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
Index
Mark E. Button, PhD, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Political Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA).
Ian Marsh, PhD, is Reader in the School of Allied Health Professions at Canterbury Christ Church University (UK).
"Finally—a book that examines the growing suicide crisis from a
social justice perspective that powerfully disrupts traditional
assumptions and frameworks. This timely book provides an
exceptional body of critical knowledge by highlighting the
importance of understanding the effects of social, political, and
economic forces on human pain and suffering that can make life
unliveable. The unique multidisciplinary scholarship throughout the
volume is brilliant, rigorous, thoughtful, and encourages the
reader to reflect on the social systemic factors involved in the
modern suicide epidemic. The essays within this collection are
life-saving. Suicide and Social Justice is essential reading for
anyone, and everyone, concerned with the public health crisis of
the century." — Heidi Rimke, PhD, Associate Professor of Sociology,
University of Winnipeg"This volume is an important, compelling and
original contribution to the emerging field of critical suicide
studies. By providing a diverse range of perspectives on the
connection between suicide and social justice, the authors set out
new and vital ways to approach and understand suicide. The book
challenges many conventional views and approaches to the issue of
suicide by cogently and carefully showing how suicide must be
framed through the lens of inequality and social justice. Only by
such an approach, in my view, will it be possible to critically and
meaningfully engage with suicide prevention in a realistic,
experiential and holistic manner. Nothing could be more urgent." —
Baden Offord, Director and Dr Haruhisa Handa Chair of Human Rights,
Centre for Human Rights Education, Curtin University"Mark E. Button
and Ian Marsh have woven together an impressive assemblage of
practitioners, persons directly impacted by suicide, and academics,
connected in solidarity with a collective ethics for justice doing.
These tenacious authors/activists challenge the very descriptions
used to express suffering and offer emergent, just practices, rich
critiques, alternative critical analysis of how the harms of
suicide are caused and framed, and ways to better respond with
dignity, justice, liberation, and hope." — Vikki Reynolds, PhD,
Activist, Therapeutic Supervisor, and Adjunct Professor
"Finally—a book that examines the growing suicide crisis from a
social justice perspective that powerfully disrupts traditional
assumptions and frameworks. This timely book provides an
exceptional body of critical knowledge by highlighting the
importance of understanding the effects of social, political, and
economic forces on human pain and suffering that can make life
unliveable. The unique multidisciplinary scholarship throughout the
volume is brilliant, rigorous, thoughtful, and encourages the
reader to reflect on the social systemic factors involved in the
modern suicide epidemic. The essays within this collection are
life-saving. Suicide and Social Justice is essential reading for
anyone, and everyone, concerned with the public health crisis of
the century." — Heidi Rimke, PhD, Associate Professor of Sociology,
University of Winnipeg"This volume is an important, compelling and
original contribution to the emerging field of critical suicide
studies. By providing a diverse range of perspectives on the
connection between suicide and social justice, the authors set out
new and vital ways to approach and understand suicide. The book
challenges many conventional views and approaches to the issue of
suicide by cogently and carefully showing how suicide must be
framed through the lens of inequality and social justice. Only by
such an approach, in my view, will it be possible to critically and
meaningfully engage with suicide prevention in a realistic,
experiential and holistic manner. Nothing could be more urgent." —
Baden Offord, Director and Dr Haruhisa Handa Chair of Human Rights,
Centre for Human Rights Education, Curtin University"Mark E. Button
and Ian Marsh have woven together an impressive assemblage of
practitioners, persons directly impacted by suicide, and academics,
connected in solidarity with a collective ethics for justice doing.
These tenacious authors/activists challenge the very descriptions
used to express suffering and offer emergent, just practices, rich
critiques, alternative critical analysis of how the harms of
suicide are caused and framed, and ways to better respond with
dignity, justice, liberation, and hope." — Vikki Reynolds, PhD,
Activist, Therapeutic Supervisor, and Adjunct Professor
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