Christine Milligan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 132843 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Christine Milligan |
| NOMBRES | Christine |
| APELLIDO | Milligan |
| FIRMA | MILLIGAN C |
| AFILIACIONES | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8675-7244 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1598 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 17 |
Vignette Research
Vignette research is an innovative qualitative, narrative and phenomenological research methodology that has gained international recognition, sparking interest from a wide range of individuals and institutions in global contexts. Vignettes are concise narratives, which capture human experiences in real life settings. They reveal surprising or intriguing facets and intangible moments. The experiential narratives resonate with readers and reduce t…
Being’ and ‘doing’ well in the moment
Over the past two decades, advancements have been made towards de‐medicalising the term ‘dementia’, attending to in‐the‐moment lived experiences of people with the condition, and exploring the connections between dementia and place, relations, activities, and well‐being. In the same timeframe, a range of prominent researchers within health geography have proposed new renegotiations of well‐being that consider it as something relational, process‐o…
In the moment with music
The term ‘in the moment’ has received growing interest in the context of music programmes for people living with dementia, with music therapists, family carers, health-care professionals and people living with dementia themselves reporting the value of framing musical experiences in the ‘here and now’. Although this term is being used more frequently within the literature, there has yet to be a formal examination of such ‘in the moment’ musical e…
Therapeutic landscape experiences of everyday geographies within the wider community
The role of combinatorial health technologies in supporting older people with long-term conditions
Wilderness as therapeutic landscape in later life
The benefits of community-based participatory arts activities for people living with dementia
There is strong evidence in support of using participatory arts for dementia, regardless of art form. In-the-moment and person-centred approaches were deemed impactful. Further research is needed to explore the importance of setting, material culture and the methodological or theoretical perspectives in participatory arts and dementia research
Placing therapeutic landscape as theoretical development in Health & Place
Health geography and the 'performative' turn
More Than Words
There is a tendency to exclude people with intellectual disabilities from participating in research about their own lives. While the use of participatory research approaches is increasing, the methods used for engaging people with intellectual disabilities in research are generally limited to interviews and focus groups. Yet a focus on the spoken or written word can present a challenge for those who may prefer to use alternative forms of communic…
Therapeutic spaces of care farming
Contemporary landscapes of welfare
Aging
Arguably the major demographic challenge of the twenty‐first century, population aging will have profound consequences and implications for all places and all aspects of human life. Within human geography this challenge has been addressed at a population level, with its links to spatial demography and epidemiology. Second, there has been a concern with the relationship between older people and their environments, incorporating the meaning of plac…
Dementia, disability rights and disablism
This article considers the recent history and consequences of positioning people living with dementia in the realms of disability, disablism and disability rights. The geo-political focus is the United Kingdom and neighbouring resource-rich nations in the Global North. The first section examines the growing trend of identifying ‘dementia’ with ‘disability’, a trend fuelled by the expansion of dementia-related activism and research. The second sec…
Older men and social activity
Finding ways of improving the health and wellbeing of older men is an important challenge for public health. This review aimed to assess evidence for the effects of Men's Sheds and other gendered social activities on the health and wellbeing of older men, and to consider their effective components and theoretical frameworks. A scoping review using standardised search criteria and terms identified 31 relevant papers of sufficient quality for inclu…
Unpacking the impact of older adults' home death on family care-givers' experiences of home
Care, coping and identity
Interpreting therapeutic landscape experiences through rural stroke survivors’ biographies of disruption and flow
Place and wellbeing
In the United Kingdom, one in five of the population is an older man, many of whom live alone. Loneliness and social isolation is a growing issue for many of these older men, one that has been associated with elevated blood pressure, poor physical health, increased mortality and mental ill-health, including depression, suicide and dementia. Lone dwelling and social isolation have tended to be viewed largely as issues affecting older women due to …
Beyond 'the paradox of our own complicity
