Urban Lament - Collective Expressions of Pain, Rage, and Affection Paul Valéry STEPH FRANCIS-SHANAHAN

STEPH FRANCIS-SHANAHAN

and spirituality

Beyond simply calling for more consumer boycotts

urban architect Ricardo Avella

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Urban Lament - Collective Expressions of Pain, Rage, and Affection Paul Valéry STEPH FRANCIS-SHANAHANLamentation practices can empower the potentiality to defy patriarchal orders ruling everyday life. Always a collective process, lamentation inscribes loss and vulnerability by tending bridges towards the world of the dead and the more than human. Gestures such as singing or breathing, gathering, and performances that exceed rationality can inspire a renewed approach to life and death, rural and urban. After all, amidst ongoing processes of