Reframing Suicide: The Development of Critical Suicide Studies

This book focuses on understanding and researching suicide and suicide prevention from historical, political, cultural, social, and philosophical perspectives, all of which are located in particular contexts of research and practice. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Social Epistemology.

Katrina Jaworski is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of South Australia. She researches the agency of suicide, with a focus on gender, sexuality, youth, ethics and poetry. Her publications include numerous academic articles and book chapters, and books such as The Gender of Suicide (2016).

Ian Marsh is Reader and Suicide-Safer Universities project lead at Canterbury Christ Church University. His publications include Suicide: Foucault, History and Truth (2010), and he co-edited Critical Suicidology: Toward Creative Alternatives (2016) and Suicide and Social Justice: New Perspectives on the Politics of Suicide and Suicide Prevention (2020).