This is a great discussion....
I am reminded of my African History classes at undergrad... David Lan's Guns and Rain and Zakes Mda's The heart of redness come to mind. Would Ancestor inspired colonial resistance and death and on the word of a young girl - the mass slaughter of cattle (The God with the Wet Nose) sound pretty convincing as suicide...
Thanks Prof GE for prodding us on to think beyond the simple English...
Maybe the conference needs to gravitate south?
Alinah
On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <emeagwali@ccsu.edu> wrote:
Nice point. So the research questions include the following:
Are the suicidal assassinations and terroristic suicides of the Japanese Kamikaze and
ISIL/al-Shabab/Al-Qaida groups, identical in methodology, inspiration and
impact? How do they differ and why? Since the kamikaze had the backing of the
Japanese state of the day should the word terror be applicable to that phenomenon?
The Kamikaze pilots seemed to be inspired or motivated by Shinto -
and not Islam, two completely different religious systems. One is a monotheistic
theological system similar to some extent to its predecessors and progenitors, Christianity and Judaism,
with their network of prophets, angels and holy texts. They all claim to be religions of peace
but have all been implicated in warfare and bloodshed in different periods of their history.
The three religions consider themselves to be the Chosen religion. One claims to have seen the
face of God and associated divinities and proceeds to represent them in a certain image.
The other two seem to be less audacious.
Shinto is polytheistic and polymorphic -probably the closest religious counterpart to
African Indigenous Religious Theology to some extent- but with close ties to the imperial
family of the era. It is also closely implicated in organized pillage and mayhem.
GE
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Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 4:25 PM--Prof., do you think the 'Kamikaze' would agree with you about the conceptual 'newness'?
kamikaze |ˌkamɪˈkɑːzi| noun(in the Second World War) a Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target.• the pilot of a kamikaze aircraft.adjective [ attrib. ] relating to or denoting a kamikaze attack or pilot. a kamikaze attack.• reckless or potentially self-destructive: he made a kamikaze run across three lanes of traffic.ORIGIN Japanese, from kami 'divinity' + kaze 'wind', originally referring to the gale that, in Japanese tradition, destroyed the fleet of invading Mongols in 1281.
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True.
These seem to be interesting aspects of suicide that are well within the reach ofscholarly research on suicide. We have to refine and create new conceptual categories to identifyand discuss the phenomenon since this form of suicide- suicidal terrorism, terroristic suicide orsuicide bombing- is one of humanity's greatest contemporary challenges.
Thanks for your comment.
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: CFP: SuicideInteresting you say that.
Suicide bombers are considered terrorists because they kill self to destroy others. Then there is the suicide that entails killing others before killing self and I do not know if that has been categorized.O.On Jan 14, 2016 11:29 AM, "Emeagwali, Gloria (History)" <emeagwali@ccsu.edu> wrote:--
--I notice that there is no mention of suicide bombers.If I were organizing this conference this will be an important aspect of the agenda.But I am not.
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Suicide
2nd Global Meeting
Call for Participation 2016
Monday 18th July - Wednesday 20th July 2016
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
This is a Call for Papers for a conference bringing together international
discussion of suicide and attempted suicide. Over one million people
worldwide die from the deliberate ending of their own lives each year.
Attempted suicide is beset by definitional problems, but we can broadly
describe it as a serious attempt to end one's own life. Suicide can be an
ambiguous act, a cry for help that goes too far, or an ambivalent intention
that fails to perceive the consequences for family, friends or community.
Assisted suicide is a contentious aspect, both in current medical practice,
and in society at large. Historically, suicide has been a vehicle for
distinctive political or religious statements. Durkheim's four categories -
egoistic, altruistic, anomic and fatalistic - are even more resonant today
than when he first formulated them.
Suicide has an associative but non-causal link with self-harm, and those
who deliberately self-harm have a risk of suicide some 100 times greater
than the general population. The UK is estimated to have one of the highest
rates of deliberate self-harm in Europe, at 400 per 100,000 population
(Self-poisoning and self-injury in adults, Clinical Medicine, 2002). It is
hard, however, to arrive at definitive rates since self-harm is often
practised secretly. Like suicide, it carries considerable stigma.
Gender, too, is a significant marker in the study of suicide, with the
incidence of completed suicide very much higher in males than females, for
all age groups and in most societies where recording occurs. In England and
Wales, for instance, the male rate is three times higher than the female
rate, and is the leading cause of death in the age group of males aged 20 -
34 years. A notable exception in the gender pattern is China where female
suicides equal or exceed male rates.
Risk factors highlighted in research into suicide have included poverty,
abuse, gender, age, masculinity, sexuality, mental illness, situational
trauma, substance misuse, homelessness, unemployment and other adverse life
events. Completed suicides leave in their wake a long-lasting trail of
guilt, shame and pain, and the stigma is expressed in widely varying ways
in different societies.
Societal responses to suicide have ranged widely across the spectrum, from
encouragement or acceptance to outright criminalisation of the act. Suicide
and attempting suicide have historically been considered crimes in many
societies, and in England and Wales, for example, suicide itself was
decriminalised as recently as 1961. Assisting suicide, however, remains a
crime. There is pressure to change the law following some test cases, so as
to permit assisted dying. This presents modern medicine, law and ethics
with particular complexities since it runs counter to several core
principles in those bodies of knowledge and practice. The stigma attaching
to suicide can be traced historically to prevailing religious doctrines,
and yet some cultures and sub-cultures have advocated suicide. Currently
there are on-line sites that encourage or facilitate it.
There is a wide range of counselling and other therapeutic interventions
and treatments associated with suicidal and self-harming states of mind,
and these therapeutic approaches are also used to help deal with the
painful aftermath of a completed suicide. Art and music therapies have been
used to help sufferers deal with suicidal states of mind. Suicide and
self-destruction are highly expressive aspects of the human condition, and,
as such, have been fertile grounds in literature and art, producing a rich
and poignant body of creative work.
Papers on suicide, attempted suicide, suicide and self-harm, and assisted
suicide that begin from the following initial points of departure are
welcome, as well as those who have an innovative approach unrelated to the
following areas:
• Patterns, correlations, causes, relationship with self-harm, associated
risk factors, institutional settings, relationship with political or
religious ideology, personal and societal trajectories, prevention and
therapeutic interventions, settings, histories and anthropologies, familial
and social consequences, victims, professional responses, literary
instances, and associations with creativity
• Links with drug addiction, with political activism, with religion
conviction and ideas of sacrifice and redemption
• Themes in storytelling, in film and in theatre
• Philosophical links with ethics and theories of the self
Further details and information can be found on the conference website:
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It will be of interest to those from medicine, law, ethics, psychiatry,
nursing, social work, counselling, all caring professions, psychotherapy,
philosophy, anthropology, psychology, sociology, criminology, political
theory, history, cultural studies, history, creative writing,
autobiography, biography, music, art, literature and lay people with a
personal interest in the subject.
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The Suicide project will be meeting at the same time as a project on
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