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Usurping Suicide : The Political Resonances of Individual Deaths, Paperback / softback Book

Usurping Suicide : The Political Resonances of Individual Deaths Paperback / softback

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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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