Undoing Suicidism
Subtitle: A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to Rethinking  Suicide
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: May 26, 2023
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9781439924075
Copyright date: 2023
Notes: This book includes some material from previously published articles/chapters. An earlier version of Chapter 1 (and short passages in other chapters and the introduction)
previously appeared in Disability Studies Quarterly. An earlier version of Chapter 2 (and a passage in the introduction) previously appeared in Somatechnics. Some other short
passages previously appeared in Criminologie (in French), Frontières (in French), and The Disability Bioethics Reader
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Robert McRuer; title: Introduction: Suicidal Manifesto; title: Journey into a Suicidal Mind: From the Personal to the Theoretical; title: Suicidism, Compulsory Aliveness and the Injunction to Live and to Futurity; title: (Un)doing Suicide: (Re)signifying Terms; title: Autothanatotheory: A Methodological and Conceptual Toolbox; title: Dissecting (Assisted) Suicide: The Structure of the Book; label: PART I:
title: Rethinking Suicide; label: 1.
title: Suicidism: A Theoretical Framework for Conceptualizing Suicide; label: 1.1.
title: The Main Models of Suicidality; label: 1.2.
title: The Ghosts in Suicidality Models; label: 1.3.
title: Alternative Conceptualizations of Suicidality; label: 1.4.
title: Suicidism as Epistemic Violence; label: 1.5.
title: Final Words; label: 2.
title: Queering and Transing Suicide: Rethinking LGBTQ Suicidality; label: 2.1.
title: Discourses on LGBTQ Suicidality as Somatechnologies of Life; label: 2.2.
title: Alternative Approaches to Trans Suicidality: Trans Lifeline and DISCHARGED; label: 2.3.
title: A Failure to Really Fail: Queer Theory, Suicidality, and (Non)Futurity; label: 2.4.
title: Final Words; label: 3.
title: Cripping and Maddening Suicide: Rethinking Disabled/Mad Suicidality; label: 3.1.
title: Discourses on Disabled/Mad Suicidality as Somatechnologies of Life; label: 3.2.
title: Alternative Approaches to Disabled/Mad Suicidality; label: 3.3.
title: Suicidality as Disability: Rethinking Suicidality through Cripistemology; label: 3.4.
title: Final Words; label: PART II:
title: Rethinking Assisted Suicide; label: 4.
title: The Right-to-die Movement and its Ableist/Sanist/Ageist/Suicidist Ontology of Assisted Suicide; label: 4.1.
title: Right-to-die Discourses as Somatechnologies of Life; label: 4.2.
title: Ableist, Sanist, and Ageist Assumptions in Right-to-die Discourses; label: 4.3.
title: Suicidist Presumptions in Right-to-die Discourses; label: 4.4.
title: Cripping Right-to-die Discourses: Rethinking Access to Assisted Suicide; label: 4.5.
title: Final Words; label: 5.
title: Queering, Transing, Cripping, and Maddening Assisted Suicide; label: 5.1.
title: Queercrip Model of (Assisted) Suicide; label: 5.2.
title: Suicide-affirmative Approach; label: 5.3.
title: Potential Objections to a Suicide-affirmative Approach; label: 5.4.
title: Thanatopolitics of Assisted Suicide as an Ethics of Living; label: 5.5.
title: Final Words; title: Conclusion: Can the Suicidal Subject Speak? Suicidal People's Voices as MicroResistance