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|Author(s)=Dušan I. Bjelic
 
|Author(s)=Dušan I. Bjelic
 
|Title=Suicide as a Deed of Optionless Intimacy
 
|Title=Suicide as a Deed of Optionless Intimacy
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Ethnomethodology; Suicide; Symbolic interactionism;  
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|Tag(s)=EMCA; Ethnomethodology; Suicide; Public Space; Press Conferences;  
 
|Key=Bjelic1990
 
|Key=Bjelic1990
 
|Year=1990
 
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|Number=2
 
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|Pages=161-183
 
|Pages=161-183
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|Abstract=This article  offers  an  ethnomethodological  analysis of  suicide practices  in  situ. By  analyzing a videotaped  record of  a public  suicide by  a government official  this article  is able to examine the temporal  relations  between  the  unfolding  suicide  act  and  the  situational  contingencies  arising from  its interactional  context. In  the case examined, the  suicide was planned  as a ceremony,  in part to indicate the official facing corruption charges. A press conference provided the pretext for the  suicide ceremony  in which  the  official  intended  to deliver a prepared  speech  to accuse his accusers  and  bid  farewell  to  loved  ones before  shooting  himself.  Things turned out differently
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than  he  planned,  though  he  did  in  the  end  shoot  himself.  The  analysis  focuses  on  how  the audience’s reaction to the imminent suicide foreclosed the suicide ceremony while at the same time pre-emptying  the pre-suicide  speech deferring  the  impending  suicide.
 
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Bjelic1990
BibType ARTICLE
Key Bjelic1990
Author(s) Dušan I. Bjelic
Title Suicide as a Deed of Optionless Intimacy
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Tag(s) EMCA, Ethnomethodology, Suicide, Public Space, Press Conferences
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Year 1990
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Journal Symbolic Interaction
Volume 13
Number 2
Pages 161-183
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Abstract

This article offers an ethnomethodological analysis of suicide practices in situ. By analyzing a videotaped record of a public suicide by a government official this article is able to examine the temporal relations between the unfolding suicide act and the situational contingencies arising from its interactional context. In the case examined, the suicide was planned as a ceremony, in part to indicate the official facing corruption charges. A press conference provided the pretext for the suicide ceremony in which the official intended to deliver a prepared speech to accuse his accusers and bid farewell to loved ones before shooting himself. Things turned out differently than he planned, though he did in the end shoot himself. The analysis focuses on how the audience’s reaction to the imminent suicide foreclosed the suicide ceremony while at the same time pre-emptying the pre-suicide speech deferring the impending suicide.

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