Ruptured Atlas: a trauma-informed approach to spatial storytelling for survivors of genocide

Written By Kimbal Bumstead

I am excited to announce the publication of the Co-authored paper about the Ruptured Atlas project I collaborated on last year. Published by LSE Middle East Centre and written together with Sana Murrani (University of Plymouth), Zoe Paris (Yazda), and Ghazi Murad Ismael, Jameela Rasho and Omeed Khider Joqey (participants in the project), and Myself. The paper explores the background behind the project and describes how we worked with a group of Yazidi researchers using multi-modal participatory mapping techniques to tell stories of displacement, home and return. We discuss non-verbal spatial storytelling as a form of collective expression and healing, and have created a trauma-informed policy toolkit designed to influence housing and migration policies both in Iraq and the UK.

The paper is freely available to download via the LSE website https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/128743/

also, here is a link to the Atlas
https://ruptured-atlas.shorthandstories.com/ruptured-atlas/

Kimbal Bumstead
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