Usurping Suicide

The Political Resonances of Individual Deaths

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Education & Teaching, Higher Education, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Social Science
Cover of the book Usurping Suicide by Milena Katsarska, Theodoros A. Spyros, Mike Hajimichael, Professor Suman Gupta, Zed Books
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Author: Milena Katsarska, Theodoros A. Spyros, Mike Hajimichael, Professor Suman Gupta ISBN: 9781786991010
Publisher: Zed Books Publication: August 15, 2017
Imprint: Zed Books Language: English
Author: Milena Katsarska, Theodoros A. Spyros, Mike Hajimichael, Professor Suman Gupta
ISBN: 9781786991010
Publisher: Zed Books
Publication: August 15, 2017
Imprint: Zed Books
Language: English

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.

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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.

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