The Public and Private Management of Grief Recovering Normal
Through a critical analysis of theory, policy and practice, The Public and Private Management of Grief looks at how 'recovery' is the prevailing discourse that measures and frames how people grieve, and considers what happens when people 'fail'
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The Public and Private Management of Grief
Caroline Pearce
The Public and Private Management of Grief Recovering Normal
Caroline Pearce King’s College London London, UK
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Preface
On completing a research project, it can be difficult to recall the initial reasons that motivated one to pursue that particular area of study. In the course of carrying out the research that fills the pages of this book I was often faced with the question: Why did you choose to research this topic? This seemingly innocent question felt fraught and complex as my topic of choice was something which made many people feel uncomfortable. Having spent at least ten years intellectually preoccupied with grief, bereavement, death, and illness, the question became a personal bugbear of mine. Answering such queries often opened up an inquiry into my personal motivations and private life in a way that made me feel exposed. It seemed that my interest in grief could be explained only by some traumatic event in my own life, as though my intellectual preoccupations were directed by my emotional disposition; a demonstration of my own unresolved mourning. In this process of speaking about grief, the grief became attached to me. Or, borrowing the words of Sara Ahmed, in speaking about a problem, I became the problem. For me this caused considerable frustration, as though my scholarly work was a thinly disguised attempt to figure out my own problems. It ma
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