Suicide Social Dramas - Life-Giving Moral Breakdowns in the Israeli Public Sphere

Through an ethnohistorical chronicling of the emotionally-laden treatment of selected suicide media-events, this book offers a neo-Durkheimian account of suicide, addressing its social-moral threat and the ensuing need to gloss over its unsettling incomprehensibility.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Heroic and Nonheroic Shame: Nation-State Building and Betrayal 2. Civic and Private Shame of Betrayed and Betraying Buddies 3. Systemic Shaming or Catch-22 Suicides 4. Shaming the State 5. Cyber Shaming 6. Shaming the Nation Epilogue: A Genealogy of Israeli Shame and Shaming

About the author

Haim Hazan is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology and co-director of the Minerva Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the End of Life at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He is the author of Old Age: Constructions and Deconstructions and Against Hybridity: Social Impasses in a Globalizing World.
Raquel Romberg is Senior Researcher at the Minerva Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the End of Life, Tel Aviv University, Israel. She is the author of Healing Dramas: Divination and Magic in Modern Puerto Rico and Witchcraft and Welfare: Spiritual Capital and the Business of Magic in Modern Puerto Rico.

Summary

Through an ethnohistorical chronicling of the emotionally-laden treatment of selected suicide media-events, this book offers a neo-Durkheimian account of suicide, addressing its social-moral threat and the ensuing need to gloss over its unsettling incomprehensibility.

Product details

• Authors: Haim Hazan, Haim (Tel Aviv University Hazan, Hazan Haim, Raquel Romberg, Romberg Raquel
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9780367568719
• ISBN: 978-0-367-56871-9
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Sociology: death and dying, Sociology: Death & Dying