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In Pursuit of the Good Life: Aspiration and Suicide in Globalizing South India
Jocelyn Lim Chua
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Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 364.
Once celebrated as a model development for its progressive social indicators, the southern Indian state of Kerala has earned the new distinction as the nation's suicide capital, with suicide rates soaring to triple the national average since 1990. Rather than an aberration on the path to development and modernity, Keralites understand this crisis to be the bitter fruit borne of these historical struggles and the aspirational dilemmas they have produced in everyday life. Suicide, therefore, offers a powerful lens onto the experiential and affective dimensions of development and global change in the postcolonial world. In the long shadow of ... Read more
Once celebrated as a model development for its progressive social indicators, the southern Indian state of Kerala has earned the new distinction as the nation's suicide capital, with suicide rates soaring to triple the national average since 1990. Rather than an aberration on the path to development and modernity, Keralites understand this crisis to be the bitter fruit borne of these historical struggles and the aspirational dilemmas they have produced in everyday life. Suicide, therefore, offers a powerful lens onto the experiential and affective dimensions of development and global change in the postcolonial world. In the long shadow of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
364g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520281165
SKU
V9780520281165
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About Jocelyn Lim Chua
Jocelyn Lim Chua is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Reviews for In Pursuit of the Good Life: Aspiration and Suicide in Globalizing South India
"A timely and important contribution to the emerging anthropological critique of 'suicide' as a kind of human behaviour and as an object for social and medical intervention."
Dr. Tom Widger Centre for Medical Humanities
Dr. Tom Widger Centre for Medical Humanities