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The Twice‐Killed: Imagining Protest Suicide

Author(s) -

ANDRIOLO KARIN

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

american anthropologist

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51

H-Index - 85

eISSN - 1548-1433

pISSN - 0002-7294

DOI - 10.1525/aa.2006.108.1.100

Subject(s) - experiential learning , politics , sociology , history , service (business) , gender studies , aesthetics , political science , law , art , economy , economics , pedagogy

The inspiration I take from J. M. Coetzee's book Elizabeth Costello (2003) is his advocacy of imagining as an alternative to rational thought. Imagining, as I understand him, is mindwork that engages the body as an experiential and metaphorical site. I apply this notion of imagining to suicides conducted in the service of political protest: The fatal hunger strike of ten prisoners in Northern Ireland in 1981 and Jan Palach's self‐immolation in Prague in 1969. Three questions direct the exploration of their trajectories: What feeds the hope for the effectiveness of protest suicides? How do they use the body as a performance site? Do such suicides call for an ethics of attentiveness?

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