1st Edition

Reframing Suicide The Development of Critical Suicide Studies

Edited By Katrina Jaworski, Ian Marsh Copyright 2025
84 Pages
by Routledge

84 Pages
by Routledge

84 Pages
by Routledge

This book focuses on understanding and researching suicide and suicide prevention from historical, political, cultural, social, and philosophical perspectives, all of which are located in particular contexts of research and practice. Critical suicide studies, as an intellectual movement, has been in the making for over 40 years. Yet it has emerged only in recent times thanks to the global... Read more

Introduction: Knowledge Is Made for Cutting

Katrina Jaworski and Ian Marsh


1. Morality, Mental Illness and the Prevention of Suicide

Eva Yampolsky and Howard I. Kushner


2. The Social Production of Psychocentric Knowledge in Suicidology

Ian Marsh


3. Epistemic Justice and the Struggle for Critical Suicide Literacy

Scott J. Fitzpatrick


4. Subjective Connectivity: Rethinking Loneliness, Isolation and Belonging in Discourses of Minority Youth Suicide

Rob Cover


5. At the Limits of Suicide: The Bad Timing of the Gift

Katrina Jaworski and Daniel G. Scott


6. Towards Ethics of Wonder and Generosity in Critical Suicidology

Katrina Jaworski

 

Biography

Katrina Jaworski is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of South Australia. She researches the agency of suicide, with a focus on gender, sexuality, youth, ethics and poetry. Her publications include numerous academic articles and book chapters, and books such as The Gender of Suicide (2016).

Ian Marsh is Reader and Suicide-Safer Universities project lead at Canterbury Christ Church University. His publications include Suicide: Foucault, History and Truth (2010), and he co-edited Critical Suicidology: Toward Creative Alternatives (2016) and Suicide and Social Justice: New Perspectives on the Politics of Suicide and Suicide Prevention (2020).