Continuing and Emerging Bonds: Working Through Grief as a Daughter and an Academic

Almack, Kathryn

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-70894-8_4

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“…In her autobiographical work, Almack (2021) discusses the ‘doing’ of ‘family’ and its potentially meaningful re-construction after parental death. She identifies shifting family relationships and roles, including gendered dynamics at play, but over time she recounts the cementing of ‘family’ sibling relationships through a new shared online communication channel.…”

Section: The Potential Disruptions Of a ‘Family Death’mentioning

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The Aftermath of Death in the Continuing Lives of the Living: Extending ‘Bereavement’ Paradigms through Family and Relational Perspectives

2023

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While there is a significant interdisciplinary and international literature available on death, dying and bereavement, literature addressing responses to death is dominated by assumptions about individuality, framing ‘bereavement’ and ‘grief’ in terms of the inner psychic life of the individual. Scholarly literature tells us little about how the continuing aftermath of death is experienced in the everyday, relational lives of the living. Inspired by research from Majority Worlds, we consider literature that might enable a more ‘relational’ sociological approach, and explore what that might involve. We set out the potential for family sociology to provide an intrinsically (if variable) relational lens on the aftermath of death, along with examples of radical relational theorising more generally. We argue for a reframing and broadening of the dominant ‘bereavement studies’ of Minority Worlds towards a much-needed paradigm shift in understanding the continuing aftermath of death in the lives of the living.

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Section: The Potential Disruptions Of a ‘Family Death’mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Aftermath of Death in the Continuing Lives of the Living: Extending ‘Bereavement’ Paradigms through Family and Relational Perspectives

2023

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A death in the family: experiences of dying and death in which everyday family practices are embedded and enacted

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2022

Families, Relationships and Societies

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‘Family’ is an important concept in end-of-life care policy and practice but familial relationships are rarely considered, beyond a bio-medical framework and/or as a resource for informal care. Furthermore, bereavement and grief have largely come to be seen as the domain for psychiatry and psychology. I argue for an exploration of death, dying and bereavement as experiences within which everyday family practices are embedded and enacted. In doing so, I draw on experiences, in an English setting, relating to my parents’ coming to the end of their lives. Morgan’s work is central to this endeavour and I apply aspects of his work to this important but understudied area of family sociology. Building on insights from this important body of work, I argue this can help to develop richer, more nuanced understandings of the everyday familial experiences of dying and death bound up in social, material and cultural contexts.

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Continuing and Emerging Bonds: Working Through Grief as a Daughter and an Academic

Cited by 2 publications

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The Aftermath of Death in the Continuing Lives of the Living: Extending ‘Bereavement’ Paradigms through Family and Relational Perspectives

The Aftermath of Death in the Continuing Lives of the Living: Extending ‘Bereavement’ Paradigms through Family and Relational Perspectives

A death in the family: experiences of dying and death in which everyday family practices are embedded and enacted

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