TUNISIA: Self‐Immolation Protest
In: Africa research bulletin. Political, social and cultural series, Band 55, Heft 12
ISSN: 1467-825X
In: Africa research bulletin. Political, social and cultural series, Band 55, Heft 12
ISSN: 1467-825X
In: Peace review: peace, security & global change, Band 33, Heft 4, S. 444-452
ISSN: 1469-9982
In: Politické vedy: časopis pre politológiu, najnovšie dejiny, medzinárodné vztʹahy, bezpec̆nostné s̆túdiá = Political sciences : journal for political sciences, modern history, international relations, security studies, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 95-112
ISSN: 1338-5623
In: Globalizations, Band 12, Heft 1, S. 83-100
ISSN: 1474-774X
In: Globalizations, Band 12, Heft 1, S. 83-100
ISSN: 1474-774X
In: Peace review: the international quarterly of world peace, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 45-52
ISSN: 1040-2659
Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- Transcultural Aspects of Suicide by Self-Immolation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Historical, Religious and Sociopolitical Antecedents of Self-Immolation -- 3 Psychosocial Determinants of Self-Immolation -- 4 Psychodynamic and Socioenvironmental Formulations of Self-Immolation -- 5 The Skin, Haptics, Proxemics, Attachment and Epigenetics -- 6 Culture Specific Aspects of Self-Immolation -- 6.1 The Role of Gender and Violence Against Women -- 7 Recommendations and Prevention -- 8 Conclusions -- References -- Suicide by Self-Immolation: Historical Overview -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Historic Symbolism of Fire -- 3 Immolation as a Traditional Indo-European Custom -- 4 Emergence of Psychiatry and Early Works on Suicide -- 5 Suicide by Burning and Fear of an Epidemic -- 6 Self-Immolation as a Burning Message -- 6.1 The Immolation of Thích Quảng Đức in 1963 -- 7 Self-Immolations Since 1963 -- 8 Self-Immolation and Contemporary Medical Challenges -- 9 Conclusion -- References -- Self-Immolation in Iran -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Demographic Characteristics of Self-Immolators in Iran -- 2.1 Age -- 2.2 Gender -- 2.3 Urban and Rural Areas -- 2.4 Marital Status and Occupation -- 2.5 Education -- 2.6 Mortality Rate -- 2.7 Comparison with Other Suicide Means -- 3 Stressors -- 4 Motivations for Self-Immolation -- 5 Psychological Characteristics of Self-Immolations -- 6 Psychiatric Diagnoses of Self-Immolators -- 7 Socio-Cultural Factors and Self-Immolation -- 8 Conclusion -- References -- Self-Immolation in Afghanistan -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Country Profile and History of Afghanistan -- 3 Honoring Fire in Literature, Religion and Oral Traditions in Afghanistan -- 4 From Honor Killings to Self-Immolation: A Crisis of Women's Rights in Afghanistan -- 5 Mental Health Services, Suicide and Mental Disorders in Afghanistan.
In: Polity, Band 55, Heft 4, S. 812-835
ISSN: 1744-1684
In: Peace Review, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 45-51
In: Vietnam perspectives: publ. by American Friends of Vietnam, Inc, Band 3, Heft 2, S. 28
ISSN: 0506-9823
Self-immolation is a complex rhetorical gesture that confounds many traditional norms of analysis, because it is an act in which the rhetorical canvas is the body. In this dissertation I analyze mediated responses to self-immolation in order to account for when self-immolation is likely to influence an audience and prompt change in society. Based on my findings during this analysis, I constructed an appropriate theory based explanation to illustrate how and why self- immolation achieves widespread resonance in some cases but not in others. First, the self- immolation must be recognized as justified due to a widely perceived crisis. In other words, the audience of the self-immolation must be able to comprehend why someone would take such an extreme action. Second, the protest must resonate with the audience's values and cultural beliefs. Whether due to religion or some other factor, the mediated narratives of self-immolations must be framed in a way that generates identification. Third, the style and power of the government in charge of the self-immolator's community will have a significant influence on how the self- immolator's story is told. Following an introduction to this study and a description of the history and religious roots of self-immolation, I apply this theory to multiple cases of self-immolation. In Chapter Three I analyze self-immolations during the Vietnam War era. In Chapters Four and Five I analyze self-immolations in Tibet and the Arab Spring, respectively. Finally, in Chapter Six, I discuss the implications of this study.
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In: Nationalities papers: the journal of nationalism and ethnicity, Band 28, Heft 2, S. 317-342
ISSN: 0090-5992
In: Nationalities papers: the journal of nationalism and ethnicity, Band 28, Heft 2, S. 317-341
ISSN: 1465-3923
In the summer of 1978, a Crimean Tatar man named Musa Mamut walked out of his home in a small village in the Crimea toward a policeman waiting for him at his front gate. He was to be taken to the station for questioning, and quite possibly arrested for "violation of the passport regime." But Mamut had already drenched himself with gasoline and, lighting a match, was engulfed in flames. He ran toward the policeman, who ran the other way. A deliveryman tripped Musa, and two friends who had been passing by extinguished the flames. His friends took him to the Simferopol city hospital, where he died six days later, never expressing any regret for what he did.
"Extreme conditions lead to extreme protest, and contradictions between the Buddhist-inflected rhetoric of non-harm and the agony of self-immolation have been accounted for variously. The interpreters create descriptions that reflect, select, and sometimes deflect the reality of the burning corpse, calling attention to a certain place and time. In this volume, John Whalen-Bridge applies Kenneth Burke's interpretive suggestions to the phenomenon of a Buddhist-inflected self-immolation movement. Tibet on Fire considers the possibility that the self-burnings could be interpreted as an extension of the struggle that constitutes part of what Kenneth Burke called a 'logomachy.' The volume seeks to: open up the possibility of multiple motivations, explain the significance of shifting contexts, and explore the pervasive substitutions in which the self-immolator and the Dalai Lama trade places in attempts to understand the Tibetan situation. "--