Critical Suicide Studies Papers and Essays

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• Akotia, C.S., Knizek, B.L., Hjelmeland, H., Kinyanda, E., Osafo, J. (2019). Reasons for attempting suicide: An exploratory study in Ghana. Transcultural Psychiatry, 56(1), 233-249.
• Andoh-Arthur, J., Knizek, B.L., Osafo, J., & Hjelmeland, H. (2018). Suicide among men in Ghana: The burden of masculinity. Death Studies, 42(10), 658-666. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07481187.2018.1426655
• Andoh-Arthur, J., Hjelmeland, H., Osafo, J., & Knizek, B.L. (2018). Walking the tightrope: reflections on police gatekeeping roles in suicide research in Ghana. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 21(3), 289-301.
• Ansloos, J. (2018). Rethinking Indigenous Suicide. IJIH, 13(2),8-28.
• Ansloos, J., & Peltier, S. (2022). A question of justice: Critically researching suicide with Indigenous studies of affect, biosociality, and land-based relations. Health, 26(1), 100–119.
• Ansloos, J. P., & White, J. H. (2025). Critical Suicide Notes: On Witnessing and Prefigurative Politics. Social Sciences, 14(3), 140. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci14030140
• Baril, A. (2017). The Somatechnologies of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying Law: LGBTQ discourses on suicide and the injunction to live. Somatechnics, 7(2), 201-217.
• Baril, A. (2018). Les personnes suicidaires peuvent-elles parler? Théoriser l’oppression suicidiste à partir d’un modèle socio-subjectif du handicap (Can the Suicidal Speak? Theorizing suicidist oppression through a socio-subjective model of disability). Criminologie, 51(2), 189-212.
• Baril, A. (2020). ‘Fix society. Please.’ Suicidalité trans et modèles d’interprétation du suicide : repenser le suicide à partir des voix des personnes suicidaires (‘Fix Society. Please.’ Trans suicidality and models for understanding suicide: Rethinking suicide through the voices of suicidal people). Revue Frontières, 31(2).
• Baril, A. (2020). Queeriser le geste suicidaire : penser le suicide avec Nelly Arcan (Queering the Act of Suicide: Thinking about suicide with Nelly Arcan). In I. Boisclair, G.P. Girard, and P.-L. Landry (Eds.), QuébeQueer: Le queer dans les productions littéraires, artistiques et médiatiques québécoises (pp. 325-341), Montréal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal.
• Baril, A. (2020). Suicidism: A new theoretical framework to conceptualize suicide from an antioppressive perspective. DSQ: Disability Studies Quarterly, 40(3), Online.
• Baril, A. (2022). Theorizing the Intersections of Ableism, Sanism, Ageism and Suicidism in Suicide and Physician-Assisted Death Debates. In J.M. Reynolds and C. Wieseler (Eds.), The Disability Bioethics Reader (pp. 221-231), New York: Routledge.
• Baril, A. (2024). Learning to ‘Live with’ Death: Developing a suicide-affirmative approach as an ethics of ‘living with’ suicidal people. In D. Hétu, L. García Zarranz, A, Fayant and M. Carrière (Eds.). Living and Learning with Feminist Ethics, Literature, and Art (pp. 63-81), Edmonton: University of Alberta Press.
• Baril, A. (2025). Suicide. In R. Cover and C. Newman (Eds.). Elgar Encyclopedia of Queer Studies (pp. 365-368), Cheltenham: Elgar Publishing.
• Broz, L. (2015) ‘I, Too, Have a Dream … About Suicidology.’ Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 4 (7): 27-31.
• Bromley, E. (2024). Uncertainty, Bewilderment Aversion, and the Problem of Physician Suicide. Current Anthropology, 65(2), 320–342. https://doi.org/10.1086/729432
• Brooke, J., Lenette, C., Wobcke, M., & Wells, M. (2025). Revaluing Indigenous models in suicidology: A brief narrative synthesis. Social Sciences 14(4), 229. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci14040229
• Cai, Z. Y., Canetto, S. S., Chang, Q., & Yip, P. S. F. (2022). Women’s suicide in low-, middle-, and high-income countries: Do laws discriminating against women matter? Social Science & Medicine, 282. doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114035
• Canetto, S. S. (1992-1993). She died for love and he for glory: Gender myths of suicidal behavior. Omega–Journal of Death and Dying, 26, 1-17.
• Canetto, S. S. (1997). Meanings of gender and suicidal behavior during adolescence. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 27, 339-351. Reprinted in German in Forum der Kinder-und Jugenpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie, (2004) 1, 79-96.
