Some rhizomatic recollections of a feminist geographer: working toward an affirmative politics

Moss, Pamela

doi:10.1080/0966369x.2014.939159

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“…In doing so, I aim to enrich the growing literature surrounding autobiographical intimacy (Donovan & Moss, ; Longhurst, ) “whereby researchers and scholars can write from an embodied, embedded self through recounting their own intellectual and social practices” as part of a wider affirmative political project (Moss, , p. 803). Indeed, autobiography has been a particularly effective method in the critical health/disability literature, often used to counter biomedical detachment and uncover the complexities of researching illness and disability “from the inside” (see Bissell, ; Moss, , ; Scarry, ). In this general move towards storytelling in geography (Cameron, ; Lorimer & Parr, ; Vanolo, ), autobiography has, however, only been used sparingly in work on dying, death and living on.…”

Section: A Creative Methodology: Making Autobiographical Bricolagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In providing “an opening into learning” (Rosenberg, ), this is an approach that does not avoid mortality but rather endures, works through and lives with the pain of death, grief and living on without being destroyed by it. So in expressing vulnerability and fragility through an aesthetics of precarity, the subject can become “undone, turning into something else” to act “in ways that enhance the world around her” (Moss, , pp. 804, 806).…”

Section: Precarious Creativity: Becoming Less Uncomfortable With the mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Creative geographies and living on from breast cancer: The enlivening potential of autobiographical bricolage for an aesthetics of precarity

Madge

2017

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper is located at the intersection of scholarship on creative geographies and geographies of dying, death and “living on” (survival). It explores the intimate experience of breast cancer through the practice of creative bricolage which uses autobiographical poetry and photographs. Employing a roving writing strategy that allows for multiple entry points and connectivities surrounding the complex meshworks of precarious cancer survival, the paper traverses health, emotional, environmental and political concerns. In so doing, the paper makes three key contributions: first, in considering how a creative sensibility might bring more visceral, emotionally sensitive and politically embedded accounts of death, dying and survival into the realm of geographical visibility; second, in exploring some of the potentials and limitations of using do‐it‐yourself bricolage as a creative practice; and third, in revealing how a geographical mindset, with its attention to multiple intersecting sites and its ability to promulgate holistic relational understanding, can widen the aesthetic terrain of breast cancer beyond dominant tropes of consumerist sentimentality or heroic femininity towards an aesthetics of precarity.

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Section: A Creative Methodology: Making Autobiographical Bricolagementioning

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Section: Precarious Creativity: Becoming Less Uncomfortable With the mentioning

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Creative geographies and living on from breast cancer: The enlivening potential of autobiographical bricolage for an aesthetics of precarity

Madge

2017

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…Affirmative and reparative modes of inquiry have made important contributions to geographic scholarship across a range of subfields and disciplinary conversations, including writing on critiques of political economy (Gibson-Graham, 1996); feminist affirmative politics (Moss, 2014; Ruddick, 2008); affect, representation, and materiality (Harrison, 2015; McCormack, 2012; Tolia-Kelly, 2013); and queer geographies (Browne, 2009; Lim, 2007; Seitz, 2017a; Wilkinson, 2017). Anderson (2018) highlights how affirmative and reparative scholarship seek to multiply the modes of inquiry available to geographers beyond singular scripts of critique toward a broader range of practices including, for example, description or experimentation.…”

Section: Affects Of Critique In Geographical Thoughtmentioning

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Feeling otherwise: Ambivalent affects and the politics of critique in geography

Ruez

Cockayne

2021

Dialogues in Human Geography

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Scholars across the social sciences and humanities have increasingly questioned the meaning and purpose of critique. Contributing to those conversations, some geographers have advocated for affirmative or reparative practices such as reading for difference or experimentation that seek to provoke more joyful, hopeful, or enchanting affects, as alternatives to what they perceive as a prevailing forms of ‘negative’ critique. In response, others have re-emphasized the centrality of negativity and revalued negative affects in the context of regimes of racialization, heteronormativity, and coloniality. Rather than taking sides in a debate thus framed, this article develops an ambivalent position that foregrounds multiple senses of difference that exist within affirmative and reparative projects. Drawing on feminist and queer geographic work, the explicitly political and difference-oriented writing of Sedgwick and Deleuze, and queer and postcolonial affect scholars, we argue for critique characterized by an ambivalent and pluralistic attitude toward feeling. Joining those arguing for a pluralization of the moods and modes of critical work, our readings suggest the necessity of a pluralism that refuses any escape from the ‘negativity’ of the social field in favor of an affectively ambivalent engagement with the inherent politics of critique in a plural and uneven world.

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“…As a team of four researchers with different sets of expertise in relation to the topic of this project, we contend that these multiple sets of collaborative knowledges were a crucial part of the success of this project. With varying interests in feminist, development and social geographies alongside geographies of religion, voluntarism, citizenship and youth, we are sensitive to the significance of our multiple positionalities and how this shaped the research (Hopkins ; Moss ) and the importance of creating a safe space ‘for people of faith to speak, be heard and to do research’ (Laurie , 167).…”

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Transitions to religious adulthood: relational geographies of youth, religion and international volunteering

Hopkins

Olson

Smith

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Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper offers important insights into the contemporary nature of youth transitions and the ways in which religious affiliation and engagement with international volunteering influences and interplays with negotiations of the life course. Situated within interdisciplinary debates about youth transitions, as well as discussions about relational geographies of age, religion and voluntarism, we demonstrate the multiple relationalities that are at play as young religious international volunteers negotiate the transition to religious adulthood. We focus on religious, vocational and aged relationalities to explore how these are engaged with, and experienced by, young people 'over there' in Latin America and 'back home' in the UK. Additionally, we explore how these relationalities shape identities within and between religiosity, age (youth) and volunteering, and how these are (re)organised through networks, flows and mobilities. To do so, we draw on our analysis of the experiences of young volunteers who participated in faith-based international volunteering with an evangelical Christian organisation that sends teams of young people on short-term missions to Latin America. We draw on our analyses of two sets of interviews with 22 young volunteers, 14 of whom also completed a diary about their experiences, supplemented by four focus groups. Our analysis points to the ways in which the spatial emphasis of geographical engagements with youth transitions can be well informed through considerations of religion; a key challenge being how young volunteers renegotiate their sense of religious self on returning 'back home'. In addition, although our participants displayed some self-reflexivity about the social construction of age, they did not necessarily exhibit an understanding of the power underpinning their encounters with others. Finally, our findings open up possibilities for appreciating the diversity of volunteering experiences and the role that volunteer organisations have in shaping the expectations and aspirations of those who participate in their programmes.

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Some rhizomatic recollections of a feminist geographer: working toward an affirmative politics

Cited by 17 publications

References 10 publications

Creative geographies and living on from breast cancer: The enlivening potential of autobiographical bricolage for an aesthetics of precarity

Creative geographies and living on from breast cancer: The enlivening potential of autobiographical bricolage for an aesthetics of precarity

Feeling otherwise: Ambivalent affects and the politics of critique in geography

Transitions to religious adulthood: relational geographies of youth, religion and international volunteering

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