1st Edition
Suicide Social Dramas Life-Giving Moral Breakdowns in the Israeli Public Sphere
Introduction
1. Heroic and Nonheroic Shame - Nation-State-Building and Betrayal
2. Civic and Private Shame of Betrayed and Betraying Buddies
3. Systemic Shaming or Catch-22 Suicides
4. Shaming the State
5. Cyber Shaming
6. Shaming the Nation
Epilogue: A Genealogy of Israeli Shame and Shaming
Biography
Haim Hazan is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology and co-director of the Minerva Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the End of Life at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He is the author of Old Age: Constructions and Deconstructions and Against Hybridity: Social Impasses in a Globalizing World.
Raquel Romberg is Senior Researcher at the Minerva Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the End of Life, Tel Aviv University, Israel. She is the author of Healing Dramas: Divination and Magic in Modern Puerto Rico and Witchcraft and Welfare: Spiritual Capital and the Business of Magic in Modern Puerto Rico.