This paper problematises ‘sectors’ as the core organising concept for spaces within social policy and ‘third sector’ theory and practice. It does so by drawing on (auto) biographical narratives from a cross-national study of activism in the UK and New Zealand that explored activists’ experiences of, and motivations for, movement between the statutory and voluntary sectors. We argue that the perpetuation of sectoral thinking represents a paradox w…
A Grounded Theory Approach to Physical Activity and Advanced Cancer
Background: Physical activity has demonstrated benefits in cancer-related fatigue and physical functioning in early-stage cancer patients, however the role of physical activity at the end stage of cancer has not been established. To challenge positivist-empiricist assumptions, I am seeking to develop a new theoretical framework that is grounded in the advanced cancer patient's experience of activity. Aim: To gain an in-depth understanding of the …
Calling for Care
The provision of 'distant' care to older people living at home through telecare technologies is often contrasted negatively to hands-on, face-to-face care: telecare is seen as a loss of care, a dehumanization. Here we challenge this view, arguing that teleoperators in telecare services do provide care to older people, often at significant emotional cost to themselves. Based on a European Commission-funded ethnographic study of two English telecar…
The Tertiary Turn
Activists often strategically negotiate sectoral boundaries by switching between public, private and voluntary sectors over the life course in order to pursue their aims. This paper draws on a cross-national study that explored the extent of this inter-sectoral movement and the specific “career pathways” activists developed in relation to governmental, private and voluntary/community sector organisations. Using an analysis of 46 biographical narr…
Telecare and older people
Unpacking stored and storied knowledge
Embodying emotion sensing space
Landscapes of care
The term 'landscapes of care' has increasingly taken hold in the lexicon of health geography. As the complex social, embodied and organizational spatialities that emerge from and through relationships of care, landscapes of care open up spaces that enable us to unpack how differing bodies of geographical work might be thought of in relationship to each other. Specifically, we explore the relation between 'proximity' and 'distance' and caring for …
Cultivating health
Location or dis-location? Towards a conceptualization of people and place in the care-giving experience
Over the last two decades we have seen an increased interest in informal care within both political and academic communities in the UK. This has stemmed in large part from an increased emphasis on the home-space as the preferred site of care provision and a resultant increase in the complexity of the care-giving relationship. The explicitly spatial dimensions of this caring relationship, however, are vastly under-researched. This paper represents…
Out of the shadows
Against a background of concerns about the ability of advanced capitalist states to meet the welfare needs of their populations, the erosion of citizenship and declining social capital, voluntarism is increasingly presented in political and academic discourses as a ‘panacea’ to social and political problems facing liberal democracies. Building on human geographers' established interests in this field, this paper focuses on contemporary developmen…
Restorative places or scary spaces? The impact of woodland on the mental well-being of young adults
From Home to 'Home
Emotions are an integral part of our daily lives, affecting who we are and how we react to the people and places around us. This emotiospatial hermeneutic has particular resonance for understanding informal carers' experiences of transitions in the place of care. Yet little work has explicitly addressed the link between emotions, care, and place. That which has focuses largely on community and the home, and largely ignores the transition of care …
Digging deep
Bearing the burden’
This paper focuses on the ways in which demographic, social and environmental factors, combined with differential emphases on priorities and patterns of spending between local authority jurisdictions, are contributing to a changing spatial geography of caring. This is examined firstly by highlighting how macro factors contribute to a restructured landscape of care, and secondly by examining the personal geographies of carers located within the Sc…
Telecare and older people
Preserving Space for Volunteers
While contemporary social and political theory views voluntary activity as key to the promotion of active citizenship, this paper argues that the connections between voluntary welfare associations and citizenship are more complex than these discourses allow. Drawing on research undertaken in the Scottish city of Glasgow and debates about an increased bifurcation of the voluntary sector, it considers how the different settings within which volunta…
Care, coping and identity
Space, Citizenship, and Voluntarism
Faced with anxieties about meeting welfare needs, and worries about the nature and meaning of citizenship, there is evidence of increasing state-initiated moves to develop the role and responsibilities of voluntary associations. Existing research suggests, however, that there are tensions between the spatial distribution of voluntary resources and welfare needs, and that the relationship between voluntary activity and active citizenship is more c…
