ABSTRACT
Suicide and Social Justice unites diverse scholarly and social justice perspectives on the international problem of suicide and suicidal behavior.
With a focus on social justice, the book seeks to understand the complex interactions between individual and group experiences with suicidality and various social pathologies, including inequality, intergenerational poverty, racism, sexism, and homophobia. Chapters investigate the underlying and often overlooked connections that link rising rates and disproportionate concentrations of suicide within specific populations to wider social, political, and economic conditions.
This edited volume brings diverse scholarly and social justice perspectives to bear on the problem of suicide and suicidal behavior, equipping researchers and practitioners with the knowledge they need to fundamentally rethink suicide and suicide prevention.
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction
Mark E. Button and Ian Marsh
Part I
1. Suicide and Social Justice: Discourse, Politics and Experience
Ian Marsh
2. Shame as Affective Injustice: Qualitative, Sociological Explorations of Self-Harm, Suicide and Socioeconomic Inequalities
Amy Chandler
Part II
3. Cultural Continuity and Indigenous Youth Suicide
Michael J. Chandler and Christopher E. Lalonde
4. Strengthening Borders and Toughening Up on Welfare: Deaths by Suicide in the UK’s Hostile Environment
China Mills
5. Suicidal Regimes: Public Policy and the Formation of Vulnerability to Suicide
Mark E. Button
6. Protest Suicide among Muslim Women: A Human Rights Perspective
Silvia Sara Canetto and Mohsen Rezaeian
7. From Psychocentric Explanations to Social Troubles: Challenging Dominant Discourse on Suicide in Ghana
Joseph Osafo
Part III
8. I Am a Suicide Waiting to Happen: Reframing Self-Completed Murder and Death
Bee Scherer
self murder: Poem by Daniel G. Scott
9. It Takes a Village: The Nonprofessional Mental Health Worker Movement
Rebecca S. Morse, Michael J. Kral, Maura McFadden, Janet McCord and Lory Barsdate Easton
10. Availability and Quality of Mental Healthcare Services for Veterans at Risk for Suicide
Craig J. Bryan, AnnaBelle O. Bryan, David C. Rozek, Feea R. Leifker and Alexis M. May
11. Hello Cruel World! Embracing a Collective Ethics for Suicide Prevention
Jennifer White
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