Making Sense of Family Deaths in Urban Senegal
Diversities, Contexts, and Comparisons
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13629048 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jane Ribbens Mccarthy (0000-0002-2827-7453, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK, corresponding author), Ruth Evans (0000-0002-4599-5270, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK), Sophie Bowlby (Open University, Milton Keynes, UK), Joséphine Wouango (0000-0003-3606-5132, University of Liège) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 230-260 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0030222818805351 |
| PMID | 30360681 |
| OpenAlex | W2898254448 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 74 |
Despite calls for cross-cultural research, Minority world perspectives still dominate death and bereavement studies, emphasizing individualized emotions and neglecting contextual diversities. In research concerned with contemporary African societies, on the other hand, death and loss are generally subsumed within concerns about AIDS or poverty, with little attention paid to the emotional and personal significance of a death. Here, we draw on interactionist sociology to present major themes from a qualitative study of family deaths in urban Senegal, theoretically framed through the duality of meanings-in-context. Such themes included family and community as support and motivation; religious beliefs and practices as frameworks for solace and (regulatory) meaning; and material circumstances as these are intrinsically bound up with emotions. Although we identify the experience of (embodied, emotional) pain as a common response across Minority and Majority worlds, we also explore significant divergencies, varying according to localized contexts and broader power dynamics
Context (archaeology · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Geography · Meaning (existential · Political science · Poverty · Power (physics · Sociology · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Homelessness and Social Issues · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Social Psychology
Diversity challenges from urban West Africa
Cultural echoes
Relational rights and interdependent wellbeing
Unpacking ‘family troubles’, care and relationality across time and space
Interpreting family struggles in West Africa across Majority-Minority world boundaries
Operationalizing intersectionality as a framework in qualitative grief research
Continuing Bonds in the Existential, Phenomenological, and Cultural Study of Grief
Resonance and alienation in dying
The Aftermath of Death in the Continuing Lives of the Living
Families making sense of death
Experience-Centred and Culturally-Oriented Approaches to Narrative
Is Grief a Disease?
Widows and their families
Meaning reconstruction & the experience of loss.
The Navigation of Feeling
Bereavement Narratives
Grief across cultures
Oppression of the Bereaved
Do religious or spiritual beliefs influence bereavement? A systematic review
Family and social networks after bereavement: experiences of support, change and isolation
The Fundamental Paradox in the Grief Literature
A culture of silent grief
Understanding family meanings
Love in Africa
Suffering and its professional transformation
Discourses of Loss and Bereavement in Tigray, Ethiopia
Academic constructions of bereavement
Interpreting ‘grief’ in Senegal
A Social Constructionist Account of Grief
What is Complicated Grief? A Social Constructionist Perspective
Developing a Cross-Cultural Model of Grief
The Grief Process as a Social Construct
Cross-world and cross-disciplinary dialogue
Producing emotionally sensed knowledge? Reflexivity and emotions in researching responses to death
Working with legal pluralism
Fundamentalisms, globalisation and women's human rights in Senegal
Religion in Contemporary Senegal
Hearing the silences
Economic Components of Grief
The case for a sociology of dying, death, and bereavement
Recovery Following Bereavement
Report on Bereavement and Grief Research
Sibling caringscapes
Relational Being
Grief is a Luxury
Grief as a Social Emotion
Emotions, affects and the production of social life
Bereavement and loss in two Muslim communities
Cultural consultation for cancer
Recognising the Time-Space Dimensions of Care
Parental death as a vital conjuncture? Intergenerational care and responsibility following bereavement in Senegal
Islam, Women and the Role of the State in Senegal
Embodied Relationality and Caring after Death
Generational Changes, Political Stagnation, and the Evolving Dynamics of Religion and Politics in Senegal
The Powerful Relational Language of 'Family
Child Fostering in Senegal
The Impact of Children's Death on Shona Mothers and Families
The Social Shaping of Emotion
On the Limits of Life Stages in Ethnography
What can be known and how? Narrated subjects and the Listening Guide
Troubling Children's Families
Sociology for the whole world
Introduction
Death
Loss and material culture in South London
Putting 'The Grave' into Social Policy
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |