Iris J Gildea
Biographic Data
| ID | 6281552 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Iris J Gildea |
| GIVEN NAMES | Iris J |
| FAMILY NAME | Gildea |
| SIGNATURE | GILDEA I J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Book & Media Studies, University of St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2992-9062 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Autoethnographic Aesthetics as Feminist Arts-Based Trauma Work
The framework I invoke in this essay involves the intervention and integration of aesthetic discourses through arts-based inquiry practice and my own critical autoethnographic praxis. Through this intermodal dialogue including visual art, poetry, and poetic and theoretical prose, the essay is an inquiry into feminist arts-based trauma theory and qualitative research methods. I advocate for a need to support, cultivate, and center non-linear and n…
Grief tending through the wilderness: Toward a poetic consciousness for adult survivors of childhood trauma
In this article, my approach to grief tending for the adult survivor of childhood trauma is to integrate a practice of poetic inquiry into one’s evolving relationship with oneself. As has been well documented by trauma theory, arts-based practices, here working strictly with poetry, are capable of embracing the often non-linear and multi-layered realities of our emotional woundings that are carried with us throughout our lives. By forging pathway…
The poetry of forgiveness: Poetic inquiry, forgiveness and autoethnography in the context of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) recovery
The psychological, emotional, physical and spiritual wounding caused by childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and the ways in which one dimension of the trauma impacts another is extremely complex. Accordingly, restorative healing practices call for survivor-centered approaches to being with and healing from the embodied wounding and attachment trauma that results from sexual violence. Developing a practice of poetic inquiry, this article suggests, is one…
Speaking from the black hole: Representing the experiences of survivors of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) in cultural pedagogies of meaning-making
As with any manifestation of intersectional marginalization and oppression impacted by institutionally and culturally complicit mechanisms of silencing, there are many approaches to providing space and conscious awareness building for childhood sexual abuse (CSA) representation. In this article, my approach is to advocate for what I consider affective cultural pedagogies of aesthetic interventions that are able to establish a more effective cultu…
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Speaking from the black hole: Representing the experiences of survivors of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) in cultural pedagogies of meaning-making
As with any manifestation of intersectional marginalization and oppression impacted by institutionally and culturally complicit mechanisms of silencing, there are many approaches to providing space and conscious awareness building for childhood sexual abuse (CSA) representation. In this article, my approach is to advocate for what I consider affective cultural pedagogies of aesthetic interventions that are able to establish a more effective cultu…
Grief tending through the wilderness: Toward a poetic consciousness for adult survivors of childhood trauma
In this article, my approach to grief tending for the adult survivor of childhood trauma is to integrate a practice of poetic inquiry into one’s evolving relationship with oneself. As has been well documented by trauma theory, arts-based practices, here working strictly with poetry, are capable of embracing the often non-linear and multi-layered realities of our emotional woundings that are carried with us throughout our lives. By forging pathway…
The poetry of forgiveness: Poetic inquiry, forgiveness and autoethnography in the context of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) recovery
The psychological, emotional, physical and spiritual wounding caused by childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and the ways in which one dimension of the trauma impacts another is extremely complex. Accordingly, restorative healing practices call for survivor-centered approaches to being with and healing from the embodied wounding and attachment trauma that results from sexual violence. Developing a practice of poetic inquiry, this article suggests, is one…
Autoethnographic Aesthetics as Feminist Arts-Based Trauma Work
The framework I invoke in this essay involves the intervention and integration of aesthetic discourses through arts-based inquiry practice and my own critical autoethnographic praxis. Through this intermodal dialogue including visual art, poetry, and poetic and theoretical prose, the essay is an inquiry into feminist arts-based trauma theory and qualitative research methods. I advocate for a need to support, cultivate, and center non-linear and n…
Literature (4 works) · Poetry (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Art Therapy and Mental Health (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Psychotherapist (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)