ISBN:
9780429792366
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (223 pages)
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Human Geography Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version Jedan, Christoph Consolationscapes in the Face of Loss : Grief and Consolation in Space and Time
DDC:
393.9
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: From deathscapes to consolationscapes: spaces, practices and experiences of consolation -- Bringing a spatial lens to consolation -- Interdisciplinary approaches to consolation -- The chapters -- References -- PART I: Reviving consolation -- 1. What is consolation? Towards a new conceptual framework -- Introduction -- Three notable models of consolation -- Three strands of consolation -- The Four-Axis Model of Consolation -- Application -- Conclusion -- References -- 2. Bittersweet: Mapping grief and consolation through the lens of deceased organ donation -- Introduction -- Mapping grief and consolation: a conceptual framework -- The bittersweet consolation of organ donation: #livesoninothers -- The Organ Donation Isle of Man Memorial Garden -- Conclusion: Reflections on mapping grief and consolation -- References -- PART II: European constellations -- 3. Consolation and the 'poetics' of the soil in 'natural burial' sites -- Introduction -- Environmental concerns -- A call 'back to nature' -- The biotic non-self -- Scoping, coping and consolation -- Summary and tentative conclusion -- References -- 4. The crematorium as a ritual and musical consolationscape -- Introduction -- Music and the cremation ritual -- Interference of places: Building, ritual and music -- Music and consolation -- Crematorium, music and consolation -- Consolationscape -- References -- 5. Emotional landscapes: Battlefield memorials to seventeenthcentury Civil War conflicts in England and Scotland -- Introduction -- Emotional communities -- Naseby (1645) -- Wigtown (1685) -- Emotional geographies -- The Naseby monuments -- Wigtown monuments -- Conclusion -- References
Abstract:
6. Danish churchyards as consolationscapes -- Introduction -- The seemingly secularised look of Danish churchyards -- The reformation of material culture -- The displacement of consolation -- Regulating consolation in Lutheran Denmark -- Cremation and Protestant heritage -- The new-old deathscape and the strengthened church -- Contesting Protestant norms of consolation -- Official religion versus lived religion -- Planning for future consolation -- References -- PART III: Beyond the Global North -- 7. Moving through the land: Consolation and space in Tiwi Aboriginal death rituals -- Introduction -- Connections to country -- When the turtles vanished -- Ritual cleansing of the dead's territory -- Postfuneral rites from Pirlangimpi to Karumurarimili -- Conclusion -- References -- 8. Rituals, healing and consolation in post-conflict environments: The case of the Matabeleland Massacre in Zimbabwe -- Introduction -- Death wounds -- The case of Gukurahundi -- The practice of Ndebele traditional funeral rites -- Gukurahundi and the desecration of religio-cultural values -- Conclusion -- References -- 9. Love the dead, fear the dead: Creating consolationscapes in postwar northern Uganda -- Introduction -- Acholi consolationscapes -- The LRA war and the displaced dead -- Twenty years of war -- Going home: Post-war reburials -- Reburying Opio and Ocen -- Communal consolation -- The threat of the bush -- Managing the uncanny -- Creating consolationscapes through reburial -- Creating the future -- The comfort and discomfort of continuing bonds -- The dark sides of Acholi consolationscapes? -- Conclusion -- References -- 10. 'It's God's will': Consolation and religious meaning-making after a family death in urban Senegal -- Introduction -- Conceptual framing: Consolation and religious solace -- Narratives of the death and religious meaning-making
Abstract:
Co-presence and 'getting by' -- Continuing bonds and practices of remembrance -- Conclusion -- References -- Conclusion: Analysing consolationscapes -- References -- Index
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