Suicide Social Dramas: Life-Giving Moral Breakdowns in the Israeli Public Sphere

ISBN-13: 9780367568702 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 176 str.

Haim Hazan; Raquel Romberg

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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