CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Miribayeva, Gulnara |
|---|---|
| Title | VICTIMS OR PERPETRATORS Social Media Users Perception of Maternal Filicide-Suicide in Kazakhstan |
| Summary | In November 2021 people in Kazakhstan were shocked by the breaking news that a 28-year old woman in Almaty jumped from a high-rise building with her 3 young children. A month prior to this, a similar case was prevented in Nur-Sultan: a 21-year old woman in Nur-Sultan with an infant in her hands was about to jump from a balcony. The cases of maternal filicide-suicide (the intentional killing of a child or infant by mother who dies by suicide afterwards) are rare, very disturbing and cause a very heated response from the public. By analyzing the comments section under posts about these two cases of (attempted and completed) filicide-suicide on several media platforms, this study aims to understand the way these cases are perceived by the audiences. It demonstrates that people tend to have polarizing opinions regarding the issues of mental health; religious concepts; traditional gender roles; as well as the role of financial hardships in their discussion of suicide. While the attitudes range from sympathetic to hateful, the audiences seem to have a general consensus on the impact of structural political and social difficulties, such as authoritarian government regime, rampant corruption, and poverty as contributing forces driving people to despair and suicide |
| Supervisor | Alexandra Kowalski, Vlad Naumescu |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/miribayeva_gulnara.pdf |
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