Abstract
A few years ago, I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and decided to keep a sort of diary of my experiences and thoughts. This essay is a collection of what I call “episodes” and uses writing and drawing to try to capture something beyond the surface impressions of living with a chronic condition. I present several episodes drawn from the collection that I have been keeping since 2018. In presenting these pieces, I explore the immediate, felt, and affectual geographies of a chronic disease, in an effort to understand the body, chronic disease, corporeal experiences, and the relationship between failure and medicine. The collection foregrounds how the doing of cultural geography is an affective, experiential journey through our bodies, spaces, and times.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 151-156 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | cultural geographies |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Early online date | 30 Jun 2021 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2022 |
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