Familles et communautés face aux « grappes localisées » de suicides de jeunes : deux exemples en populations québécoise et autochtone

Based on interviews carried out in two Québec communities, including one First Nations community, affected by local clusters of youth suicide, this article examines the representations and repercussions of these events. Merely objectifying a series of suicides in a given time and place is not suffic...

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Main Author: Guillaume Grandazzi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre Urbanisation Culture Société (UCS) de l'INRS 2016-08-01
Series:Enfances, Familles, Générations
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/efg/1028
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description Based on interviews carried out in two Québec communities, including one First Nations community, affected by local clusters of youth suicide, this article examines the representations and repercussions of these events. Merely objectifying a series of suicides in a given time and place is not sufficient to describe the phenomenon, which also concerns a reality that is both physical and social and which is subject to a process of social construction. This may or may not contribute to transforming several individual and family tragedies into a broader issue that concerns and involves the entire community that has been affected. Beyond the suicides’ proximity in place and time, it is the fact that the phenomenon affects adolescents and young adults, sometimes in significant proportions, that deeply troubles these communities and forces adults to question why a portion of its youth, though the act of suicide, manifests a vulnerability so great that it shakes the foundations of social life and intergenerational transmission.
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spelling doaj.art-a058fa6b7e67452d81d0a989765afe1f2022-12-21T20:48:25ZengCentre Urbanisation Culture Société (UCS) de l'INRSEnfances, Familles, Générations1708-63102016-08-0124Familles et communautés face aux « grappes localisées » de suicides de jeunes : deux exemples en populations québécoise et autochtoneGuillaume GrandazziBased on interviews carried out in two Québec communities, including one First Nations community, affected by local clusters of youth suicide, this article examines the representations and repercussions of these events. Merely objectifying a series of suicides in a given time and place is not sufficient to describe the phenomenon, which also concerns a reality that is both physical and social and which is subject to a process of social construction. This may or may not contribute to transforming several individual and family tragedies into a broader issue that concerns and involves the entire community that has been affected. Beyond the suicides’ proximity in place and time, it is the fact that the phenomenon affects adolescents and young adults, sometimes in significant proportions, that deeply troubles these communities and forces adults to question why a portion of its youth, though the act of suicide, manifests a vulnerability so great that it shakes the foundations of social life and intergenerational transmission.http://journals.openedition.org/efg/1028suicidesuicide clustersocial representationsidentityresiliencequalitative approach
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Familles et communautés face aux « grappes localisées » de suicides de jeunes : deux exemples en populations québécoise et autochtone
Enfances, Familles, Générations
suicide
suicide cluster
social representations
identity
resilience
qualitative approach
title Familles et communautés face aux « grappes localisées » de suicides de jeunes : deux exemples en populations québécoise et autochtone
title_full Familles et communautés face aux « grappes localisées » de suicides de jeunes : deux exemples en populations québécoise et autochtone
title_fullStr Familles et communautés face aux « grappes localisées » de suicides de jeunes : deux exemples en populations québécoise et autochtone
title_full_unstemmed Familles et communautés face aux « grappes localisées » de suicides de jeunes : deux exemples en populations québécoise et autochtone
title_short Familles et communautés face aux « grappes localisées » de suicides de jeunes : deux exemples en populations québécoise et autochtone
title_sort familles et communautes face aux grappes localisees de suicides de jeunes deux exemples en populations quebecoise et autochtone
topic suicide
suicide cluster
social representations
identity
resilience
qualitative approach
url http://journals.openedition.org/efg/1028
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