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This chapter focuses on the theme of ‘practices’ and the ways in which both bereavement professionals and bereaved people seek to manage grief. Drawing on empirical interview data from bereavement care practitioners, the chapter explores the concept of ‘grief work’: what grief work involves and how recovery is negotiated in bereavement care practice. The formal forms of ‘grief work’ detailed are contrasted with the types of ‘work’ described by bereaved people that focus on the everyday routines of the household and the role of material spaces and objects. In the chapter Pearce draws on the concept of ‘affective practices’ to argue that grief is more than an internal psychological process but is an embodied, material and relational practice.
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Pearce, C. (2019). Affective Practices: Managing Grief. In: The Public and Private Management of Grief. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17662-4_4
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