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Overview

Tony Walter is affiliated with the University of Bath in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with notable contributions to Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Geography, Planning and Development, History, and Political Science and International Relations.

The scientist's work frequently explores topics related to grief, bereavement, and mental health; memory, trauma, and commemoration; geographies of human-animal interactions; death anxiety and social exclusion; German history and society; European history and politics; as well as labor movements and unions.

Tony Walter has published numerous articles in academic journals, primarily in the venue Mortality, with others appearing in the Sociological Journal. Key recent papers include:

  • 'Heading for Extinction': how the climate and ecological emergency reframes mortality (2022, Mortality)
  • On consolation: finding solace in dark times (2022, Mortality)
  • Tourism and memory: visitor experiences of the Nazi and GDR past (2022, Mortality)
  • Resonance and alienation in dying (2025, Mortality)
  • Death online in contemporary Russia: memory, forgetting and the connective presence of mourning on the internet (2021, Mortality)

The scientist frequently collaborates with Tara Bailey.

In addition to articles, Tony Walter has published a book titled Global Framework Agreements with the publisher Nomos in 2024.

Best Publications

  • A new model of grief: Bereavement and biography

    Tony Walter

  • Modern Death: Taboo or not Taboo?

    Tony Walter

  • Does the internet change how we die and mourn? Overview and analysis

    Tony Walter;Rachid Hourizi;Wendy Moncur;Stacey Pitsillides

  • The religiosity of women in the modern West

    Tony Walter;Grace Davie

  • Processes of grieving: How bonds are continued.

    Dennis Klass;Tony Walter

  • Pilgrimage in popular culture

    Ian Reader;Tony Walter

  • Death in the News: The Public Invigilation of Private Emotion:

    Tony Walter;Jane Littlewood;Michael Pickering

  • Historical and cultural variants on the good death

    Tony Walter

  • Spirituality in palliative care: opportunity or burden?

    T Walter

  • Dark tourism: mediating between the dead and the living

    Tony Walter

  • Three ways to arrange a funeral: Mortuary variation in the modern West

    Tony Walter

  • The eclipse of eternity

    Tony Walter

  • Circles of care: should community development redefine the practice of palliative care?

    Julian Abel;Tony Walter;Lindsay B. Carey;John P. Rosenberg

  • New Public Management and New Professionalism across Nations and Contexts

    Kevin T. Leicht;Tony Walter;Ivan Sainsaulieu;Scott Davies

  • The ideology and organization of spiritual care: three approaches

    Tony Walter

  • The mourning for Diana

    Tony Walter

  • War Grave Pilgrimage

    Tony Walter

  • HIERARCHIES OF LOSS: A CRITIQUE OF DISENFRANCHISED GRIEF

    Patricia Robson;Tony Walter

  • Choice and compassion at the end of life: A critical analysis of recent English policy discourse

    Erica Borgstrom;Tony Walter

  • The Sociology of Death

    Tony Walter

  • Body Worlds: clinical detachment and anatomical awe

    Tony Walter

  • The revival of death

    Tony Walter

Frequent Co-Authors

Linda Clare
Linda Clare University of Exeter
Richard Velleman
Richard Velleman University of Bath
Linda Bauld
Linda Bauld University of Edinburgh
Scott Davies
Scott Davies University of Toronto

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