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Miranda Tuckett is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Social and Political Science. Her research is situated at the intersection of medical anthropology and crip studies, specifically examining the relationships between imagination, affect, and aesthetics in the context of death and dying, with a focus on assisted suicide. Her ongoing work is based on fieldwork conducted in the UK and Switzerland, culminating in a book manuscript entitled 'Imagining Death: Affects Aesthetics Assisted Suicide.' This work brings anthropological methods into conversation with crip theory to rethink the ethics of accompaniment at the end of life. Rather than positioning ethics within a framework of certainty and choice, her book foregrounds themes of ambivalence, interdependence, and open-endedness in generating ethical stances. In her teaching, Tuckett emphasizes writing and inquiry in ethnography and relational practice. She incorporates ethnographic media—such as film, sound, and visual methods—into her courses, encouraging students to experiment with form and reflexivity through a collaborative, student-centered pedagogy.
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