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01480cam a2200169 i 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| ISBN |
9780520281165 (paper) |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
362.280 954 83 |
| Item number |
LOC/I |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME |
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| Personal name |
Jocelyn Lim Chua |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
In pursuit of the good life: |
| Sub Title |
aspiration and suicide in globalizing South India/ |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
by Jocelyn Lim Chua |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication |
California: |
| Name of publisher |
University of California Press, |
| Year of publication |
2014. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Number of Pages |
xiii, 240 pages ; |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"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. "-- |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Suicide India |
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| Topical Term |
Social Problems |
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| Topical Term |
Social Sciences |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Book |