Spatialising skin: Pushing the boundaries of trauma geographies

Adams-Hutcheson, Gail

doi:10.1016/j.emospa.2016.03.002

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“…If employed methodologically, mindfulness needs to be trauma‐sensitive to maintain ethical robustness and to avoid any potential harm to participants. This is true of all participants, not just ones that are deemed ‘vulnerable’ by ethics committees, as trauma is embodied and sticky—often failing to leave the body and embedded in the everyday (Adams‐Hutcheson, 2017). We often do not know the past histories and memories of participants (even those deemed not vulnerable) that could resurface during meditation, haunting the present and playing out across the body.…”

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Mindful methodologies: Some limitations and concerns

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2022

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Mindful methodologies: Some limitations and concerns

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“…Following this, some studies explored vernacular memory through a study of aggregation of personal memories and experiences in the context of post-disaster context. For instance, survivors of the Christchurch, New Zealand, earthquake often involuntarily recalled their pre-earthquake daily memories [17]. Catastrophic events cause personal flashbulb memory; survivors still remember in detail what they were doing several years after the September 11 terrorist attack [18].…”

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A County Town in Ruins: Memories, Emotions, and Sense of Place in Post-Earthquake Beichuan, China

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Ruins serve as symbolic sites at which to re-examine people’s relationships with the past and bonds with places. In the context of the ruination caused by earthquakes and the displacement and resettlement of local residents post-disaster, this paper explores vernacular (residents’ and survivors’) memories, emotions, and senses of place triggered by the ruins of Beichuan county town, China. Results show vernacular memories of specific ruins were highly fragmented and multi-temporal. Interwoven before- and after-quake memories gave rise to complex emotions, mainly including traumatic feeling of sadness, fear, and painful nostalgia. The study further identifies people’s sense of place towards the ruined county town and finds that locals’ sense of place was not accompanied by the loss of physical dependence to the negative side; locals still expressed high levels of place identity (physical uniqueness, self-esteem, and meanings), place attachment (rootedness and emotional attachment), and positive consequences of place behaviours (protection intention and revisiting) post-earthquake. Moreover, it found that sociodemographic variables of age and length of residence in Beichuan and the variables of disaster loss had significant effect on people’s sense of place. This study balances the overriding focus on visual and representational concerns common in ruin scholarship and further reveals the complex psychological processes impacting on sense of place after large-scale disasters. The findings reflect on the relief practices of post-disaster planning and can serve to guide ruin preservation.

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“…For those who have experienced traumatic events, trauma doesn’t leave the body. It is embedded in the skin (Adams-Hutcheson, 2017), and can be manifested through waves of emotion – for example, crying, confusion, fear, lethargy, and emotional distancing (Moss and Prince, 2017). Focusing on emotions opens insights into the mechanisms through which people respond to and potentially exit themselves from coercive situations.…”

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“…Focusing on emotions opens insights into the mechanisms through which people respond to and potentially exit themselves from coercive situations. Indeed, focusing on emotions and even trauma demonstrates the body's corporeal capacities (Adams-Hutcheson, 2017) and provides scope to recognise forms of resistance to or negotiation of unfreedom and exploitation in migration (Pain, 2021).…”

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The trauma of exploitation: Emotional geographies of temporary migration and workplace unfreedom

Collins

Stringer

2022

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This paper advances a focus on emotions as a key dimension of the actualisation of workplace exploitation experienced by temporary migrants. In doing so, we extend understandings of forced labour, unfreedom and migration and their concern for the operation of coercion in employment relations. While political-economic and legal accounts of work and oppression can tell us much about systems that underpin the occurrence of exploitation, we argue that the fluidity of unfreedoms in labour exploitation are fundamentally embodied and shaped by emotional experiences and manipulation. In order to advance this emotional account, we draw on interviews with people holding work and study visas who have experienced workplace exploitation in Aotearoa New Zealand, a context where the rapid growth in temporary migration has been associated with growing evidence of labour market abuse. Our paper addresses three key emotional dimensions of workplace exploitation that emerged in this research: inducement into exploitation, entrapment and the emotional sustenance of exploitation. Through this account we demonstrate how unfreedom is felt in the lives of temporary migrants and point towards the need to rethink both scholarly accounts of forced labour and policy responses to the workplace exploitation of temporary migrants.

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Spatialising skin: Pushing the boundaries of trauma geographies

Cited by 26 publications

References 27 publications

Mindful methodologies: Some limitations and concerns

Mindful methodologies: Some limitations and concerns

A County Town in Ruins: Memories, Emotions, and Sense of Place in Post-Earthquake Beichuan, China

The trauma of exploitation: Emotional geographies of temporary migration and workplace unfreedom

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