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Associate Professor Ruth McManus

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Department: Sociology and Anthropology

Email: ruth.mcmanus@canterbury.ac.nz

Phone Number: +64 3 369 3999 ext. null

Office: Elsie Locke Building 309

Language: English

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Research / Creative works
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Fields of Research

  • Death and dying
  • Bio-cremation
  • Social theory (governmentality, ANT)
  • Globalisation and welfare states
  • Funeral costs
  • Disaster sociology
  • Bereavement
  • Social policy
  • water conservation
  • Social aspects of palliative care
  • Emotion in social relations
  • sociology of everyday life (place-making)

Researcher Summary

I have developed and established three strands of research. In the Death studies strand I have undertaken groundbreaking, externally funded research on poverty and funerals in New Zealand, and have published various innovative articles and a path-breaking monograph in this area. My most recent research  on bio-cremation synthesises my interest in sustainability issues with new technologically advanced forms of body dissolution.

This research development links to my second research strand, which is a concern with social issues that involve people's engagement with their built environment and local resources. This includes my externally funded grants on water use in Christchurch (City of Flows) and the effects of the Christchurch earthquake in terms of experiences of socio-spatial disruption and adjustment (Stories of Movement and Womens' Voices Project), also my editorial work on Disaster sociology.

Both these research strands complement a longstanding engagement with policy debates and initiatives especially when they impact upon people's quality of life.

One other strand is my concern to invest and participate in furthering the discipline of sociology through research on teaching in the discipline.

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Sociology, Social Policy, Social Work, Criminology and Gender Studies: Methodology; Social Policy; Sociology
  • Resilience: Social: People and Community

Resources

  • Staff webpage

Prizes and Awards

  • SAANZ Exceptional Service Award ( 2020 - present )
  • Social Science Research Centre, Canterbury University ( 2000 - 2005)

