In pursuit of the good life : aspiration and suicide in globalizing South India /
"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...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- PART ONE. The "Problem" of Striving
- 1 Between the Devil and the Deep Sea
- 2 Gazing at the Stars, Aiming for the Treetops
- 3 Tales the Dead Are Made to Tell
- PART TWO. On Living in a Time of Suicide
- 4 Care-full Acts
- 5 Anywhere but Here
- 6 Fit for the Future
- Afterword
- Notes
- References
- Index.