• Canetto, S. S. (2008). Women and suicidal behavior: A cultural analysis. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 78, 259-266.
• Canetto, S. S. (2015). Suicidal behavior among Muslim women: Patterns, pathways, meanings, and prevention. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 36, 447-458.
• Canetto, S. S. (2017). Suicide: Why are older men so vulnerable? Men and Masculinities, 20, 49-70.
• Canetto, S. S. (2019). If physician-assisted suicide is the modern woman’s last powerful choice, why are White women its leading advocates and main users? Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 50, 39-50.
• Canetto, S. S. (2021b). Language, culture, gender, and intersectionalities in suicide theory, research, and prevention: Challenges and changes. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 51, 1045-1054. doi.org:10.1111/sltb.12758
• Canetto, S. S., & McIntosh, J. L. (2022). A comparison of physician-assisted/Death-with-Dignity-Act death and suicide patterns in older adult women and men. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 30, 211-220.
• Canetto, S. S., & Sakinofsky, I. (1998). The gender paradox in suicide. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 28, 1-23.
• Canetto, S. S., *Pouradeli, S., Khan, M. M., & Rezaeian, M. (2022). Suicidal self-burning in women and men around the world: A cultural and gender analysis of patterns and explanations. In M. Pompili (Ed.), Suicide risk assessment and prevention (pp. 1-28). Springer.
• Canetto, S. S., *Entilli, L., *Cerbo, I., & Cipolletta, S. (2023). Suicide scripts in Italian newspapers: Women’s suicide as a symptom of their psychological problems and men’s suicide as a symptom of social problems. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 44, 398-405.
• Canetto, S. S., Menger-Ogle, A., & Subba, U. K. (2023). Studying scripts of women’s and men’s suicide in Nepal: Qualitative method development and findings. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(11):6032. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20116032
• Canetto, S. S. (2024). Suicide scripts of the Nacirema (aka American). In M. Schouler-Ocak & M. Khan (Eds.), Suicide across cultures (pp. 325-348). Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/med/9780198843405.003.0016
• Cassady, C.M. (2016). ‘Exploring and articulating a critical suicidology: Suicidology’s Cultural Turn and Beyond.’ Medicine Anthropology Theory, 26 July.
• Cato, J. E., & Canetto, S. S. (2003). Attitudes and beliefs about suicidal behavior when coming out is the precipitant of the suicidal behavior. Sex Roles, 49 (9/10), 497-505.
• Chen, Y.-Y., Cai, Z. Y., Chang, Q., Canetto, S. S., & Yip, P. S. F. (2021). Caregiving as suicide prevention: An ecological 20-country study of men’s family carework, unemployment, and suicide. Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology, 56, 2185-2198. doi.org/10.1007/s00127-021-02095-9
• Chen, Y.-Y., Fong, T. C. T., Yip, P. S. F., & Canetto, S. S. (2024). Female labor participation as suicide prevention? A population study in Taiwan. Archives of Suicide Research. DOI: 10.1080/13811118.2024.2337182.
• Chandler, A. (2019, in press). “Boys don’t cry? Critical phenomenology, self-harm and suicide.” The Sociological Review, pre-publication.
• Chandler, A. (2019, in press). “Socioeconomic inequalities of suicide: Sociological and psychological intersections.” European Journal of Social Theory. Online first.
• Chandler, A., et al. (2016). “General Practitioners’ Accounts of Patients Who Have Self-Harmed A Qualitative, Observational Study.” Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention 37: 42-50.
• Chandler, A., & Wright, S. (2023). Suicide as slow death: Towards a haunted sociology of suicide. The Sociological Review, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261231212764  
• Costa, L. C. R., & White, J. (2024). Making Sense of Critical Suicide Studies: Metaphors, Tensions, and Futurities. Social Sciences, 13(4), 183.
• Cover, R. (2011). The Chasm & the Abyss: Queer Theory and the Socialities of Queer Youth Suicide. Interalia: Journal of Queer Studies 6: 1-22.
• Cover, R. (2012). ‘Mediating Suicide: Print Journalism and the Categorisation of Queer Youth Suicide Discourses.’ Archives of Sexual Behavior 41(5): 1173–1183.
• Cover, R. (2013). Queer Youth Resilience—Critiquing the Discourse of Hope and Hopelessness in LGBT Suicide Representation. M-C: Journal of Media and Culture. 16(5).
• Cover, R. (2013). Conditions of Living: Queer Youth Suicide, Homonormative Tolerance and Relative Misery. Journal of LGBT Youth 10(4): 328-350.
• Cover, R. (2016). ‘Suicides of the Marginalised: Cultural Approaches to Suicide, Relationality and Mobility.’ Cultural Studies Review 22(2): 90-113.