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

  • McManus R. (2021) Sustainability through adversity? The impact of the earthquake on the greening of death. Lincoln University, Canterbury, NZ: SAANZ annual conference, 25 Nov 2021. (Oral Presentations)
  • McManus R. (2021) Sustainabiity through adversity? The impact of the Canterbury Earthquakes on the Greening of Death. In Matthewman S; Uekusa S; Glavovic B (Ed.), A Decade of Disaster Experience in Christchurch (Ōtautahi), New Zealand: Critical Disaster Studies PerspectivesPalgrave/Springer. (Chapters)
  • McManus R. (2020) The Sustainable Dead: Seeds of cultural syncretism in body disposal. e-conference hosted by York St John University: Death And Culture III 2020, 3-4 Sep 2020. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • McManus R. (2019) Chapter one: Introduction. In McManus R; Cornwall J; Raudon S (Ed.), Death Down Under: Twenty-first Century Dying, Death, Disposal and Memorialisation in the Antipodes: 1-8. Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars. (Chapters)
  • McManus R., Blake D. and Johnston D. (2019) The penguin and the wahine: shipwrecks, resilience, and popular culture. In Teodorescu A; Jacobsen MH (Ed.), Death in Contemporary Popular Culture: 65-80. London: Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429197024-5. (Chapters)
  • McManus R., Matthewman S., Brickell C., McLennan G. and Spoonley P. (2019) Exploring Society: Sociology for New Zealand Students. (4th ed.) Auckland: Auckland University Press. 492. (Edited Volumes)
  • McManus R; Raudon S; Cornwall J (Ed.) McManus R. (2019) Death Down Under. (1st ed.) Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars. (Edited Volumes)
  • Nissen S., Hayward B. and McManus R. (2019) Student debt and wellbeing: a research agenda. Kotuitui 14(2): 245-256. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1177083X.2019.1614635. (Journal Articles)
  • Cornwall J., Poppelwell Z. and McManus R. (2018) “Why did you really do it?” A mixed-method analysis of the factors underpinning motivations to register as a body donor. Anatomical Sciences Education 11(6): 623-631. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ase.1796. (Journal Articles)
  • McManus R. (2018) A watery end: Innovations in sustainable body dissolution. In Johnson E (Ed.), Death and Dying in New Zealand Christchurch: Freerange Press. (Chapters)
  • McManus R. (2018) Distress Purchases: A Mixed Methods Study. In Tolich M; Davidson C (Ed.), Social Science Research in New Zealand: An Introduction: 329-338. Auckland: Auckland University Press. (Chapters)
  • McManus R., Elliot M., Mayell M. and Harrington E. (2018) Death and Dying at the Teece. Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities, # HEreford St, Christchurch, NZ: Death and Dying at the Teece, 11 Dec 2018. (Oral Presentations)
  • McManus R., Walter T. and Claridge L. (2018) Restoration and loss after disaster: Applying the dual-process model of coping in bereavement. Death Studies 42(7): 405-414. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2017.1366599. (Journal Articles)
  • Schafer CT. and McManus R. (2018) Memento Mori and tourist encounters with authentic death in European ossuaries. In Kaul A; Skinner J (Ed.), Leisure and Death: An Anthropological Tour of Risk, Death, and Dying Boulder: University of Colorado Press. (Chapters)
  • McManus R. (2017) Memento Mori Aoteroa. Preston, Lancashire, UK: Death Dying and Disposal 13, 6-9 Sep 2017. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • McManus R. (2017) The Sociology of death and dying. In Korgen KO (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Sociology: 256-262. New York: Cambridge University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781316418369.027. (Chapters)
  • Blake D., McManus R. and Johnston D. (2016) Memorialising Disasters. Christchurch, New Zealand: People in Disasters: Response, recovery, resilience, 24-26 Feb 2016. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • McManus R. (2016) Keynote Speaker on DEATH AND DYING for WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival 2016. Christchurch, New Zealand: WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival. (Oral Presentations)
  • McManus R. (2016) Online memorials as sites of collective grief and memorialisation. Centre for Death and Society, Bath, UK: Survival, 18-19 Jun 2016. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • McManus R. (2016) Overseas and New Zealand Trends in Burials and Cremations. Nelson, New Zealand: Cemeteries and Crematoria Conference 2016, 14-16 Mar 2016. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • McManus R. (2016) Transitional Memorials. Napier, NZ: SAANZ annual conference, 22-24 Nov 2016. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • McManus R. (2016) Transitional Memorials. Online memorials for the Christchurch Earthquakes and the Pike River mine explosion. Dublin, Ireland: Death, Burial and the Afterlife in the Arts and Humanities, 20-23 Jun 2016. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Schafer CT. and McManus R. (2016) Authenticity, Informality and Privacy in Contemporary New Zealand Post- Mortem Practices. In Dobscha S (Ed.), Death in a Consumer Culture: 57-74. London: Routledge. (Chapters)
  • McManus R. (2015) Barnaby Bennett, James Dann, Emma Johnston, Ryan Reynolds (eds.), Once in a lifetime: City-building after Disaster in Christchurch. Christchurch: Freerange Press, 2014; 512pp. New Zealand Sociology 30(1): 252-256. [Book Review]. (Other)
  • McManus R. (2015) Women's Voices: Solace and social innovation in the aftermath of the 2010 Christchurch earthquakes. Women's Studies Journal 29(2): 22-41. (Journal Articles)
  • McManus R. and Gallagher JM. (2015) "It really was a shock to the system" - a socio-technical study of the effects of the Christchurch earthquakes on water conservation habits. New Zealand Sociology 30(1): 63-89. (Journal Articles)
  • McManus R., Johnston D. and Glavovic B. (2015) Contested meanings of recovery: a critical exploration of the Canterbury earthquakes-voices from the social sciences. Kotuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences 10(2): 69-71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1177083X.2015.1076863. (Journal Articles)
  • McManus R. (2014) Listening to Women's voices: The work of sociology in resilience after the Christchurch Earthquakes. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand: Arts Scholars Masters Class Series. (Oral Presentations)
