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| Title |
Being Through Doing: The Self-Immolation of an Asylum Seeker in Switzerland
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychiatry, April 2018
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00110 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Gail Womersley, Laure Kloetzer |
| Abstract |
In April 2016, Armin, an asylum seeker in a village of Switzerland, set himself alight in the public square of the town, one of a few cases reported across Europe. He performed the act following a denied request for asylum and was saved by bystanders. We present the results of two qualitative interviews conducted with Armin, his translator and his roommate following the incident. The act is theorized through the lens of a dialogical analysis focusing on the concept of social recognition. The notion of trauma is considered as a key mediating mechanism, theorized as creating ruptures in time, memory, language, and social connections to an Other. We conclude this communicative act to represent both "being-toward-death" and a relational striving toward life; a "destruction as the cause of coming into being." |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 29% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 14% |
| Spain | 1 | 14% |
| Australia | 1 | 14% |
| Unknown | 2 | 29% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 7 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 22 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 22 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 3 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 14% |
| Librarian | 1 | 5% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 1 | 5% |
| Other | 2 | 9% |
| Unknown | 9 | 41% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 3 | 14% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 14% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 2 | 9% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1 | 5% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 1 | 5% |
| Other | 2 | 9% |
| Unknown | 10 | 45% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 May 2018.
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#6,499,267
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#2,862
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#115,046
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#91
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