Walking up & down Venice Blvd. in The City of Angels, listening to >>The Unclaimed<< by Pamela Prickett & Stefan Timmermans🥑, finding its complicated, textured take on abandoned lives & the need for care in the late-modern city deeply resonant with everyday experience here.

The folks at Daily Bruin are frankly too busy covering everything to say this, but here's where I will note that you can donate to UCLA's student newspaper here -> uclastudentmedia.com/donate/

New Blog! Trevor Auldridge-Reveles (Trevor Auldridge Reveles, @UCSantaBarbara) and Demetrius Miles Murphy (@DMu_rph, USC) call for a sociology of flourishing: 'Understanding the mechanisms driving ill-being does not mean we know how to foster well-being.' contexts.org/blog/sociology…

📒 Join our book launch on 29 May on 'The Unclaimed. Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels', with author Pamela Prickett 🗓️

'A rare and compassionate look into the lives of Americans who go unclaimed when they die' (Matthew Desmond - Matthew Desmond)

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At the LA festival of books 😊

Getting read for this once in a lifetime experience 🎉
Stefan Timmermans🥑 Crown Publishing

Hey friends in the NY area! Next week is my book talk and party. Please come and celebrate with me.

If you're someone who likes to push yourself to use more precise language, highly encourage you to read this post. Let's indeed stop assuming biological or legal closeness means 'loved one'

ICYMI our loved ones blog John MacArtney

Reflects Pamela Prickett & Stefan Timmermans🥑’s magnificent new book “The Unclaimed” which shows that policy on & language about relationships (inc family & communities) at EOL are not keeping up with how said relationships are changing

Y'all, this is a dream come true!!! 😍

A friend texted that her grandmother read #TheUnclaimed in one day. She then picked up the phone and called her sister-in-law who lives alone in another state. They made a plan for the sister-in-law's wishes after death. Can't think of a better reader endorsement 🙏

Kindred spirit

What happens to the more than 1,500 who die in Los Angeles and go unclaimed each year?

'These unclaimed are not 'them,' they are us,' Stefan Timmermans🥑 and Pamela Prickett discuss their book, THE UNCLAIMED
dailynews.com/2024/04/16/wha… Crown Publishing

Appreciate the opportunity this interview afforded us to reflect on our disposition wishes after writing #TheUnclaimed and what we think the rising number of unclaimed deaths says about America's obsession with individualism

dailynews.com/2024/04/16/wha…

What a wonderful surprise to have 'Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics' reviewed in The New Republic in dialogue with 'The Unclaimed', the crucial new book by my mentor Stefan Timmermans🥑 and fellow UCLA alum Pamela Prickett !!

grateful Scott W. Stern for this sharp piece

The takeaway: 'we are at a crossroads. We can choose to arm our homes, to militarize our public spaces, to lock away those abandoned by society. Or we can choose to address the causes of poverty, isolation, and despair. We cannot choose both.'

Thanks, as always, to Laura Marsh

A true privilege to write about two new books in The New Republic:

'The Unclaimed' by Pamela Prickett & Stefan Timmermans🥑 (@CrownPublishing)

'Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics' by neil gong (@UChicagoPress) newrepublic.com/article/178192…

What an honor to be reviewed alongside fellow UCLA sociology alum neil gong! Thank you for the thoughtful review Scott W. Stern and The New Republic

Very pleased to share the details of this year’s Centre for Death and Society: CDAS conference. Thank you to everyone who submitted an abstract and to those who will present at the conference.

Brilliant few days to look forward to in June 🤩

Join us, our lovely CDAS community

It has been a minute since I've been on here, but #ISA2024 made me miss it and there is so much happening that feels important to share. Top of that list is that we are hosting a Feminist Peace Summit in Denver in a few weeks and you can still register: feministpeacesummit.org