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Bittersweet: mapping grief and consolation through the lens of deceased organ donation
No full textThis chapter explores the complex intertwined emotional geographies of grief and consolation experienced as a result of organ donation as a result of the death of a loved one
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Gendered spaces and practice,relationality, emotion and affect at the Marian shrine of Ta Pinu, Gozo, Malta
Full text linkIn this chapter the case study of Ta’ Pinu, Gozo, a site of pilgrimage for Marian devotion and the national shrine of Malta, is analysed as a gendered assemblage and an example of the intersection of gender and religion, with attention to the spatial and power relations associated with these flows and processes. Islands have functioned as places of spiritual retreat and subsequent pilgrimage throughout the history of the Christian faith, the liminal character of their coastal landscapes and environments creating particular intertwinings of experience and spiritual practice; yet, whilst this experiential nexus may be extraordinary for visitors, it is the everyday context of daily life for inhabitants (see Maddrell 2011, 2013,
Maddrell and della Dora 2013, Maddrell et al 2015, Maddrell and Scriven (forthcoming)). Here my attention is turned to the island of Gozo in Malta, analysing the Roman Catholic shrine of Ta’ Pinu, in order to offer a spatial perspective on gender and religion within this specific
context and arena. Whilst the journeys to this island shrine can have significance, drawing on feminist theories of embodiment, my focus here is less on the journey per se and more on the spaces and practices of religious performance and related geographies of spiritual encounter,
emotion and affect, with particular attention to the gendered dimensions of these practices at Ta’ Pinu. This will be set within the wider context of an overarching analysis of faith practices as embodied in everyday spaces and practices, reflecting a need for more scholarly
attention to examining those pilgrimages which are embedded in everyday practice rather than a stand-alone extraordinary event (Maddrell 2013). It is hoped that this meshing of perspectives and themes will yield fresh understanding of the specific place-time dynamics of
gender and religion at Ta’ Pinu, and in turn contribute to a spiritually-inflected understanding of gendered discourses and practices. Before turning to the core discussion, Marian veneration as a form of pilgrimage practice and the history of the Ta’ Pinu shrine are briefly
outlined, and fieldwork methodologies explained
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Managing migrant border deaths in Southern Italy: medico-legal, ritual and burial practices
Full text linkThis chapter addresses the pressing contemporary political and social issue of migrant death as a result of dangerous irregular migration routes across the Mediterranean, and local provision for the migrant dead in southern Italy. Drawing on the concept of bordering and (non)grievability, it details the evolving Italian governance and social responses to the border dead. It goes on to examine local mortuary and burial practices, for the border dead with particular attention to their visibility, and the roles of the state, local municipalities, clergy and local residents. Its contrasts the initial integration of the migrant dead within local cemeteries with subsequent dedicated burial sections or grounds, showing how each of these tactics can serve to make the migrant dead socially and politically invisible, through poor documentation of burials, immobilizing assimilation within local cemeteries, or through marginalization in peripheral burial grounds for the border dead
From deathscapes to consolationscapes:Spaces, practices and experiences of consolation
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Sacred mobilities: journeys of belief and belonging
No full textA collection of papers that draws upon the Mobilities Approach to look afresh at notions of sacred where they intersect with people, objects and other things on the move. Considerations of a wide range of spiritual meanings and practices also sheds light on the motivations and experiences associated with particular mobilities
From deathscapes to consolationscapes:Spaces, practices and experiences of consolation
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Dundee, migration, and the historic jute trade: interweaving Bengali-Dundee cemetery practices and spaces
Full text linkIn this chapter we draw on both postcolonial and mobilities scholarship to engage with the neglected intersections between mobilities and colonialism. Specifically, we argue this colonial legacy set the conditions for present day Bengali and other Scottish Muslims to create their understandings of home and belonging. We explore this idea through the development and negotiation of Muslim burial space in the city, and see how the claiming of rights, in this case the right to a dignified burial, is entangled with multi-generational senses of belonging, practices of faith, and experiences of bureaucracy. We first explore the legacy of colonial connections between Dundee and the Bengal Delta and outline the history of the jute trade between these regions. After a brief discussion on methodology, we secondly discuss Dundee’s Muslim communities and their histories and experiences of migration. Finally, we trace the development of Muslim burial in the city to situate ethnic difference within a wider landscape of citizenship and belonging. We argue that through situating the death practices and decision-making of ethnic minority communities within a wider understanding of how mobilities impact upon their life experiences, and within a larger postcolonial context, we understand spaces of death as part of the making of minority identities in Scotland
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