Usurping Suicide

The Political Resonances of Individual Deaths

AvSuman Gupta,Milena Katsarska

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Engelska, 2017

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Can an individual act of suicide be socially significant, or does it present too many imponderable features?This book examines suicide like no other. Unconcerned with the individual dispositions that lead a person to commit such an act, Usurping Suicide focuses on the reception suicides have produced – their political, social and cultural implications. How does a particular act of suicide enable a collective significance to be attached to it? And what contextual circumstances predispose a politicised public response?From Mohamed Bouazizi's self-immolation during regime change in Tunisia to Dimitris Christoulas's public shooting at a time of increased political upheaval in Greece, and beyond – this remarkable work examines how the individuality of the act of suicide poses a disturbing symbolic conundrum for the dominant liberal order.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-08-15
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781786991010
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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Samhälle och kultur inom Samhälle och politik
Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Suman Gupta is a professor of Literature and Cultural History at the Open University, UK, and honorary senior fellow at Roehampton University, UK.Mike Hajimichael is an associate professor at The University of Nicosia, Cyprus, in the Department of Communications.Milena Katsarska lectures in American studies at Plovdiv University, Bulgaria.Theodoros A. Spyros is a post-doctoral fellow of historical sociology at the University of Crete, and adjunct academic staff in the sociology and anthropology of sports at the Hellenic Open University.

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An original study of those moments when the act of ending one's own life can acquire public and political significance. The authors bring a fresh approach to an old problem: why individuals choose to end their lives and what meaning the act can have for those left behind.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction1. On Suicide Archives and Political Resonances - Suman Gupta2. The Irresistible Rise and Fall of Posthumous Bouazizi - Suman Gupta3. Austerity Annuls the Individual: Dimitris Christoulas and the Greek Financial Crisis - Theodoros A. Spyros and Mike Hajimichael4. Self-Immolations in Bulgaria: A Quietly Accumulating Record - Milena Katsarska5. Self-Effacing Suicides and Troubled Talk - Suman Gupta