Abstract:In geography, a conversation around suicide survivors and their suicidal journeys has yet to happen. The current prioritisation of suicide as end points marked on maps and patterns of death in space and regions has obscured the lived experience of adults who attempt suicide and do not die. In an effort to reduce this invisibility, evidence derived from in-depth interviews with adults (18 years and over reported as missing) who freely delivered narratives of their attempts is employed to understand the complex … Show more
“…Creative geographies and geographies of dying and death are currently two key foci in geography (Hawkins & Straughan, ; Hawkins et al., ; Romanillos, ; Shaw et al, ; Stevenson et al, ; Tyner, , ). These issues of creativity and mortality are being drawn into conversation in sub‐disciplines as varied as geopolitics, emotional, cultural and post‐human geographies (Ingram, ; Jones & Fairclough, ; Tyner et al, ).…”
Section: Introduction: Creativity and Dying Death And “Surviving” Inmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although geographies of dying and death is a growing field, less has been written about “living on” (surviving) (Harrison, and Stevenson, are exceptions). According to Stevenson et al.,alongside end of life experiences, there is considerable scope to incorporate the voices of those who have survived a close‐to‐death experience and explore the specific circumstances and the post‐living/s on, with and through.…”
Section: Introduction: Creativity and Dying Death And “Surviving” Inmentioning
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.
“…Creative geographies and geographies of dying and death are currently two key foci in geography (Hawkins & Straughan, ; Hawkins et al., ; Romanillos, ; Shaw et al, ; Stevenson et al, ; Tyner, , ). These issues of creativity and mortality are being drawn into conversation in sub‐disciplines as varied as geopolitics, emotional, cultural and post‐human geographies (Ingram, ; Jones & Fairclough, ; Tyner et al, ).…”
Section: Introduction: Creativity and Dying Death And “Surviving” Inmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although geographies of dying and death is a growing field, less has been written about “living on” (surviving) (Harrison, and Stevenson, are exceptions). According to Stevenson et al.,alongside end of life experiences, there is considerable scope to incorporate the voices of those who have survived a close‐to‐death experience and explore the specific circumstances and the post‐living/s on, with and through.…”
Section: Introduction: Creativity and Dying Death And “Surviving” Inmentioning
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.
“…95% are located within 8 and 4.10 kilometres respectively). This difference, according to Gibb and Woolnough (), is related to means and method, with women more likely to take an overdose or drown themselves, which can require further travel to locate a body of water, whereas men may choose ‘more’ violent methods such as hanging or shooting, which may allow greater spatial choice and shorter travel distances (and see Stevenson for more on ‘geographies of intended suicide’). Such assumptions, evidence and suggested patterns are the only gender‐relevant spatial guidance for tracking missing people's mobility.…”
Section: Policing Missing Women In the Ukmentioning
This paper considers the neglected mobilities associated with a sample of UK women reported as missing. Refracted through literatures on gendered mobility and abandonment, the paper argues that the journeys of these women in crisis are not well understood by police services, and that normative gender relations may infuse their management. By selectively exploring one illustrative police case file on Kim, we highlight how reported and observed socio-spatial relationships within private and public spaces relate to search actions. We argue that Kim's mobility and spatial experiences are barely understood, except for when they appear to symbolise disorder and danger. We address the silences in this singular case by using the voices of other women reported as missing, as collected in a research project to explore the agency, experience and meaning of female mobility during absence. We argue that women reported as missing are not abandoned by UK policing services, but that a policy of continued search for them may be at risk if they repeatedly contravene normative socio-spatial relationships through regular absence mobilities. By way of conclusion, we address recent calls for research that explores the relationships between gender and mobility.
“…One question is to ask, why has so much research occurred without reference to these multiple intersections, whilst so little has taken place on the basis of research that calls for their inclusion? Alongside end of life experiences, there is considerable scope to incorporate the voices of those who have survived a close-to-death experience and explore the specific circumstances and the post-living/s on, with and through (see Madge, 2016;Stevenson, 2016). The ways through which living has been naturalized needs to be problematized, whilst thinking about how 'taking life' 'rights to die' and 'planning for death' has been 'othered'.…”
Section: Situating Dying/s Death/s and Survival/s Within Geographymentioning
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