Rest in Plastic

<p> In Peki an Ewe town in the Ghanaian Volta Region death is a matter of public concern. By means of funeral banners printed with synthetic ink on PVC public lyings in state cemented graves and wreaths made from plastic death occupies a prominent place in the world of the living. <em>Rest in Plastic</em> gives an insight into local entanglements of death synthetic materials and power in Ewe community. It shows how different materials and things that come to shape power relations exist in a delicate balance between state and local governance kin and outsiders death and life the invisible and the visible movement and containment.</p>