In Pursuit of the Good Life Aspiration and Suicide in Globalizing South India

Name: In Pursuit of the Good Life Aspiration and Suicide in Globalizing South India
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ISBN: 9780520281165

ISBN-10: 0520281160

ISBN-13: 9780520281165

Edition: 2014

Authors: Jocelyn Lim Chua

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Once celebrated as a model development for its progressive social indicators, the southern Indian state of Kerala has earned the new distinction as the nation’s suicide capital, with suicide rates soaring to triple the national average since 1990. Rather than an aberration on the path to development and modernity, Keralites understand this crisis to be the bitter fruit borne of these historical struggles and the aspirational dilemmas they have produced in everyday life. Suicide, therefore, offers a powerful lens onto the experiential and affective dimensions of development and global change in the postcolonial world.In the long shadow of fear and uncertainty that suicide casts in Kerala,…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/8/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English