  • McManus R. (2014) Women's Voices: Findings solace out of disaster. Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand: Sociology Seminar. (Oral Presentations)
  • McManus R. (2014) Women's Voices: Finding solace out of disaster. Christchurch, New Zealand: Annual Conference of the Sociological Association of Aotearoa-New Zealand (SAANZ), 3-5 Dec 2014. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • McManus R. and Schafer C. (2014) Final Arrangements: Examining debt and distress. Mortality 19(4): 379-397. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2014.948413. (Journal Articles)
  • McManus R. (2013) Watching Real Death is Good?! University of Glasgow, UK: Sociology Department Research Seminar Series. (Oral Presentations)
  • McManus R. (2013) Bio-cremation in the United Kingdom: Case study of a new technology. Auckland, New Zealand: Annual Conference of the Sociological Association of Aoteroa New Zealand (SAANZ), 9-11 Dec 2013. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • McManus R. (2013) Finding Solace in Death and Destruction: From the Clydebank Blitz to the Christchurch Earthquakes. Edinburgh, UK: Death in Modern Scotland, 1-3 Feb 2013. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • McManus R. (2013) Getting here - again. University of Auckland, New Zealand: SAANZ 2013, 9-11 Dec 2013. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • McManus R. (2013) Women's Voices Finding Solace: Emotional narratives of coping with mass destruction and loss. Alba Iulia, Romania: The Sixth Edition of Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe, International Conference (ABDD06), Eastern and Western Ways of Death, 26-28 Sep 2013. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • McCrone J. (2012) Ashes to ashes: Our fascination with the meaning of death. The Press: Mainlander 12 May 2012: 1-3. [Newspaper Article]. (Other)
  • McManus R. (2012) Keynote presentation. Wellington Museum, Wellington, New Zealand: Death and Diversity Exhibition. (Oral Presentations)
  • McManus R. (2012) Culture, death and dying with dignity. Health Sociology Review 21(4): 370-372. (Journal Articles)
  • McManus R. (2012) Death in a Global Age. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 280pp. (Authored Books)
  • McManus R. (2012) Death representations and new media. Dunedin, New Zealand: Death Down Under Conference, 28-29 Jun 2012. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • McManus R. (2012) Editorial: Culture, death and dying with dignity. Health Sociology Review 21(4): 370-372. (Journal Articles)
  • McManus R. (2012) Emotions and Attitudes to the Cost of Funerals in New Zealand. Brisbane, Australia: Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference 2012, 26-29 Nov 2012. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • McManus R. (2011) Watching Death on the Net is Good. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand: Sociology Department Research Seminar. (Oral Presentations)
  • McManus R. (2011) Real death on the internet. Nijmegen, Netherlands: 10th International Conference on the Social Context of Death, Dying and Disposal (DDD10), 9-12 Sep 2011. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • McManus R. and Du Plessis R. (2011) On death and dying. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand: Launch of Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand website. (Oral Presentations)
  • McManus R. and Du Plessis R. (2011) Death and dying. In Phillips J (Ed.), Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, Social Connections: Life Stages and Population Wellington: Ministry for Culture and Heritage. (Chapters)
  • Sampson K., Goodrich C. and McManus R. (2011) Rural families, industry change and social capital: Some consideration for policy. Social Policy Journal of New Zealand 37(Jun 2011). (Journal Articles)
  • McManus R. (2010) A Decent Send-off: Scottish internment practices. University of Bath, Bath, UK: Centre for Death & Society Annual Conference: A Good Send Off, 19-19 Jun 2010. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • McManus R. (2010) New ways of Belonging? Kiwi Icons in Internment Practices. Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand: Death Studies in Aotearoa/New Zealand - A Symposium, 11-11 Nov 2010. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • McLennan G., Spoonley P. and McManus R. (2009) Exploring Society: Sociology for New Zealand Students. (3rd ed.) Auckland: Pearson Education. 376pp. (Edited Volumes)
  • McManus R. (2009) Feelings and Finance in New Zealand funerals. Palmerston North, New Zealand: Crunch Times: Can science make a difference? Sociological Association of Aoteroa New Zealand 2009 Conference, 22-24 Nov 2009. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • McManus R. (2009) Work-Life Balance: A Case of Technical Disempowerment? Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society 16(1): 111-131. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxp004. (Journal Articles)
  • McManus R. (2008) "Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth-Century Australia: War, Medicine and the Funeral Business" by Pat Jalland (University of New South Wales Press, 2006. viii plus 409pp.). Journal of Social History 42(2): 535-537. [Book review]. (Other)
  • McManus R. (2008) Between a rock and a hard place - the fads and frictions of bodily disposal in a globally informed age. Christchurch, New Zealand: Association for Women in the Sciences Conference, 2-4 Jul 2008. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • McManus R. (2008) Grief in the garden: the cultural production of suburbia. York, UK: Ninth Colloquium on Cemeteries, 23-23 May 2008. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • McManus R. (2008) Reconciling grief in suburban gardens. In Vanclay F; Higgins M; Blackshaw A (Ed.), Making Sense of Place: Exploring concepts and expressions of place through different senses and lenses: 175-181. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press. (Chapters)
  • McManus R. (2007) Between a Rock and a Hard Place. Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK: 18 Apr 2006. (Oral Presentations)
  • McManus R. (2007) Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Bodily Disposal in a global age. Glasgow Caledonian University, UK: 26 Apr 2006. (Oral Presentations)
  • McManus R. (2007) Death in a global age. University of York, UK: Sociology Departmental Seminar, 12 Apr 2006. (Oral Presentations)
  • McManus R. (2007) 35 entries. London: Routledge. [Encyclopedia Entry]. (Other)
