This article asks whether the recent UK-based practice of removing ashes from crematoria has led to entirely new, innovative rituals of disposal, or whether contemporary practice is an appropriation ...of late nineteenth-century Romantic values and beliefs. Drawing on findings from a major empirical study among both professionals and lay people involved in the removal of ashes, it explores the potentiality of ash remains as a mobile material residue of the corpse, and considers whether they enable disposal strategies which no longer reflect concerns with space and place--particularly those associated with traditional burial grounds.
Living with the dead Clayden, Andy; Hockey, Jenny; Green, Trish ...
Journal of landscape architecture (Wageningen, Netherlands),
20/9/1/, Letnik:
4, Številka:
2
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Living with the dead Clayden, Andy; Hockey, Jenny; Green, Trish ...
Journal of landscape architecture (Wageningen, Netherlands),
11/2009, Letnik:
2009, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Using data from an ongoing project which investigates continuities and changes in the institution of heterosexuality across the twentieth century, this article brings a spatialised perspective to ...bear on the contradictions implicit within family-based models of hegemonic heterosexuality. In this context we contribute to the growing focus by geographers on theorising the spatial and emotional aspects of heterosexuality. Via interviews with women and men from three generations in 20 families from East Yorkshire, England, we discover the difficulties experienced by individuals seeking to bring together their sexual and family lives. Focusing on two areas, the transmission of sexual knowledge between the members of different generations and between heterosexual partners and the use of space within the performance of gendered identities, the article shows how individuals both experience constraint and discover scope for agency in managing such contradictions. Via empirical data we therefore begin to identify the ways in which heterosexuality, as an institution, has provided an implicit organising principle through which materially-grounded links between self, the emotions, other, body, home and the public sphere have been produced and/or negotiated over the last 80 years. PERIODICAL ABSTRACT
The qualitative study described in this paper explores later life spousal bereavement as a spatialised experience. It draws on interviews with 20 older widowed people who were living alone, half in ...owner-occupied accommodation and half in sheltered housing. Moving beyond the older adult's ‘inner’ world of grief, it examines changes in the use and meaning of both public and domestic space in order to provide an holistic, culturally-located analysis. The following themes are identified as important: the type of housing, interviewees’ spatialised social relationships, the experience of spousal caregiving prior to bereavement and the ongoing relationship between the living and the dead partner.
La crémation et le devenir des cendres Hockey, Jenny; Kellaher, Leonie; Prendergast, David
Ethnologie française,
06/2007, Letnik:
37, Številka:
2
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Recenzirano
RésuméDans nos sociétés laïques, de plus en plus de personnes choisissent de se charger de toute une série de décisions concernant les cendres de leurs défunts. Actuellement, au Royaume-Uni où la ...législation est très permissive, près de 250 000 urnes sont retirées des crématoriums chaque année. À partir d’une enquête menée auprès de particuliers et de professionnels, les auteurs interrogent l’apparition de ces nouveaux processus rituels dans quatre villes d’Angleterre et d’Écosse. En réinventant des sites de dispersion des cendres, lors de ce qui pourrait bien être un « rite optionnel », les survivants créent des « espaces vécus » qui transcendent les conceptions officielles sur les lieux réservés aux morts. La perspective matérialiste l’emportant, le désir de ces derniers serait d’établir des liens avec les restes du défunt, afin de créer, par le biais d’une expérience vécue, des espaces de mémoire.
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