Waking with Strange Encounters (in) a Pandemic Lockdown
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3667092 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sirma Bilge (0009-0002-4540-7333, Université de Montréal, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 24-32 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Intercultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-6868 • E-ISSN: 1469-9540 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07256868.2020.1859205 |
| OpenAlex | W3132487289 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
In the context of a deadly pandemic, we are scrambling to learn how to mourn mass death, how to fulfil our collective responsibility to the dead, responsibility of remembrance. A sense of urgency is demanding me to connect my grief to the grief of others (my grief over the death of people I didn’t know, people who were strangers to me), to connect my desiderium to that of others. It is within this context that I engage with Sara Ahmed’s Strange Encounters and composed this piece which is all over the place like myself. As a result, the aspects of the book that retained my attention and on which I dwell bear the imprint and bias of my on-going grieving, exhaustion, and dislocation
Disenfranchised grief · Grief · Pandemic · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Sociology · History · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · South Asian Studies and Diaspora
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |