Sara Mackian
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 284264 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sara Mackian |
| PRENOMES | Sara |
| SOBRENOME | Mackian |
| ASSINATURA | MACKIAN S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2837-9767 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 142 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Reframing death
Death in Western modernity is predominantly experienced as challenging and destabilising, bringing uncertainty, loss, and pain. However, from some contemporary spiritual perspectives, death represents not just an ending, but also facilitates new ways of experiencing our embodied being. Based on participatory fieldwork in the UK, this paper explores constructions and encounters with death through the formal religious lens of Spiritualism and the m…
Talking with the dead
While Spiritualism has attracted much attention in other disciplines, geographers have largely ignored it. However, we agree with Holloway (2006 Enchanted spaces: the séance, affect, and geographies of religion Annals of the Association of American Geographers , 96 , pp. 182–187) that Spiritualism presents conceptual challenges that make it worthy of more attention. As Holloway suggests, the themes of affect, embodiment and materiality are partic…
Spirit knows
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
The place of spirit
In this paper, we seek to map out the specific geographies through which spatialities of religion have been imagined. These involve such spatial metaphors as islands, networks and spheres. Less attention has been given to new forms of spirituality, and to the consequences of thinking through these for our understanding of modernity itself. We argue that modernity, religion and spirituality are entangled and spread through daily life. We conclude …
Psychics, crystals, candles and cauldrons
Studies of alternative and 'New Age' spiritualities and of the paranormal in popular culture hint at the existence of underlying economic relationships that are, though small in size by some measures, both significant and influential. This paper seeks to foreground the economic relationships underpinning the beliefs, practices and activities associated with alternative spiritualities. For, as we argue, these have either been marginalised in most …
Crossing Spiritual Boundaries
There is a growing critical social science literature around contemporary expressions of alternative spirituality. However, this literature appears to have overlooked a core feature of these spiritual experiences. For many contemporary alternative spiritual practitioners, spirit plays an active and ever present role in their everyday lives and relationships. However, the critical social science discourse has failed to adequately engage with this.…
Ethnicity and mental health encounters in primary care
Popular approaches to health seeking behaviours within health promotion and practice focus on individuals as the fulcrum for change, tending to overlook their embeddedness within 'reflexive communities'. This might serve to reinforce the invisibility of Black Caribbean women both in mainstream mental health services and associated research. Alternative approaches may be required to achieve government targets to reduce inequalities in access, care…
What the papers say
Social problems, primary care and pathways to help and support
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to describe social problems presented to general practitioners (GPs) in UK inner cities and GPs' responses; describe patients' help-seeking pathways; and consider how these pathways can be improved. METHODS: The study involved a pilot survey and follow-up qualitative interviews with patients in two inner city areas in London and Salford in 2001-2. The pilot survey involved five practices in each locality. GPs complete…
Social problems, primary care and pathways to help and support
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to describe social problems presented to general practitioners (GPs) in UK inner cities and GPs' responses; describe patients help-seeking pathways; and consider how these pathways can be improved. METHODS: The study involved a pilot survey and follow-up qualitative interviews with patients in two inner city areas in London and Salford in 2001-2. The pilot survey involved five practices in each locality. GPs completed…
Developing the public health workforce
English The qualitative research described in this article aims to explore the dynamics of routine public health practice and policy within two local health systems. Using a theoretical framework drawn from social science and management literatures on ‘communities of practice’ (Wenger, 1998), we seek to illuminate the values and ideas that shape the way in which public health practice and policy making is ‘done’ on a routine basis. In particular,…
Up the garden path and over the edge
The concept of health-seeking behaviour continues to permeate the development literature, and this paper reviews the main approaches. However, it also suggests that health-seeking behaviour is a somewhat over-utilized and under-theorized tool. Although it remains a valid tool for rapid appraisal of a particular issue at a particular time, it is of little use as it stands to explore the wider relationship between populations and health systems dev…
Mapping reflexive communities
Whereas 'simple modernity' was characterized by objective space, the grid of the map, and a removal of all subjective symbols or signs, 'reflexive modernity' is characterized by a re‐subjectivization of space. Within this space 'reflexive communities' emerge to make sense of emotions and experiences, reflecting particular ways of behaving, thinking and being. As geographers one task facing us now is to visualize and map the spaces of reflexive mo…
Everywhere and nowhere’
Complex cultures
The concept of social capital has precipitated burgeoning debate and exciting opportunities for public health research. However, it would seem that as the debate has been formed it has focused almost exclusively on the way in which formal agencies can work in partnership to help 'local communities' build their social capital. There has been little exploration of how these agencies themselves may be a site for the development or erosion of social …
