Consolationscapes in the Face of Loss - Grief and Consolation in Space and Time

This book explores the spatial manifestations of dealing with bereavement and grief. It resituate and revisits "consolation" as an analytical concept that manifests in various locations. This book offers a spectrum in which the meaning consolation fluctuates in accordance with the spatial practice that seeks to employ modes of coping with grief and bereavement. It provides both theoretical and empirical chapters, and is also structured by a division that separates European-placed chapters from chapters focused outside the 'Global North'.

List of contents

Introduction: From Deathscapes to Consolationscapes: Spaces, Practices and Experiences of Consolation Part I: Reviving Consolation 1 What Is Consolation? Towards a New Conceptual Framework 2 Bittersweet: Mapping Grief and Consolation through the Lens of Deceased Organ Donation Part II: European Constellations 3 Consolation and the ‘Poetics’ of the Soil in ‘Natural Burial’ Sites 4 The Crematorium as a Ritual and Musical Consolationscape 5 Emotional Landscapes: Battlefield Memorials to Seventeenth-Century Civil war Conflicts in England and Scotland 6 Danish Churchyards as Consolationscapes Part III: Beyond the Global North 7 Moving through the Land: Consolation and Space in Tiwi Aboriginal Death Rituals 8 Rituals, Healing and Consolation in Post-Conflict Environments: The Case of the Matabeleland Massacre in Zimbabwe 9 Love the Dead, Fear the Dead: Creating Consolationsapes in Post-War Northern Uganda 10 It’s God’s Will: Consolation and Religious Meaning-Making after a Family Death in Urban Senegal, Epilogue

About the author

Christoph Jedan is Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
Avril Maddrell is Professor of Social and Cultural Geography at the University of Reading, UK.
Eric Venbrux is Professor of Comparative Religion and Director of the Centre for Thanatology at Radboud University, the Netherlands.

Product details

• Authors: Christoph (University of Groningen. Netherl Jedan, Christoph Maddrell Jedan
• Assisted by: Christoph Jedan (Editor), Jedan Christoph (Editor), Avril Maddrell (Editor), Maddrell Avril (Editor), Eric Venbrux (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.11.2018
• EAN: 9780815358794
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-5879-4
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, Human Geography, Sociology: death and dying, Sociology: Death & Dying