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Dying Without Killing: Self‐Immolations, 1963–2002
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This chapter provides an overview of self-immolation in the last four decades, from an original database of over 500 individual acts. It is divided into five main sections. The first sketches the history of self-immolation. The second examines the prevalence of self-immolation among causes, across countries, and over time. The third section focuses on the orchestration of the individual action. The fourth section tackles the central question — why? — by elucidating the various motivations for self-immolation. The final section considers the effects of the action.
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“…collective action, such as via strikes, or with more solitary tactics, like self-immolation, has been documented by scholars in a variety of fi elds studying plu-ralism, political communication, and social movements (cf., Biggs 2005; Gamson 1975; Luders 2010; Scott 2008; Stephan and Chenoweth 2008).”
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- Authors
- Biggs, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Biggs, Michael
- ORCID
- Biggs, Michael
- Venue
- Making Sense of Suicide Missions
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2005-03-17
- Pages
- 173-208
- OpenAlex
- W40231878
- Semantic Scholar
- eda8c129157a0bdd0b4b2f463fa2fc3d7acd0bbb
- Cited by
- 93
- References
- 76
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 7 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 5.12
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Harvard University
- Central Washington University
- University of Cambridge
- Economic and Social Research Council
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Keywords
- self-immolation, suicide, nonviolent resistance, political violence
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