Undoing suicidism : a trans, queer, crip approach to rethinking (assisted) suicide / Alexandre Baril ; foreword by Robert McRuer.
| Author/creator | Baril, Alexandre, 1979- author. |
| Other author | McRuer, Robert, 1966- writer of foreword. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2023. |
| Copyright Date | ©2023 |
| Description | xxii, 309 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Trans, queer, crip approach to rethinking (assisted) suicide |
| Contents | Foreword / Robert McRuer -- Introduction: Suicidal Manifesto -- Journey into a Suicidal Mind: From the Personal to the Theoretical -- Suicidism, Compulsory Aliveness and the Injunction to Live and to Futurity -- (Un)doing Suicide: (Re)signifying Terms -- Autothanatotheory: A Methodological and Conceptual Toolbox -- Dissecting (Assisted) Suicide: The Structure of the Book -- PART I: Rethinking Suicide. 1. Suicidism: A Theoretical Framework for Conceptualizing Suicide -- 1.1. The Main Models of Suicidality -- 1.2. The Ghosts in Suicidality Models -- 1.3. Alternative Conceptualizations of Suicidality -- 1.4. Suicidism as Epistemic Violence -- 1.5. Final Words -- 2. Queering and Transing Suicide: Rethinking LGBTQ Suicidality -- 2.1. Discourses on LGBTQ Suicidality as Somatechnologies of Life -- 2.2. Alternative Approaches to Trans Suicidality: Trans Lifeline and DISCHARGED -- 2.3. A Failure to Really Fail: Queer Theory, Suicidality, and (Non)Futurity -- 2.4. Final Words -- 3. Cripping and Maddening Suicide: Rethinking Disabled/Mad Suicidality -- 3.1. Discourses on Disabled/Mad Suicidality as Somatechnologies of Life -- 3.2. Alternative Approaches to Disabled/Mad Suicidality -- 3.3. Suicidality as Disability: Rethinking Suicidality through Cripistemology -- 3.4. Final Words -- PART II: Rethinking Assisted Suicide. 4. The Right-to-die Movement and its Ableist/Sanist/Ageist/Suicidist Ontology of Assisted Suicide -- 4.1. Right-to-die Discourses as Somatechnologies of Life -- 4.2. Ableist, Sanist, and Ageist Assumptions in Right-to-die Discourses -- 4.3. Suicidist Presumptions in Right-to-die Discourses -- 4.4. Cripping Right-to-die Discourses: Rethinking Access to Assisted Suicide -- 4.5. Final Words -- 5. Queering, Transing, Cripping, and Maddening Assisted Suicide -- 5.1. Queercrip Model of (Assisted) Suicide -- 5.2. Suicide-affirmative Approach -- 5.3. Potential Objections to a Suicide-affirmative Approach -- 5.4. Thanatopolitics of Assisted Suicide as an Ethics of Living -- 5.5. Final Words -- Conclusion: Can the Suicidal Subject Speak? Suicidal People's Voices as MicroResistance. |
| Abstract | "This book proposes a radical queercrip reconceptualization of suicide and assisted suicide, offering the first comprehensive antisuicidist and intersectional theorization of its kind. Alexandre Baril argues that current logics of prevention create a system of structural suicidism that oppresses, stigmatizes, and pathologizes marginalized individuals and communities experiencing suicidality"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | This book includes some material from previously published articles/chapters. An earlier version of Chapter 1 (and short passages in other chapters and the introduction) previously appeared in Disability Studies Quarterly. An earlier version of Chapter 2 (and a passage in the introduction) previously appeared in Somatechnics. Some other short passages previously appeared in Criminologie (in French), Frontières (in French), and The Disability Bioethics Reader. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781439924082 |
| LCCN | 2022056770 |
| ISBN | 9781439924068 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1439924066 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781439924075 paperback |
| ISBN | 1439924074 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | HV6545 .B2525 2023 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |