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

by Haim Hazan, Raquel Romberg, Haim Hazan - חיים חזן

Book Overview

Through an ethnohistorical chronicling of the emotionally-laden treatment of selected suicide media-events, this book offers a neo-Durkheimean 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367568713
• ISBN13: 9780367568719
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"