@article{ref1,
title="The twice-killed: Imagining protest suicide",
journal="American anthropologist",
year="2006",
author="Andriolo, K.",
volume="108",
number="1",
pages="100-113",
abstract="The inspiration I take from J. M. Coetzee's book Elizabeth Costello (2003) is his advocacy of imagining as an alternative to rational thought. Imagining, as I understand him, is mindwork that engages the body as an experiential and metaphorical site. I apply this notion of imagining to suicides conducted in the service of political protest: The fatal hunger strike of ten prisoners in Northern Ireland in 1981 and Jan Palach's self-immolation in Prague in 1969. Three questions direct the exploration of their trajectories: What feeds the hope for the effectiveness of protest suicides? How do they use the body as a performance site? Do such suicides call for an ethics of attentiveness? © 2006 by the American Anthropological Association. All rights reserved.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0002-7294",
doi="10.1525/aa.2006.108.1.100",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/aa.2006.108.1.100"
}