Creative geographies and living on from breast cancer
The enlivening potential of autobiographical bricolage for an aesthetics of precarity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8126166 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clare Madge (0000-0002-9365-3208, Department of Geography University of Leicester Leicester UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 245-261 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/tran.12215 |
| OpenAlex | W2766604657 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 69 |
This paper is located at the intersection of scholarship on creative geographies and geographies of dying, death and “living on” (survival). It explores the intimate experience of breast cancer through the practice of creative bricolage which uses autobiographical poetry and photographs. Employing a roving writing strategy that allows for multiple entry points and connectivities surrounding the complex meshworks of precarious cancer survival, the paper traverses health, emotional, environmental and political concerns. In so doing, the paper makes three key contributions: first, in considering how a creative sensibility might bring more visceral, emotionally sensitive and politically embedded accounts of death, dying and survival into the realm of geographical visibility; second, in exploring some of the potentials and limitations of using do‐it‐yourself bricolage as a creative practice; and third, in revealing how a geographical mindset, with its attention to multiple intersecting sites and its ability to promulgate holistic relational understanding, can widen the aesthetic terrain of breast cancer beyond dominant tropes of consumerist sentimentality or heroic femininity towards an aesthetics of precarity
Aesthetics · Art · Bricolage · Life writing · Literature · Materiality (auditing · Objectivism · Political science · Precarity · Realm · Scholarship · Sensibility · Sentimentality · Sociology · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
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| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |