Gupta, Suman; Katsarska, Milena; Spyros, Theodoros A. and Hajimichael, Mike (2017). Usurping Suicide: The Political Resonances of Individual Deaths. London: Zed.
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Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2017 The Authors |
| ISBN: | 1-78699-098-9, 978-1-78699-098-3 |
| Academic Unit/School: | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities > English & Creative Writing Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) |
| Item ID: | 50542 |
| Depositing User: | Suman Gupta |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Aug 2017 14:42 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Aug 2019 08:50 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/50542 |
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