Geographical Gerontology
The intersection between geography and gerontology arises structurally in institutions and intellectually both in academic debates surrounding disciplinary territoriality and substantive fields of empirical inquiry (population ageing and movement; services and policy; living environments; emplacement; emotions, images and the body). Although recent years have witnessed an increasing theoretical convergence between geography and gerontology - resu…
Geographies of Voluntarism
In the last decade or so a body of geographical work has begun to emerge that examines, in various ways, the interrelationship between people, place, volunteering and the voluntary sector. Work in this field is spread across a number of geographical subdisciplines, from social, health and development to political geography. As a body of work it is increasingly being referred to as 'geographies of voluntarism'. Focusing specifically on voluntary a…
Pathways of dependence
Unpacking stored and storied knowledge
Calling for Care
The provision of 'distant' care to older people living at home through telecare technologies is often contrasted negatively to hands-on, face-to-face care: telecare is seen as a loss of care, a dehumanization. Here we challenge this view, arguing that teleoperators in telecare services do provide care to older people, often at significant emotional cost to themselves. Based on a European Commission-funded ethnographic study of two English telecar…
Placing therapeutic landscape as theoretical development in Health & Place
Place and wellbeing
In the United Kingdom, one in five of the population is an older man, many of whom live alone. Loneliness and social isolation is a growing issue for many of these older men, one that has been associated with elevated blood pressure, poor physical health, increased mortality and mental ill-health, including depression, suicide and dementia. Lone dwelling and social isolation have tended to be viewed largely as issues affecting older women due to …
Therapeutic spaces of care farming
Dementia, disability rights and disablism
This article considers the recent history and consequences of positioning people living with dementia in the realms of disability, disablism and disability rights. The geo-political focus is the United Kingdom and neighbouring resource-rich nations in the Global North. The first section examines the growing trend of identifying ‘dementia’ with ‘disability’, a trend fuelled by the expansion of dementia-related activism and research. The second sec…
Breaking out of the asylum’
Sandplay, Clay and Sticks’
In this contribution we discuss the advantages of using multi-sensory methodologies in our study into the long-term mental health effects of different kinds of childhood play space. Working with a small group of young people aged 16–21 years old; we used a multi-method approach including practical workshops where the young people took part in a day of woodland activities and artwork sessions. We argue that use of such practical methodologies is p…
Putting the Voluntary Sector in its Place
The growing political and social significance of the voluntary sector in contemporary welfare reform is reflected in a wide body of research that has emerged in the political and social policy literature since the mid-1980s. While this work adds considerably to our understanding of the changing role of the voluntary welfare sector, these accounts are largely aspatial. Yet, geographical perspectives offer important insights into the development of…
Service Dependent Ghetto formation—a transferable concept
Pathways of dependence
Breaking out of the asylum’
Bearing the burden’
This paper focuses on the ways in which demographic, social and environmental factors, combined with differential emphases on priorities and patterns of spending between local authority jurisdictions, are contributing to a changing spatial geography of caring. This is examined firstly by highlighting how macro factors contribute to a restructured landscape of care, and secondly by examining the personal geographies of carers located within the Sc…
Taking up the challenge
Celtic Geographies
1. David Harvey, Rhys Jones, Neil McInroy and Christine Milligan Timing and Spacing Celtic Geographies Part I - Othering and identity politics 2. Keith D. Lilley Imagined Geographies of the 'Celtic Fringe' and the cultural construction of the 'other' in medieval Wales and Ireland 3. Iain Robertson Their families had gone back in time hundreds of years at the same place: attitudes to land and landscape in the Scottish Highlands after 1914 4. Gordo…
Out of the shadows
Against a background of concerns about the ability of advanced capitalist states to meet the welfare needs of their populations, the erosion of citizenship and declining social capital, voluntarism is increasingly presented in political and academic discourses as a ‘panacea’ to social and political problems facing liberal democracies. Building on human geographers' established interests in this field, this paper focuses on contemporary developmen…
Space, Citizenship, and Voluntarism