  • McManus R. (2007) Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Bodily Disposal in a Global Age. University of East London, UK: British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2007 (BSA), 12-14 Apr 2007. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • McManus R. (2007) Grief In The Garden: The Cultural Production Of Suburbia. Auckland, New Zealand: TASA & SAANZ Joint Conference 2007, 4-7 Dec 2007. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • McManus R. (2007) Multi-cultural death practices. (3522) [Print interview]. (Other)
  • McManus R. (2007) Tissue Economies: Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism. By Catherine Waldby and Robert Mitchell. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006, Oo, viii+232. American Journal of Sociology 112(6): 1939-1941. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/519707. [Book Review]. (Other)
  • McManus R. and Schafer C. (2007) Final Arrangements: Attitudes to Funeral Costs in New Zealand. [External Research Grant]. (Other)
  • McManus R. (2006) Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Emergent Trends in Bodily Disposal. Hamilton, New Zealand: Annual Conference of the Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (SAANZ): Connections and Disconnections, 22-24 Nov 2006. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • McManus R. (2006) Contributing essay for photo-exhibition 'Caring for the Dead' by Bridgit Anderson, SOFA Gallery, The Arts Centre, Christchurch, 13 Jun-23 Jul 2006. . (Other)
  • McManus R. (2006) Dead Men's Geraniums: Placing Grief and Mourning. Hobart, Australia: Senses of Place: Joint Conference of the Place Research Network, the National Museum of Australia, the Mountain Festival and the Community, Place and Change Theme Area of the University of Tasmania, 5-8 Apr 2006. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • McManus R. (2006) Referee report for the Research Grants Board of the Economic and Social Research Council (UK). Reference no. REES-02602300448. . (Other)
  • McManus R. (2006) Responsibility in the research process. Higher Education Academy's Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics, the Centre for Social Work and Policy and Sheffield Hallam University. [Web Resource]. (Other)
  • McManus R. (2006) Shifting Practices in New Zealand Sociology. New Zealand Sociology 21(2): 270-288. (Journal Articles)
  • McManus R. (2006) Marketing a Monster? Teaching social theory in the globalised market of New Zealand Higher Education. In Cope J; Canaan JE; Harris D (Ed.), Learning and Teaching Social Theory: 138-163. Birmingham: C-SAP, The Higher Education Academy. (Chapters)
  • McManus R. (2005) Freedom and Suicide: A Genealogy of Suicide Regulation in New Zealand 1840-2000. Journal of Historical Sociology 18(4): 430-456. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6443.2005.00263.x. (Journal Articles)
  • McManus R. (2005) Marketing the Monster: Teaching Social Theory in the Globalised Market of New Zealand Higher Education. Birmingham, UK: C-SAP Seminar "Teaching Social Theory", 18 Mar 2005. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • McManus R. (2005) Whose role is it anyway? Implementing work-life balance practices in New Zealand. Manchester, UK: First International Conference on Community, Work and Family: Change and Transformation, 16 Mar 2005. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • McManus R. (2004) Quixotic Adventures: Researching the Inclusion Strategies of Suicide Prevention. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia: Mobile Boundaries/Rigid Worlds: The Contemporary Paradox - 2nd Annual Conference of the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, 27 Sep 2004. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • McManus R. (2004) Suicide Prevention as Cultural Production. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia: Centre for Reserach on Social Inclusion Annual Conference, 1 Sep 2004. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • McManus R. (2004) Suicide Subjects: Regulating Suicide to Dis-Empower Death. Mortality 9(3): 189-205. (Journal Articles)
  • McManus R. and Lilley S. (2004) Whose role is it anyway? Implementing work-life balance practices in New Zealand. Wellington, New Zealand: Ministry of Social Development Annual Social Policy, Research and Evaluation Conference, 25 Nov 2004. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • McManus R. (2003) Quixotic Adventures: studying community participation in suicide prevention. Social Science Research Centre, Canterbury Univers: Social Policy Network Seminar. (Oral Presentations)
  • McManus R. (2003) Bad Death: Sociology and the Moral Regulation of Suicide in New Zealand. Palmerston North, New Zealand. Massey University. (Theses / Dissertations)
  • McManus R. (2003) The Compassionate Self - New Zealand Bereaved by Suicide Support Groups and Moral Regulation. Christchurch, New Zealand: Social Science in the 21st Century: Sociological Association of Aotearoa (NZ) Conference, 5 Dec 2003. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • McManus R. (2003) The New Zealand Care Gap. Auckland, New Zealand: Sociological Association of New Zealand Annual Conference, 1 Dec 2003. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • McManus R. (2000) The Moral Regulation of Suicide in New Zealand: 1840- 1999. Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand: Sociological Association of New Zealand Annual Conference, 1 Dec 2000. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • McManus R. (1998) Representing Suicide: Methodological Approaches. Massey University, Palmerston North, NZ: Nursing Studies Post-Graduate Seminar, 27 Jun 2005. (Oral Presentations)
  • McManus R. (1998) Silencing Suicide: An analysis of representations of Suicide in late 1990s New Zealand. Massey University Palmerston North NZ: Women's Studies Departmental Seminar., 30 Nov 2005. (Oral Presentations)
  • McManus R. (1998) Representations of Suicide : Controlling Collective Perceptions? Queensland Institute of Technology, Brisbane, Aus: The Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference, 1 Dec 1998. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • McManus R. (1997) The Social Construction of Suicide: Issues and Dilemmas. Massey University, Albany, New Zealand: Sociological Association of New Zealand Annual Conference, 1 Dec 1997. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • McManus Ruth. (1990) Getting Here. In Scanlon J (Ed.), Surviving the Blues: Growing Up in the Thatcher Decade: 134—47. London: Virago Press. (Chapters)