• Cover, R. (2020). ‘Subjective Connectivity: Rethinking Loneliness, Isolation and Belonging in Discourses of Minority Youth Suicide.’ Social Epistemology 34(6): 566-576.
• Cover, R.(2021). ‘Gender and Sexual Diversity and Suicide on Australian Screens: Popular Culture, Representation and Health Pedagogies.’ The Journal of Popular Culture. 54(2): 365-387.
• Dey, T., & Chowdhury, D. (2024). “In Hopes of Becoming a Phoenix”: Application of Narrative Practices in Exploration of Preferred Identities of Youth Contemplating Suicide in North East India. Journal of Systemic Therapies, 43(1), 26-50.
• Doblytė, S. (2024). From Public Culture to Personal Worth: A Sociological Inquiry into the Cultural Roots of Suicide. Cultural Sociology, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/17499755241306271
• Espeland, K., Hjelmeland, H., Knizek, B.L. (2021). A call for change from impersonal risk assessment to a relational approach: professionals’ reflections on the national guidelines for suicide prevention in mental health care in Norway. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 16(1).
• Espeland K, Knizek BL, Hjelmeland H (2021) “Time to try something new” – Professionals’ experiences and reflections on suicide prevention in Norway. Crisis, 42(6), 434-440.
• Espeland, K., Knizek, B.L., & Hjelmeland, H. (2023). Lifesaving turning points: First-person accounts of recovery after suicide attempt(s). Death Studies, 47(5), 550-558.
• Fitzpatrick, S. J. (2014). Stories worth telling: Moral experiences of suicidal behavior. Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, 4(2), 147-160.
• Fitzpatrick, S. J. (2015). Scientism as a social response to the problem of suicide. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 12(4), 613-622.
• Fitzpatrick, S. J. (2016). Ethical and political implications of the turn to stories in suicide prevention. Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology, 23(3/4), 265-276.
• Fitzpatrick, S. J., Hooker, C., & Kerridge, I. H. (2015). Suicidology as a social practice. Social Epistemology, 29(3), 303-322.
• Fitzpatrick, S.J., & River, J. (2018). Beyond the medical model: Future directions for suicide intervention services. International Journal of Health Services, 48(1), 189-203.
• Hagen, J., Hjelmeland, H., Knizek, B.L. (2017). Connecting with suicidal patients in psychiatric wards: Therapist challenges. Death Studies, 41(6), 360-367.
• Hagen, J., Hjelmeland, H., Knizek, B.L. (2017). Relational principles in the care of suicidal inpatients: Experiences of therapists and mental health nurses. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 38(2), 99-106.
• Hagen, J., Knizek, B.L., & Hjelmeland, H. (2016). Mental health nurses’ experiences of caring for suicidal patients in psychiatric wards: An emotional endeavour. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 31, 31-37.
• Hagen, J., Knizek, B.L., Hjelmeland, H. (2018). Former suicidal inpatients’ experience of care in psychiatric wards in Norway. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Health and Well-being.
• Hagen, J., Knizek, B.L., & Hjelmeland, H. (2020). “ … I felt completely stranded”: liminality and recognition of personhood in the experiences of suicidal women admitted to psychiatric hospital. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 15(1).
• Hed., S., Berg, A., Wiktorsson, S., Canetto, S. S., & Waern, M. (2024). Older adults make sense of their suicidal behavior: A Swedish interview study. Frontiers in Psychiatry
• Helman, R., Huque, S. I., & Chandler, A. (2024). Jarring Encounters: Discomfort, Disruption, and Dominant Narratives of Suicide. Qualitative Health Research, 10497323241302653.
• Hightower, H. H. (2024). Is It Suicide or Genocide?”: Black Female Clinicians’ Critical Understandings of Shame and Other Related Themes to Suicide in Black Communities. American Journal of Qualitative Research, 8(4), 151-177.
• Hjelmeland, H. (2016). A critical look at the current suicide research. In: J. White, I. Marsh, M. Kral & J. Morris (Eds.), Critical Suicidology: Re-Thinking Suicide Research and Prevention for the 21st Century, pp. 31-55. UBC Press.
• Hjelmeland, H. (2010) Cultural research in suicidology: Challenges and opportunities. Suicidology Online, 1, 34-52.
• Hjelmeland, H., Dieserud, G., Dyregrov, K., Knizek, B.L., Leenaars, A.A. (2012). Psychological autopsy studies as diagnostic tools: Are they methodologically flawed? Death Studies, 36, 605-626.
