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Remaining in Death: A Critical Ethnography of Death, Remains, and Community in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (2019)

Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is a neighbourhood well-known as a site of death and disappearance. These kinds of imaginations of the neighbourhood overwhelmingly depict the dead as simply gone—as if death is the end of the story. Focussing particularly on tenant communities in the neighbourhood’s Single Room Occupancy (SRO) hotels, this Master’s thesis rethinks such depictions, instead considering the dead of the Downtown Eastside as powerful, enduring forces who continue to shape community today.