Editorial Work

  • Health Sociology Review Editor, Special Issue ( 2011 - 2023)
  • Journal editing and refereeing Editor ( 2012 - 2017)
  • Death Down Under Chief Editor ( 2016 - 2023)
  • Exploring Society: Sociology for New Zealand Students Chief Editor ( 2017 - 2023)

Review and Refereeing

  • Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies ( 2000 - 2005)
  • Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies ( 2005 - 2023)
  • Mortality ( 2010 - 2023)
  • New Zealand Sociology ( 2010 - 2017)
  • SITES: Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies. ( 2009 - 2023)
  • Sociology ( 2006 - 2023)
  • Sociology ( 2000 - 2005)

Affiliations

  • Building Research Capability in the Social Sciences (BRCSS) Network (Professional Organisation): Member of the Management Committee
  • Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics (C-SAP), Higher Education Academy (Professional Organisation): Sociology Reference Group International Representative
  • Christchurch City Council (CCC) (Government): Consultant to Cemetary Project
  • Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (SAANZ) (Professional Organisation): President

Research Groups

  • Building Research Capability in the Social Sciences Network (BRCSS Network)
  • Resilience: Social Research
  • Social Science Research Centre (SSRC)

Research Projects

  • Bio-cremation: Sustainability, bodily disposition and the uptake of new technologies
  • Care in New Zealand
  • City of Flows: Household Water Practices in Christchurch, New Zealand
  • Stories of Movement: Experiences of disruption and adjustment in post quake city

Future Research

  • Bio-cremation project phase 2: the public's view of alkaline hydrolysis
  • Disaster memorialisation
  • Aotearoa New Zealand death ways

Key Methodologies

  • Discourse analysis
  • Participant observation
  • Interviews (group & individual)
  • Archival research
  • Focus group interviews
  • grounded theory
  • ATLAS.ti
  • narrative analysis
  • on-line survey
  • genealogical analysis (Foucauldian)
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