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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.

"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. "--

A conceptually rich, historically informed, and interdisciplinary study of the contentious politics emerging out of decades of authoritarian neoliberal economic reform, The Roots of Revolt examines the contested political economy of Egypt from Nasser to Mubarak, just prior to the Arab Uprisings of 2010-11. Based on extensive fieldwork conducted across rural and urban Egypt, Angela Joya employs an 'on the ground' approach to critical political economy that challenges the interpretations of Egyptian politics put forward by scholars of both democratization and authoritarianism. By critically reassessing the relationship between democracy and capitalist development, Joya demonstrates how renewed authoritarian politics were required to institutionalize neoliberal reforms demanded by the International Monetary Fund, presenting the real-world impact of economic policy on the lives of ordinary Egyptians before the Arab Uprisings.

Part I. The Framework: 1. Political self-sacrifice / 33. - 2. Agency / 55. - 3. Body and emotion / 78. - Part II. The Historical Cases: 4. Hunger strikes in Northern Ireland, 1980-1981 / 107. - 5. Martyrdom in Poland, 1984 / 134. - 6. Self-immolation in Vietnam, 1963 / 160. - Part III. Comparisons and Conclusions: 7. Martyrdom in the contemporary Middle East and north Africa / 193. - 8. The public diplomacy of suffering / 228

Politics and Suicide argues that whilst the historical lineage of suicidal politics is recognised, the fundamental significance of autodestruction to the political remains under examined. It contends that practices like suicide-bombing do not simply embody a strange or abnormal suicidal articulation of the political, but rather, that the existence of suicidal politics tells us something fundamental about the political as such and thinking about political violence more broadly. Recent world events have emphatically shown our need for tools with which to develop better understandings of the politics of suicide. Through the exploration of several arresting case-studies, including the Kamikaze bombers of World War Two, Jan Palach's self-immolation in 1969, Cold War nuclear deterrence, and the suicide-terrorist attacks of 9/11 Michelsen asks how we might talk of a political suicide in any of these contexts. The book charts how political processes go suicidal, and asks how we might still consider them to be political in such a case. It investigates how suicide can function as politics. A strong contribution to the fields of philosophy and international relations theory, this work will also be of interest to students and scholars of political theory and terrorism and political violence.--

Based on interviews with failed suicide bombers, officials of Pakistani law enforcement agencies involved in interrogating high-profile self-immolation attacks, and content analysis of Jihadi publications produced in local languages, this book offers the first empirically grounded analysis of suicide terrorism in Pakistan.