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.
Mike Hajimichael & Milena Katsarska
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The Political Resonances of Individual Deaths
Usurping Suicide [EPUB ebook]
The Political Resonances of Individual Deaths
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Idioma Inglés ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 256 ● ISBN 9781786991010 ● Editorial Zed Books ● Publicado 2017 ● Descargable 3 veces ● Divisa EUR ● ID 5390203 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM
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