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In pursuit of the good life : aspiration and suicide in globalizing South India / Jocelyn Lim Chua.
De Gruyter University of California Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chua, Jocelyn Lim.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Suicide--Social aspects--India--Kerala.
- Suicide.
- East Indians--India--Kerala--Psychology.
- East Indians.
- East Indians--India--Kerala--Social conditions.
- Kerala (India)--Social conditions--21st century.
- Kerala (India).
- Kerala (India)--Economic conditions--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (255 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Once celebrated as a model development for its progressive social indicators, the southern Indian state of Kerala has earned the new distinction as the nation's suicide capital, with suicide rates soaring to triple the national average since 1990. Rather than an aberration on the path to development and modernity, Keralites understand this crisis to be the bitter fruit borne of these historical struggles and the aspirational dilemmas they have produced in everyday life. Suicide, therefore, offers a powerful lens onto the experiential and affective dimensions of development and global change in the postcolonial world .In the long shadow of fear and uncertainty that suicide casts in Kerala, living acquires new meaning and contours. In this powerful ethnography, Jocelyn Chua draws on years of fieldwork to broaden the field of vision beyond suicide as the termination of life, considering how suicide generates new ways of living in these anxious times.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note
- Introduction
- 1. Between the Devil and the Deep Sea
- 2. Gazing at the Stars, Aiming for the Treetops
- 3. Tales the Dead Are Made to Tell
- 4. Care-full Acts
- 5. Anywhere but Here
- 6. Fit for the Future
- Afterword
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780520957640
- 0520957644
- OCLC:
- 871257560
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