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A Study of Poverty And Shame Related Suicides In Kerala, India
Kerala, a small princely state in south of India is renowned for its social achievements like high literacy rate and better quality of life as well as health achievements such as high life expectancy and high health awareness. Despite of this, it is ranked very high among Indian states having high r...
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Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences
2013
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| 100 | |a Sherin Vellara Francis |9 23178 | ||
| 245 | |a A Study of Poverty And Shame Related Suicides In Kerala, India | ||
| 260 | |b Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences |c 2013 | ||
| 500 | |a Thesis submitted for the Master Degree in International Social Welfare and Health Policy | ||
| 520 | |a Kerala, a small princely state in south of India is renowned for its social achievements like high literacy rate and better quality of life as well as health achievements such as high life expectancy and high health awareness. Despite of this, it is ranked very high among Indian states having high rates of suicide. This thesis aims to explore the relation of suicides in Kerala to factors of shame and poverty.In this thesis, I have tried to show the potential relevance of shame in motivating suicide by studying the reported reasons for suicides from National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) records. Unsurprisingly, all underlying reasons of suicides as reported in the NCRB records could be linked to potential shaming events, which the victim had escaped/tried to escape by committing suicide. It has been postulated using a shame-model-of-suicide that in almost all cases of suicides, the victims are shameful and secretive which turns them away from being part of the society. It has been noted that the society has considerable responsibility in introduction of shame in individuals which means that the shame socially constructed and so all suicides. When the inner understanding regarding what is expected of oneself is conflicted shame is induced. Individuals whose self-integrity has been compromised due to shame are vulnerable victims of suicide. It has been also theorized that the individual’s upbringing from childhood and the values fed to him from the society/parents also play a great role in the individual’s internal perception on what is expected of him. Using the shame-model-of-suicides, an attempt has been made to define interventions for suicide prevention. The shame model alienates conventional suicide prevention interventions such as counselling and suicide helplines as it is theorized that the individual wants “not to be seen” and to “disappear”. Restrictions to exposure mechanisms of shaming events such as restriction to media in reporting “particularly shaming” incidents are also proposed. Even though the study had its focus on Kerala, the findings could very well be relevant for Indian community as a whole due to similarities in social structure within Indian states (or to some extend all south Asian Countries). This thesis is limited in timeframe as well as scope, but a proposal for further studies using more elaborate data from more detailed sources such as suicide notes, survivor testimonies as well as reported reasons from suicide helplines. | ||
| 650 | |a HUMILIATION; |a EMBARRASSMENT SUICIDE |9 23179 | ||
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