Living absence: the strange geographies of missing people.

Parr, Hester; Stevenson, Olivia; Fyfe, Nick; Woolnough, Penny

Abstract

In this paper ‘missing people’ gain an unstable presence through their (restaged) testimonies recounting individual occupations of material urban public space during the lived practice of absence. We explore ‘missing experience’ with reference to homeless geographies, and as constituted by paradoxical spatialities in which people are both absent and present. We seek to understand such urban geographies of absence through diverse voices of missing people, who discuss their embodiment of unusual rhythmic occupations of the city. We conclude by considering how a new politics of missing people might take account of such voices in ways to think further about rights-to-be-absent in the city.

Citation

PARR, H., STEVENSON, O., FYFE, N. and WOOLNOUGH, P. 2015. Living absence: the strange geographies of missing people. Environment and planning D: society and space [online], 33(2), pages 191-208. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1068/d14080p

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Mar 9, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Mar 9, 2015
• Publication Date: Apr 1, 2015
• Deposit Date: May 25, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: May 25, 2021
• Journal: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
• Print ISSN: 0263-7758
• Electronic ISSN: 1472-3433
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 33
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 191-208
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1068/d14080p
• Keywords: Missing people; Strange city; Presence-absence; Rhythms
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1017341