Suicide in a central Indian steel town
Suicide in a central Indian steel town
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印度中部钢铁小镇自杀
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2012
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J. Parry
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J. Parry
在过去的15年里，“农民自杀”引起了公众的严重关注;最近有人声称，恰蒂斯加尔是该国发生率最高的地区。这篇文章表明，这种情况下的主要公共政策问题的代表性与自我造成的死亡是政治上的扭曲，有很好的理由假设，至少在某些口袋里，城市自杀率是一样高，如果不是更高。在钢铁之城比莱（Bhilai）周围的工业区，这一比例在过去20年中急剧上升，而最容易受到影响的是公共部门劳动力的贵族阶层。这最终要归因于经济的自由化和随之而来的劳动力的缩减，这导致了阶级地位再生产的危机。这些工人享有特权;他们认为自己不同于非正规部门的“劳工阶级”，害怕陷入其中。自杀事件被严重低估，官方统计数据被对警察和法律的恐惧系统地扭曲，这鼓励了隐瞒和故意混淆可能的动机，几乎可以肯定地增加了自杀企图的“致命概率”。
Over the past 15 years ‘farmer suicides’ have occasioned grave public concern; and it has recently been claimed that Chhattisgarh has the highest incidence in the country. This article suggests that the representation of such cases as the major public policy problem to do with self-inflicted death is politically inflected and that there are good grounds for supposing that—at least in certain pockets—the urban suicide rate is as high, if not higher. In the industrial area around steel town of Bhilai, this has risen dramatically over the last 20 years and it is the aristocracy of public sector labour that is significantly most susceptible. This is ultimately attributable to the liberalisation of the economy and the consequent downsizing of this workforce, which has led to a crisis in the reproduction of class status. Such workers are privileged; think of themselves as different from the informal sector ‘labour class’ and fear sinking into it. Suicides are significantly under-reported and the official statistics are systematically inflected by fear of the police and the law, which encourage both concealment and the deliberate obfuscation of likely motives, and almost certainly increase the ‘lethal probabilities’ of suicide attempts.