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TY  - BOOK
ID  - 78072411
TI  - In pursuit of the good life
PY  - 2014
SN  - 0520957644 9780520957640 130646336X 9781306463362 0520281160 9780520281165 0520281152 9780520281158 9780520281158 9780520281165
PB  - Berkeley
DB  - UniCat
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
KW  - East Indians
KW  - Suicide
KW  - Asian Indians
KW  - Indians, East
KW  - Indians (India)
KW  - Indic peoples
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Killing oneself
KW  - Self-killing
KW  - Death
KW  - Right to die
KW  - Social conditions.
KW  - Psychology.
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Causes
KW  - Kerala (India)
KW  - Kerala, India (State)
KW  - Malankar (India)
KW  - Malankara (India)
KW  - Keralam (India)
KW  - Kīrālā (India)
KW  - Travancore and Cochin (India)
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - anthropologists.
KW  - asia scholars.
KW  - asian studies.
KW  - critical theory.
KW  - cultural anthropology.
KW  - ethnographers.
KW  - ethnography.
KW  - everyday life.
KW  - fieldwork.
KW  - global change.
KW  - globalization.
KW  - high suicide rates.
KW  - historical struggles.
KW  - human condition.
KW  - kerala.
KW  - life and death.
KW  - modern history.
KW  - modern india.
KW  - modernization.
KW  - nonfiction.
KW  - postcolonial world.
KW  - psychology.
KW  - retrospective.
KW  - social anxiety.
KW  - social aspirations.
KW  - social change.
KW  - social development.
KW  - social historians.
KW  - social history.
KW  - south india.
KW  - suicide.
KW  - tragic.
UR  - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78072411
AB  - 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, living acquires new meaning and contours.  In this powerful ethnography, Jocelyn Chua draws on years of fieldwork to broaden the field of vision beyond suicide as the termination of life, considering how suicide generates new ways of living in these anxious times.
ER  -