Contours of coping
Jump In! The Water's Warm
The citizen's new clothes
The government has launched a sustained attack upon the concept of society, championing the individual. However, in certain arenas they are now providing contradictory messages. For example, health service restructuring is calling for greater citizen involvement, appealing to a simplistic mixture of individualistic and communitarian identities. Located within that arena, this article explores the discourses of 'everyday citizens'. It is demonstra…
That great dust-heap called history
The place of spirit
In this paper, we seek to map out the specific geographies through which spatialities of religion have been imagined. These involve such spatial metaphors as islands, networks and spheres. Less attention has been given to new forms of spirituality, and to the consequences of thinking through these for our understanding of modernity itself. We argue that modernity, religion and spirituality are entangled and spread through daily life. We conclude …
Mapping reflexive communities
Whereas 'simple modernity' was characterized by objective space, the grid of the map, and a removal of all subjective symbols or signs, 'reflexive modernity' is characterized by a re‐subjectivization of space. Within this space 'reflexive communities' emerge to make sense of emotions and experiences, reflecting particular ways of behaving, thinking and being. As geographers one task facing us now is to visualize and map the spaces of reflexive mo…
Jump In! The Water's Warm
Talking with the dead
While Spiritualism has attracted much attention in other disciplines, geographers have largely ignored it. However, we agree with Holloway (2006 Enchanted spaces: the séance, affect, and geographies of religion Annals of the Association of American Geographers , 96 , pp. 182–187) that Spiritualism presents conceptual challenges that make it worthy of more attention. As Holloway suggests, the themes of affect, embodiment and materiality are partic…
Contours of coping
Psychics, crystals, candles and cauldrons
Studies of alternative and 'New Age' spiritualities and of the paranormal in popular culture hint at the existence of underlying economic relationships that are, though small in size by some measures, both significant and influential. This paper seeks to foreground the economic relationships underpinning the beliefs, practices and activities associated with alternative spiritualities. For, as we argue, these have either been marginalised in most …
Spirit knows
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
Crossing Spiritual Boundaries
There is a growing critical social science literature around contemporary expressions of alternative spirituality. However, this literature appears to have overlooked a core feature of these spiritual experiences. For many contemporary alternative spiritual practitioners, spirit plays an active and ever present role in their everyday lives and relationships. However, the critical social science discourse has failed to adequately engage with this.…
The citizen's new clothes
The government has launched a sustained attack upon the concept of society, championing the individual. However, in certain arenas they are now providing contradictory messages. For example, health service restructuring is calling for greater citizen involvement, appealing to a simplistic mixture of individualistic and communitarian identities. Located within that arena, this article explores the discourses of 'everyday citizens'. It is demonstra…
What the papers say
Developing the public health workforce
English The qualitative research described in this article aims to explore the dynamics of routine public health practice and policy within two local health systems. Using a theoretical framework drawn from social science and management literatures on ‘communities of practice’ (Wenger, 1998), we seek to illuminate the values and ideas that shape the way in which public health practice and policy making is ‘done’ on a routine basis. In particular,…
Social problems, primary care and pathways to help and support
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to describe social problems presented to general practitioners (GPs) in UK inner cities and GPs' responses; describe patients' help-seeking pathways; and consider how these pathways can be improved. METHODS: The study involved a pilot survey and follow-up qualitative interviews with patients in two inner city areas in London and Salford in 2001-2. The pilot survey involved five practices in each locality. GPs complete…
Complex cultures
The concept of social capital has precipitated burgeoning debate and exciting opportunities for public health research. However, it would seem that as the debate has been formed it has focused almost exclusively on the way in which formal agencies can work in partnership to help 'local communities' build their social capital. There has been little exploration of how these agencies themselves may be a site for the development or erosion of social …
That great dust-heap called history
Social problems, primary care and pathways to help and support
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to describe social problems presented to general practitioners (GPs) in UK inner cities and GPs' responses; describe patients help-seeking pathways; and consider how these pathways can be improved. METHODS: The study involved a pilot survey and follow-up qualitative interviews with patients in two inner city areas in London and Salford in 2001-2. The pilot survey involved five practices in each locality. GPs completed…
Ethnicity and mental health encounters in primary care
Popular approaches to health seeking behaviours within health promotion and practice focus on individuals as the fulcrum for change, tending to overlook their embeddedness within 'reflexive communities'. This might serve to reinforce the invisibility of Black Caribbean women both in mainstream mental health services and associated research. Alternative approaches may be required to achieve government targets to reduce inequalities in access, care…
That great dust-heap called history
The citizen's new clothes
