Usurping Suicide

<p>Can an individual act of suicide be socially significant, or does it present too many imponderable features?<br><br>This book examines suicide like no other. Unconcerned with the individual dispositions that lead a person to commit such an act, <i>Usurping Suicide</i> 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?<br><br>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.</p>