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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Língua Inglês ● Formato PDF ● Páginas 257 ● ISBN 9781786991003 ● Editora Zed Books ● Publicado 2017 ● Carregável 3 vezes ● Moeda EUR ● ID 5390202 ● Proteção contra cópia Adobe DRM
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