Suicide social dramas life-giving moral breakdowns in the Israeli public sphere / Haim Hazan and Raquel Romberg.
| Author/creator | Hazan, Haim |
| Other author | Romberg, Raquel. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge Advances in Sociology |
| Contents | Heroic and nonheroic shame - nation-state-building and betrayal -- Civic and private shame of betrayed and betraying buddies -- Systemic shaming or catch-22 suicides -- Shaming the state -- Cyber shaming -- Shaming the nation -- A genealogy of Israeli shame and shaming. |
| Abstract | "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. An analysis of the social dramas, cultural performances, and suicide talk aired in the Israeli public sphere, it suggests that such public glossing practices atone for and bring about the symbolic rectification of the socially detrimental effects of suicide. Drawing on Durkheim's thought on the social significance of suicide and the sacred cohesive power of society's self-representations through rituals and commemorations, the authors revamp the contemporary pertinence of these cultural devices, showing how, in the process of reconstituting and redressing the disrupted order, suicide talk constitutes a revival mechanism of communal 'life giving'. A rekindling of the Durkheimian approach to suicide that examines how society deals with suicide's shattering of normative we-feelings, Suicide Social Dramas: Moral Breakdowns in the Israeli Public Sphere will appeal to scholars and students of sociology and anthropology with interests in social theory, Israel studies, suicide studies, and the interpretation of societal and cultural processes"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Hazan, Haim. Suicide social dramas London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022 9780367568702 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021003381 |
| ISBN | 9781003099741 (ebook) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |