A5064253390- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Religious Tourism and Spaces
- Urbanism, Landscape, and Tourism Studies
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Public Spaces through Art
- Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Architecture and Computational Design
- Architectural and Urban Studies
- Migration, Identity, and Health
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
- Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Issues
- Architecture, Design, and Social History
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Social Science and Policy Research
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Online and Blended Learning
- Art, Politics, and Modernism
Teesside University
2021-2024
University of Reading
2017-2018
Building on embodied and de‐colonial approaches to geopolitics, this paper examines the relationship between forms of governance in municipal cemetery crematorium provision needs established minorities, arguing that inadequate infrastructure services can constitute harm. Crucially, it is contended impact not only living, but also perceptions wellbeing dead. Grounded a study four towns England Wales, identifies firstly how intersectional identity fundamentally shapes people’s experiences...
“Deathscapes” constitute a growing field of research, yet the topic remains widely neglected within urban planning. In this paper, we examine adequacy existing provision for death, remembrance, and disposal body ethnic minority groups living in four British towns: Huddersfield, Newport, Northampton, Swindon. We show how needs are routinely peripheralized through lack acknowledgment diverse cultural religious needs. The paper argues that failure contemporary planning policy practice to...
Fieldwork encounters are not only contingent to biographical subjectivities, but mediated by a confluence of identity, place and embodiment. This paper offers reflexive accounts researchers with various socio-cultural disciplinary backgrounds, who collaborated as team examine the varied funerary experiences needs established minorities recent migrants in England Wales. Focusing on researchers’ personal death bereavement their performances minority majority ethnic migrant identities,...
In this paper we explore migrants' and minorities' memories memory-making associated with death, funerary remembrance practices, particular attention to how intersects experiences of migration and/or being part a cultural or religious minority. The examines different spaces including bodies, homes, translocal networks, cemeteries crematoria, centred on insights from focus groups, biographical key participant interviews in four medium sized multicultural towns England Wales. These case...
This paper posits participatory art as a distinct but underexplored practice of interest for human geography’s contemporary work on and aesthetics. It suggests that needs conceptual, critical, interdisciplinary grounding in geography to advance the expanding relationship between theory, aesthetics, geography. Through three analytical themes – politics, publics, space argues an approach draws across praxis, The concludes around suitability critically explore ethical aesthetic relations created by art.
'I am Tower of Hamlets, as I in just like a lot other people are' (2011–2012) was an artwork by Argentinian artist Amalia Pica, and involved pink-granite sculpture touring around different homes the London Borough Hamlets for one year. This paper offers geographical investigation into type encounters relations created this artwork. Rather than assume progressive role such art encounters, casts critical eye on to actual forms association that they foster normative social logics may...