ABSTRACT This special issue of Social Epistemology represents a departure point from the traditional field of suicidology. Unlike its predecessor, critical suicidology, or more recently, critical suicide studies, consider the scientific framework of research too narrow and argue against universalizing assumptions and applications of ideas about suicide, which often centre on Western notions of psychopathology, and individualist accounts of suicidal agency and subjectivity. Instead, critical suicidology advocates for researching suicide and suicide prevention from a contextualist, historical, subjective, political, cultural, linguistic and social perspectives. Arguably, critical suicidology has been in the making since the 1980s, as a handful of researchers persistently raised concerns about the way suicidology generated knowledge about suicide and suicide prevention. Perhaps then it is not surprising that critical suicidology, as an intellectual movement, came together in March 2016 at its very first conference, “Suicidology’s Cultural Turn and Beyond”. Articles in this issue have been developed from some of the papers presented at the conference. They represent a series of epistemological interventions into the way suicide and suicide prevention have been understood in different contexts, be it in relation to history, theory, knowledge production, ethics and the way suicide is represented publicly and personally.

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知识是为切割而生的——简介

摘要 本期社会认识论特刊代表了传统自杀学领域的一个出发点。与其前身批判性自杀学或最近的批判性自杀研究不同，认为研究的科学框架过于狭窄，并反对普遍化的假设和自杀观念的应用，这些假设和应用通常以西方的精神病理学概念为中心，以及对自杀行为的个人主义解释和主观性。相反，批判自杀学主张从情境主义、历史、主观、政治、文化、语言和社会的角度研究自杀和自杀预防。可以说，批判性自杀学自 1980 年代以来一直在形成，因为少数研究人员一直对自杀学产生有关自杀和自杀预防的知识的方式表示担忧。那么，作为一种知识运动的批判性自杀学于 2016 年 3 月在其第一次会议“自杀学的文化转向及超越”上聚集在一起也就不足为奇了。本期文章是从会议上发表的一些论文中发展而来的。它们代表了对不同背景下对自杀和自杀预防的理解方式的一系列认识论干预，无论是与历史、理论、知识生产、伦理以及公开和个人代表自杀的方式有关。2016 年 3 月，他们在第一次会议“自杀学的文化转向和超越”上聚在一起。本期文章是根据会议上发表的一些论文编写的。它们代表了对不同背景下对自杀和自杀预防的理解方式的一系列认识论干预，无论是与历史、理论、知识生产、伦理以及公开和个人代表自杀的方式有关。2016 年 3 月，他们在第一次会议“自杀学的文化转向和超越”上聚在一起。本期文章是从会议上发表的一些论文中发展而来的。它们代表了对不同背景下对自杀和自杀预防的理解方式的一系列认识论干预，无论是与历史、理论、知识生产、伦理以及公开和个人代表自杀的方式有关。