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Title
Variations in the Effectiveness of Politically Motivated Suicide: Exploring Symbolism and Group Access
Description
Although politically motivated suicides have spawned some of the largest and most impactful protest movements in recent memory, there remains a lack of research on similarities between events. Previously, each famous suicide has been taken to be a random phenomenon, which cannot be replicated. This paper serves to demystify the concept of politically motivated suicides, and to draw connections between events; this research is undertaken with the acknowledgement that these world shaping events are rarely the first politically motivated suicides in their time. Two main factors combine to spell success for these events. The presence of symbolic and powerful images, and messages from the death of an actor, combined with a social group which is able to harness and direct those images, determines the potential for a politically motivated suicide to escalate issues to a national scale. In this paper I connect litterature on the individual action of politically motivated suicide with the collective action field, and through a series of case studies investigate the importance of the action of suicide, and how social groups utilize the death of the actor. This change in thought reflects the concept that specific factors, not chance, combine to determine the outcome of these potentially nation changing events.
Date Created
2020
Contributors
- Fassbender, Eric Robert (Author)
- Wright, Thorin (Thesis advisor)
- Kirkpatrick, Jennet (Committee member)
- Bates, Denise (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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Resource Type
Extent
88 pages
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
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Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.57174
Level of coding
minimal
Note
Masters Thesis Political Science 2020
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- 2020-06-01 08:18:22
System Modified
- 2021-08-26 09:47:01
- 3 years 2 months ago
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