Usurping suicide : the political resonances of individual deaths /
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London :
Zed Books,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Halftitle; About the authors; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; One. On suicide archives and political resonances; Approach of this study; Conceptual strands of suicide studies; Relevant areas of suicide studies; The political order of the present; References; Two. The irresistible rise and fall of posthumous Bouazizi; The Bouazizi suicide archive; Ordinary individual to protesting crowd; Academic turns; No tragic figure; References; Three. Austerity annuls the individual: Dimitris Christoulas and the Greek financial crisis; Breaking news; In the British media
- In the Greek mediaReferences; Four. Self-immolations in Bulgaria: a quietly accumulating record; An interview; Bulgaria in 2013: protests and self-immolations; At home and abroad; Exceptional individuals and ordinary people; Professionals and institutions; Nothing in common; References; Five. Self-eff acing suicides and troubled talk; The individual life; "Economic suicides" in Italy; "Eviction suicides" in Spain; Codes for reporters; A descriptive project; References; Index