Hope in the Liminal Space

Title
Hope in the Liminal Space
Publication Date
2014
Author(s)
Wayland, Sarah
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7040-6397
Email: swaylan2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:swaylan2
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement
Place of publication
Australia
UNE publication id
une:15355
Abstract
Each year in Australia 35,000 people are reported missing to law enforcement agencies (James, Anderson, & Putt, 2008). When a person is missing those who are left behind exist in a space between the person being both here and gone (Boss, 1999). Within this space, a sense of ambiguous loss is punctuated by feelings of hope. Given the lack of certainty surrounding the permanency of the loss and the absence of the customary markers of grief, those left behind "engage the future in an extended or suspended present" (Hogben, 2006, p. 333). A study currently being undertaken by the author seeks to deconstruct hope and its dual role in being attached to the relational bond with the missing person, as well as the individual's capacity to exist in a space where hope and despair shift on a fluctuating basis, known as a "liminal space".
Link
Citation
Grief Matters: The Australian Journal of Grief and Bereavement, 17(1), p. 25-25
ISSN
1440-6888
Start page
25
End page
25

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