Usurping suicide : the political resonances of individual deaths / Suman Gupta, Milena Katsarska, Theodoros A. Spyros and Mike Hajimichael.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gupta, Suman, 1966- author.

Katsarska, Milena, author.

Hajimichael, Michael, author.

Spyros, Theodoros, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suicide--Social aspects.

Suicide.

Suicide--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

246 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Zed Books, 2017.

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 On suicide archives and political resonances / Suman Gupta Gupta, Suman 8

2 The irresistible rise and fall of posthumous Bouazizi / Suman Gupta Gupta, Suman 54

3 Austerity annuls the individual: Dimitris Christoulas and the Greek financial crisis / Theodoros A. Spyros Spyros, Theodoros A., Mike Hajimichael Hajimichael, Mike 110

4 Self-immolations in Bulgaria: a quietly accumulating record / Milena Katsarska Katsarska, Milena 154

5 Self-effacing suicides and troubled talk / Suman Gupta Gupta, Suman 210.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781786990990

1786990997

9781786990983

1786990989

OCLC:

979568645