Haim Hazan, Raquel Romberg

Suicide Social Dramas

Life-Giving Moral Breakdowns in the Israeli Public Sphere

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Produktbeschreibung

Through an ethnohistorical chronicling of the emotionally-laden treatment of selected suicide media-events, this book offers a neo-Durkheimian account of suicide, addressing its social-moral threat and the ensuing need to gloss over its unsettling incomprehensibility.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 292g
• ISBN-13: 9780367568719
• ISBN-10: 0367568713
• Artikelnr.: 67826348

Autorenporträt

Haim Hazan is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology and co-director of the Minerva Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the End of Life at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He is the author of Old Age: Constructions and Deconstructions and Against Hybridity: Social Impasses in a Globalizing World. Raquel Romberg is Senior Researcher at the Minerva Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the End of Life, Tel Aviv University, Israel. She is the author of Healing Dramas: Divination and Magic in Modern Puerto Rico and Witchcraft and Welfare: Spiritual Capital and the Business of Magic in Modern Puerto Rico.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Heroic and Nonheroic Shame: Nation-State Building and
Betrayal 2. Civic and Private Shame of Betrayed and Betraying Buddies 3.
Systemic Shaming or Catch-22 Suicides 4. Shaming the State 5. Cyber Shaming
6. Shaming the Nation Epilogue: A Genealogy of Israeli Shame and Shaming