reading Violence and Trauma in Asia and the World.Terence Heng is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of four books, including Visual Methods in the Field (2016), Of Gods, Gifts and Ghosts: Spiritual Places in Urban Spaces (2020) and Diasporas, Weddings and the Trajectories of Ethnicity (2020). His research ambulates through the intersections of cultural geography, visual sociology and photographic practice, investigating diasporic Chinese identities, sacred space-making amongst Chinese Singaporeans, and visual methods.