This Toxic Material: A Poetic (Re)Presentation of Cancer/Environment Assemblages. Issue 4 (February 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gullion, Jessica Smartt
• Is Part Of: International review of qualitative research. Volume 7:Issue 4(2014)
• Page Start: 401
• Page End: 420
• Publication Date: 2014-02
• Subjects: arts-based research -- cancer and the environment -- cancer assemblages -- cancer cluster -- object-oriented ontology -- poetic representation; Qualitative research -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; Social justice -- Periodicals; Qualitative research; Social justice; Social sciences -- Research; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 001.42
• DOI: 10.1525/irqr.2014.7.4.401
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1940-8447

Abstract

In this project, I explore cancer/environment assemblages as situated in a geographic space identified as having excess cancer incidence. I draw on theories of vibrant materialism to draw interconnections between the cultural and natural experiences of cancer. Through in-depth interviews with cancer patients who attribute their cancer to an environmental cause, I seek to understand how they position themselves within the assemblage. I invite the reader to connect to this assemblage through a rhizome of poetic representation.