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Usurping Suicide

The Political Resonances of Individual Deaths
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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.

Author Biography:

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.
Release date Australia
August 15th, 2017
Audiences
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Pages
256
ISBN-13
9781786990983
Product ID
26747441

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