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Consolationscapes in the Face of Loss - Grief and Consolation in Space and Time (Hardcover)
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Consolationscapes in the Face of Loss - Grief and Consolation in Space and Time (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography
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Human beings are grieving animals. 'Consolation', or an attempt to
assuage grief, is an age-old response to loss which has various
expressions in different cultural contexts. Over the past century,
consolation has dropped off the West's cultural radar. The
contributions to this volume highlight this neglect of consolation
in popular and academic discourses and explore the usefulness of
the concept of consolation for analysing spatio-temporal
constellations. Consolationscapes in the Face of Loss brings
together scholars from geography, philosophy, history, anthropology
and religious studies. The chapters use spatial and conceptual
mappings of grief and consolation to analyse a range of spaces and
phenomena around grief, bereavement and remembrance, comfort and
resilience, including battlefield memorials, crematoria, graveyards
and natural burial sites in Europe. Authors shift the discussion
beyond the Global North by including responses to traumatic grief
in post-conflict African societies, as well as Australian
Aboriginal traditions of ritual consolation. The book focuses on
the relationship between space/place and consolation. In so doing,
it offers a new lens for research on death, grief and bereavement.
It offers new insights for students and researchers interrogating
contemporary bereavement, as well as those interested in
meaning-making, emerging socio-cultural practices and their role in
personal and collective resilience.
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