04472nam 2201069 450 991081541490332120230126212226.00-520-95764-410.1525/9780520957640(CKB)2670000000529040(EBL)1639079(SSID)ssj0001130882(PQKBManifestationID)11749914(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001130882(PQKBWorkID)11110903(PQKB)10235687(StDuBDS)EDZ0000229854(MiAaPQ)EBC1639079(OCoLC)871257560(MdBmJHUP)muse32360(DE-B1597)519805(DE-B1597)9780520957640(Au-PeEL)EBL1639079(CaPaEBR)ebr10841534(CaONFJC)MIL577587(EXLCZ)99267000000052904020140314h20142014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrIn pursuit of the good life aspiration and suicide in globalizing South India /Jocelyn Lim ChuaBerkeley, California :University of California Press,2014.©20141 online resource (255 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-28116-0 0-520-28115-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Note --Introduction --1. Between the Devil and the Deep Sea --2. Gazing at the Stars, Aiming for the Treetops --3. Tales the Dead Are Made to Tell --4. Care-full Acts --5. Anywhere but Here --6. Fit for the Future --Afterword --Notes --References --IndexOnce 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.SuicideSocial aspectsIndiaKeralaEast IndiansIndiaKeralaPsychologyEast IndiansIndiaKeralaSocial conditionsKerala (India)Social conditions21st centuryKerala (India)Economic conditions21st centuryanthropologists.asia scholars.asian studies.critical theory.cultural anthropology.ethnographers.ethnography.everyday life.fieldwork.global change.globalization.high suicide rates.historical struggles.human condition.kerala.life and death.modern history.modern india.modernization.nonfiction.postcolonial world.psychology.retrospective.social anxiety.social aspirations.social change.social development.social historians.social history.south india.suicide.tragic.SuicideSocial aspectsEast IndiansPsychology.East IndiansSocial conditions.362.280954/83SOC002010SOC002000bisacshChua Jocelyn Lim1671395MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815414903321In pursuit of the good life4033917UNINA