Description
| Product ID: | 9781786990983 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Usurping Suicide |
| Subtitle: | The Political Resonances of Individual Deaths |
| Authors: | Author: Mike Hajimichael, Theodoros A. Spyros, Suman Gupta, Milena Katsarska |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Cultural studies, Media studies, Political science and theory, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Cultural studies, Media studies, Political science & theory, Demonstrations & protest movements |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A provocative and highly original exploration of suicides that have gained wider political resonance, and the challenge this poses to the liberal order. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Zed Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-08-15 |
