Bagelman, Caroline and Bagelman, Jen (2024) Digital geographies of miscarriage: A ‘sister-ethnographic’ approach to pregnancy apps and loss. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. ISSN 0020-2754
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Abstract Pregnancy apps have become a popular healthcare tool with millions of users worldwide. While branded as inclusive, they nevertheless normalise a particular pregnancy journey: one culminating in birth. Knowing that pregnancies end for various reasons – with one in five resulting in miscarriage – we seek to challenge this narrow framing. Deviating from existing literature, our paper explores the emotional geographies of pregnancy apps when birth is not the outcome. Set through a series of ‘app annotations’ by two sisters navigating pregnancy loss, our paper explores how a leading app was intimately encountered. Drawing inspiration from graphics literature, we advance a new method and activist tool that centres the body – and particularly embodied loss – in digital debates. In so doing we hope to turn geography's ‘digital turn’ towards a more creative set of tools, heeding feminist calls to engage technological intimacies. Vitally, this work illuminates those lives (and losses) systematically excluded – often in the name of life itself.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information and Comments: | This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | creative methods, digital, feminist geographies, fertilities, loss, pregnancy apps |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Education and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Carly Bagelman |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Jul 2024 08:06 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Jul 2024 08:06 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/4331 |
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