{"product_id":"9781786991010","title":"Usurping Suicide: The Political Resonances of Individual Deaths","description":"\u003cp\u003eCan an individual act of suicide be socially significant, or does it present too many imponderable features?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines suicide like no other. Unconcerned with the individual dispositions that lead a person to commit such an act, \u003ci\u003eUsurping Suicide\u003c\/i\u003e 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180009865456,"sku":"9781786991010","price":103.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781786991010_p0.jpg?v=1763738267","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781786991010","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}