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Usurping Suicide: The Political Resonances of Individual Deaths
Suman Gupta
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Description for Usurping Suicide: The Political Resonances of Individual Deaths
Paperback. A provocative and highly original exploration of suicides that have gained wider political resonance, and the challenge this poses to the liberal order. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFF; JPWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Zed Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786990983
SKU
V9781786990983
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About Suman Gupta
Suman Gupta is a professor of Literature and Cultural History at the Open University, UK, and honorary senior fellow at Roehampton University, UK. Mike Hajimichael is an associate professor at The University of Nicosia, Cyprus, in the Department of Communications. Milena Katsarska lectures in American ... Read more
Reviews for Usurping Suicide: The Political Resonances of Individual Deaths
`Sometimes the depth of an economic crisis can only be fathomed when suicide, that most personal of acts, accrues political meaning and consequence. The authors bring committed insight to political suicides in our time, from Tunisia to Syntagma Square.' Terrence McDonough, co-author of Contemporary Capitalism and its Crises `An original ... Read more