TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - The twice-killed: Imagining protest suicide
JO  - American anthropologist
A1  - Andriolo, K.
SP  - 100
EP  - 113
VL  - 108
IS  - 1
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0002-7294
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/aa.2006.108.1.100
ID  - ref1
ER  -