Faced with anxieties about meeting welfare needs, and worries about the nature and meaning of citizenship, there is evidence of increasing state-initiated moves to develop the role and responsibilities of voluntary associations. Existing research suggests, however, that there are tensions between the spatial distribution of voluntary resources and welfare needs, and that the relationship between voluntary activity and active citizenship is more c…
Location or dis-location? Towards a conceptualization of people and place in the care-giving experience
Over the last two decades we have seen an increased interest in informal care within both political and academic communities in the UK. This has stemmed in large part from an increased emphasis on the home-space as the preferred site of care provision and a resultant increase in the complexity of the care-giving relationship. The explicitly spatial dimensions of this caring relationship, however, are vastly under-researched. This paper represents…
Cultivating health
Embodying emotion sensing space
Putting the Voluntary Sector in its Place
The growing political and social significance of the voluntary sector in contemporary welfare reform is reflected in a wide body of research that has emerged in the political and social policy literature since the mid-1980s. While this work adds considerably to our understanding of the changing role of the voluntary welfare sector, these accounts are largely aspatial. Yet, geographical perspectives offer important insights into the development of…
Caring for older people in the 21st century
Preserving Space for Volunteers
While contemporary social and political theory views voluntary activity as key to the promotion of active citizenship, this paper argues that the connections between voluntary welfare associations and citizenship are more complex than these discourses allow. Drawing on research undertaken in the Scottish city of Glasgow and debates about an increased bifurcation of the voluntary sector, it considers how the different settings within which volunta…
Digging deep
From Home to 'Home
Emotions are an integral part of our daily lives, affecting who we are and how we react to the people and places around us. This emotiospatial hermeneutic has particular resonance for understanding informal carers' experiences of transitions in the place of care. Yet little work has explicitly addressed the link between emotions, care, and place. That which has focuses largely on community and the home, and largely ignores the transition of care …
Landscapes of Voluntarism
Sandplay, Clay and Sticks’
In this contribution we discuss the advantages of using multi-sensory methodologies in our study into the long-term mental health effects of different kinds of childhood play space. Working with a small group of young people aged 16–21 years old; we used a multi-method approach including practical workshops where the young people took part in a day of woodland activities and artwork sessions. We argue that use of such practical methodologies is p…
Restorative places or scary spaces? The impact of woodland on the mental well-being of young adults
Geographies of Voluntarism
In the last decade or so a body of geographical work has begun to emerge that examines, in various ways, the interrelationship between people, place, volunteering and the voluntary sector. Work in this field is spread across a number of geographical subdisciplines, from social, health and development to political geography. As a body of work it is increasingly being referred to as 'geographies of voluntarism'. Focusing specifically on voluntary a…
Geographical Gerontology
The intersection between geography and gerontology arises structurally in institutions and intellectually both in academic debates surrounding disciplinary territoriality and substantive fields of empirical inquiry (population ageing and movement; services and policy; living environments; emplacement; emotions, images and the body). Although recent years have witnessed an increasing theoretical convergence between geography and gerontology - resu…
Unpacking stored and storied knowledge
Landscapes of care
The term 'landscapes of care' has increasingly taken hold in the lexicon of health geography. As the complex social, embodied and organizational spatialities that emerge from and through relationships of care, landscapes of care open up spaces that enable us to unpack how differing bodies of geographical work might be thought of in relationship to each other. Specifically, we explore the relation between 'proximity' and 'distance' and caring for …
The Tertiary Turn
Activists often strategically negotiate sectoral boundaries by switching between public, private and voluntary sectors over the life course in order to pursue their aims. This paper draws on a cross-national study that explored the extent of this inter-sectoral movement and the specific “career pathways” activists developed in relation to governmental, private and voluntary/community sector organisations. Using an analysis of 46 biographical narr…
Telecare and older people
Sociology (34 obras) · Psychology (26 obras) · Political science (23 obras) · Medicine (20 obras) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (14 obras) · Geography (13 obras) · Public relations (12 obras) · Epistemology (11 obras) · Gerontology (11 obras) · Social science (10 obras)