The government has launched a sustained attack upon the concept of society, championing the individual. However, in certain arenas they are now providing contradictory messages. For example, health service restructuring is calling for greater citizen involvement, appealing to a simplistic mixture of individualistic and communitarian identities. Located within that arena, this article explores the discourses of 'everyday citizens'. It is demonstra…
Contours of coping
Jump In! The Water's Warm
Complex cultures
The concept of social capital has precipitated burgeoning debate and exciting opportunities for public health research. However, it would seem that as the debate has been formed it has focused almost exclusively on the way in which formal agencies can work in partnership to help 'local communities' build their social capital. There has been little exploration of how these agencies themselves may be a site for the development or erosion of social …
Everywhere and nowhere’
Up the garden path and over the edge
The concept of health-seeking behaviour continues to permeate the development literature, and this paper reviews the main approaches. However, it also suggests that health-seeking behaviour is a somewhat over-utilized and under-theorized tool. Although it remains a valid tool for rapid appraisal of a particular issue at a particular time, it is of little use as it stands to explore the wider relationship between populations and health systems dev…
Mapping reflexive communities
Whereas 'simple modernity' was characterized by objective space, the grid of the map, and a removal of all subjective symbols or signs, 'reflexive modernity' is characterized by a re‐subjectivization of space. Within this space 'reflexive communities' emerge to make sense of emotions and experiences, reflecting particular ways of behaving, thinking and being. As geographers one task facing us now is to visualize and map the spaces of reflexive mo…
Developing the public health workforce
English The qualitative research described in this article aims to explore the dynamics of routine public health practice and policy within two local health systems. Using a theoretical framework drawn from social science and management literatures on ‘communities of practice’ (Wenger, 1998), we seek to illuminate the values and ideas that shape the way in which public health practice and policy making is ‘done’ on a routine basis. In particular,…
What the papers say
Social problems, primary care and pathways to help and support
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to describe social problems presented to general practitioners (GPs) in UK inner cities and GPs' responses; describe patients' help-seeking pathways; and consider how these pathways can be improved. METHODS: The study involved a pilot survey and follow-up qualitative interviews with patients in two inner city areas in London and Salford in 2001-2. The pilot survey involved five practices in each locality. GPs complete…
Social problems, primary care and pathways to help and support
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to describe social problems presented to general practitioners (GPs) in UK inner cities and GPs' responses; describe patients help-seeking pathways; and consider how these pathways can be improved. METHODS: The study involved a pilot survey and follow-up qualitative interviews with patients in two inner city areas in London and Salford in 2001-2. The pilot survey involved five practices in each locality. GPs completed…
Ethnicity and mental health encounters in primary care
Popular approaches to health seeking behaviours within health promotion and practice focus on individuals as the fulcrum for change, tending to overlook their embeddedness within 'reflexive communities'. This might serve to reinforce the invisibility of Black Caribbean women both in mainstream mental health services and associated research. Alternative approaches may be required to achieve government targets to reduce inequalities in access, care…
Crossing Spiritual Boundaries
There is a growing critical social science literature around contemporary expressions of alternative spirituality. However, this literature appears to have overlooked a core feature of these spiritual experiences. For many contemporary alternative spiritual practitioners, spirit plays an active and ever present role in their everyday lives and relationships. However, the critical social science discourse has failed to adequately engage with this.…
Psychics, crystals, candles and cauldrons
Studies of alternative and 'New Age' spiritualities and of the paranormal in popular culture hint at the existence of underlying economic relationships that are, though small in size by some measures, both significant and influential. This paper seeks to foreground the economic relationships underpinning the beliefs, practices and activities associated with alternative spiritualities. For, as we argue, these have either been marginalised in most …
The place of spirit
In this paper, we seek to map out the specific geographies through which spatialities of religion have been imagined. These involve such spatial metaphors as islands, networks and spheres. Less attention has been given to new forms of spirituality, and to the consequences of thinking through these for our understanding of modernity itself. We argue that modernity, religion and spirituality are entangled and spread through daily life. We conclude …
Talking with the dead
While Spiritualism has attracted much attention in other disciplines, geographers have largely ignored it. However, we agree with Holloway (2006 Enchanted spaces: the séance, affect, and geographies of religion Annals of the Association of American Geographers , 96 , pp. 182–187) that Spiritualism presents conceptual challenges that make it worthy of more attention. As Holloway suggests, the themes of affect, embodiment and materiality are partic…
Spirit knows
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
Reframing death
Death in Western modernity is predominantly experienced as challenging and destabilising, bringing uncertainty, loss, and pain. However, from some contemporary spiritual perspectives, death represents not just an ending, but also facilitates new ways of experiencing our embodied being. Based on participatory fieldwork in the UK, this paper explores constructions and encounters with death through the formal religious lens of Spiritualism and the m…
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