Stevenson, O;
(2016)
Suicidal journeys: attempted suicide as geographies of intended death.
Social & Cultural Geography
, 17
(2)
pp. 189-206.
10.1080/14649365.2015.1118152.
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Abstract
In geography, a conversation around suicide survivors and their suicidal journeys has yet to happen. The current prioritisation of suicide as end points marked on maps and patterns of death in space and regions has obscured the lived experience of adults who attempt suicide and do not die. In an effort to reduce this invisibility, evidence derived from in-depth interviews with adults (18 years and over reported as missing) who freely delivered narratives of their attempts is employed to understand the complex spatiality of suicide in retrospect. Situating suicide survivors as knowledgeable about their feelings, beliefs and experiences, the paper encounters testimonies of intended death via a focus on spatialised journeys: physical routes, pathways and places of attempted suicide. Discussing these particular journeys as socio-spatial process represents the potential for geographical scholars to rework geographies of dying and (attempted) death as an active practice.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Suicidal journeys: attempted suicide as geographies of intended death |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14649365.2015.1118152 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2015.1118152 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2015 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | suicide, survivors, journeys, death, dying, testimony |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > VP: Research |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10129664 |
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