In Pursuit of the Good Life
Chua, Jocelyn Lim "In this absorbing and moving ethnography of aspiration and the deaths in its midst, Jocelyn Chua takes on the deeply contextual yet starkly human question of what makes life livable. Offering careful insight into what suicide can tell us about the precariousness and disenchantment of modern life, she unpacks the ways suicide undermines, even as it authorizes, triumphal narratives of development. In the process, her deft and incisive account ...