Reparation for a violent boyhood: pedagogies of mourning in Shane Meadow’sThis is England

Education beyond reason and redemption: a detour through the death drive

“…Yet the essential incompletion and fragmentation of the symbolic that make it so inimical -so murderous -to the holistic and harmonious tendencies of the fantasmatic imaginary are, at the same time, key to its essential creativity and thus to renewal. In similar fashion, like the symbolic realm of language, and like the power of the negative in relation to the positive (Clarke & Phelan 2015, 2017, the death drive is at once mortifying and revitalizing. This (re)generative aspect of the death drive warrants further exploration.…”

heART space: Curating community grief from overdose

“…Our reflections here about this exhibit explore how acts of care were produced by youth through the process of curating this exhibit of their own and other’s artwork. In the context of the setting of a gallery, the opportunity for youth or their families and friends to share stories about the artist adds agency to the experiences that these young people have lived (Clacherty, 2006; Dyer, 2017; Marshall et al, 2020). That heART space specifically addressed the experiences of youth is significant, since many had not found solace through mainstream mental health and bereavement services.…”