Usurping Suicide - The Political Resonances of Individual Deaths

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, 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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• Authors: Professor Suman Gupta, Professor Suman Katsarska Gupta, Suman Gupta, Suman Katsarska Gupta, Mike Hajimichael, Hajimichael Mike, Milena Katsarska, Katsarska Milena, Theodoros Spyros, Theodoros A Spyros, Theodoros A. Spyros
• Assisted by: Suman Gupta (Editor), Mike Hajimichael (Editor), Milena Katsarska (Editor)
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781786990983
• ISBN: 978-1-78699-098-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 216 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Cultural Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Spain, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Greece, Bulgaria, Political science & theory, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Tunisia, Political science and theory, Demonstrations & protest movements, Society and Social Sciences, For higher / tertiary / university education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher, For higher education, universities (Denmark)