Digital geographies of miscarriage
A ‘sister‐ethnographic’ approach to pregnancy apps and loss
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8962275 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Caroline Bagelman (0000-0002-6164-7671, Liverpool Hope University, corresponding author), Jen Bagelman (0000-0002-9322-1835, Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne UK) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-02 |
| 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.12683 |
| OpenAlex | W4393509305 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 51 |
Pregnancy apps have become a popular healthcare tool with millions of users worldwide. While branded as inclusive, they nevertheless normalise a particular pregnancy journey: one culminating in birth. Knowing that pregnancies end for various reasons – with one in five resulting in miscarriage – we seek to challenge this narrow framing. Deviating from existing literature, our paper explores the emotional geographies of pregnancy apps when birth is not the outcome. Set through a series of ‘app annotations’ by two sisters navigating pregnancy loss, our paper explores how a leading app was intimately encountered. Drawing inspiration from graphics literature, we advance a new method and activist tool that centres the body – and particularly embodied loss – in digital debates. In so doing we hope to turn geography's ‘digital turn’ towards a more creative set of tools, heeding feminist calls to engage technological intimacies. Vitally, this work illuminates those lives (and losses) systematically excluded – often in the name of life itself
Abortion · Biology · Ethnography · Miscarriage · Obstetrics · Pregnancy · Sister · Sociology · Anthropology · Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Medicine · Sex work and related issues
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |