Making sense of critical suicide studies: Metaphors, tensions, and futurities

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dc.contributor.authorCesar Riani Costa, Luiza
dc.contributor.authorWhite, Jennifer
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-10T17:23:11Z
dc.date.available2024-10-10T17:23:11Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractCritical suicide studies is a relatively new area of research, practice, and activism, which we believe can offer creative new vantage points with which to ‘think’ suicide into the future. We present findings from a qualitative research study undertaken to understand how critical suicide studies is being conceptualized by those who draw from this orientation. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine scholars, practitioners, activists, and/or those with lived and living experience of suicidality. To analyze the data, we used reflexive thematic analysis and drew on a social constructionist orientation. We discovered that metaphors were an important way of conceptualizing and reflecting upon critical suicide studies. Four themes were generated: critical suicide studies is a site of respite and fortification; critical suicide studies is a felt experience; critical suicide studies is a desire line; critical suicide studies is yearning. We contend that the dominant language available to describe suicide and suicide prevention might not be adequate for expressing the complexities and contradictions of suicide prevention practice or suicide’s ultimate unknowability. We call for more diverse, inclusive, and expansive frameworks for understanding and responding to suicide and show the potential of joining other critical scholars and social movements to build a more just, caring, and inclusive world.
dc.description.reviewstatusReviewed
dc.description.scholarlevelFaculty
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation, grant number 20/16014-4.
dc.identifier.citationCesar Riani Costa, L., & White, J. (2024). Making sense of critical suicide studies: Metaphors, tensions, and futurities. Social Sciences, 13(4), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13040183
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13040183
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/20545
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSocial Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution CC BY
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectcritical pedagogy
dc.subjectcritical qualitative research
dc.subjectcritical suicide studies
dc.subjectmetaphors
dc.subjectreflexive thematic analysis
dc.subjectsuicidology
dc.titleMaking sense of critical suicide studies: Metaphors, tensions, and futurities
dc.typeArticle

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