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- Title
Suicide at a distance.
- Authors
Balayannis, Angeliki; Cook, Brian Robert
- Abstract
Knowledge of suicide is made through violent epistemologies that sever self-destruction from space, time, and place. As an inherently incomprehensible issue, efforts to make sense of suicide through abstraction have the paradoxical effect of inhibiting understanding. This paper argues that the incoherences characteristic of suicide are not an obstacle for knowing, but rather a cause to accept knowledge that is partial and indirect. Thinking with assemblage, this paper develops a relational conceptualization of distance to interrogate the knowledge that shapes pesticide suicide in India; ‘distancing-through-engagement’ brings to light the contradictions and obscured power relations through which understandings of suicide are made.
- Subjects
SUICIDE; SELF-destructive behavior; THEORY of knowledge; PARADOX; COMPREHENSION
- Publication
Progress in Human Geography, 2016, Vol 40, Issue 4, p530
- ISSN
0309-1325
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0309132515587469