• Hjelmeland, H., Jaworski, K., Knizek, B.L., Marsh, I. (2019). Problematic advice from suicide prevention experts. Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, 20(2), 79-85.
• Hjelmeland H & Knizek BL (2010). Why we need qualitative research in suicidology. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 40(1), 74-80.
• Hjelmeland, H. & Knizek, B.L. (2016). Time to change direction in suicide research. In: R. O’Connor & J. Pirkis (Eds.), The International Handbook of Suicide Prevention, 2nd edition, pp. 696-709. Chichester, UK; Wiley Blackwell.
• Hjelmeland, H. & Knizek, B.L. (2016). Qualitative evidence in suicide. Findings from qualitative psychological autopsy studies. In: K. Olson, R. Young & I. Schultz (Eds.) Handbook of Qualitative Research for Evidence-Based Practice, pp. 355-371. Springer-Science.
• Hjelmeland, H. & Knizek, B.L. (2017) Suicide and mental disorders: A discourse of politics, power, and vested interests. Death Studies, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2017.1332905
• Hjelmeland, H. & Knizek, B.L. (2019). The emperor’s new clothes? A critical look at the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide. Death Studies. Online first.
• Hjelmeland, H. & Knizek, B.L. (2019). Epistemological differences in the discussion of the interpersonal theory of suicide: A reply to the response. Death Studies.
• Hintermayr, M. (2025). A Critical Inventory of Suicidology and Suicide Prevention. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 14 (3): 18–32. https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-9E1.
• Huque, S. I., Helman, R., Anderson, J., & Chandler, A. (2024). ‘Unforeseeable’ and ‘inevitable’: Constructions of prison suicide in Scotland’s Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths Inquiries. Criminology & Criminal Justice, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/17488958241252954 
• Jaworski, K. (2010). The author, agency and suicide. Social Identities, 16(5): 675-687.
• Jaworski, K. (2015). Suicide, agency and the limits of power. In Suicide and Agency: Anthropological Perspectives on Self-Destruction, Personhood and Power, eds. Broz, L., & D. Munster, (pp. 183-201). Farnham, UK: Ashgate.
• Jaworski, K. (2016). Divorcing suicidology, ethically. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 5(2): 18-25.
• Jaworski, K., and Broz, L. (2013). Reframing the composite self and agency in suicide. In Searching for Words: Howe Can We Tell Our Stories of Suicide? eds, Kulp, M., Korteling, N. & K. McKay, (pp. 111-120). Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press.
• Jaworski, K., and Scott, D. G. (2016). Understanding the unfathomable in suicide: Poetry, absence and the corporeal Body. In Critical Suicidology: Transforming Suicide Research and Prevention for the 21stCentury, eds. White, J., Marsh, I., Kral, M., & J. Morris, (pp. 209-228). Vancouver, Canada: University of British Columbia Press.
• Kaler, L. (2019). Rethinking the Study of College Student Suicide: Critical Suicidology and Higher Education. Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs 5(2): 53-66.
• Kaler, L. (2021). Rethinking the Study of College Student Suicide: Critical Suicidology and Higher Education. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Minnesota.
• Klein, E. and Mills, C. (2017). Psy-Expertise, therapeutic culture and the politics of the personal in development. Third World Quarterly, 38(9), 1990-2008.
• Knizek, B.L., Andoh-Arthur, J., Osafo, J., Mugisha, J., Kinyanda, E., Akotia, C., & Hjelmeland, H. (2021). Religion as meaning-making resource in understanding suicidal behavior in Ghana and Uganda. Frontiers in Psychology, 12.
• Knizek, B.L. & Hjelmeland, H. (2018). To die or not to die: A qualitative study of men’s suicidality in Norway. BMC Psychiatry, 18(263).
• Knizek, B.L. & Hjelmeland, H. (2022). What is the meaning, Katie? Katie’s diaries read through a meaning-making lens. In: J.F. Gunn III & D. Lester (eds.), Perspectives on a Young Woman’s Suicide: A Study of a Diary (pp. 93-108). New York: Routledge.
• Knizek, B.L., Mugisha, J., Kinyanda, E., Hagen, J., Hjelmeland, H. (2024). “When you are alone you have a narrow mind, but when you are with others you think broader into the other aspects”. A qualitative study on the role of sense of belonging and mattering in attempted suicide in Uganda. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 19(1).
• Kral, M.J. (1998). Suicide and the internalization of culture. Transcultural Psychiatry, 35, 221-233.
• Kral, M.J. (1994). Suicide as social logic. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 24, 245-255.
• Kral, M.J., & Idlout, L. (2016). Indigenous best practices: Community-based suicide prevention in Nunavut, Canada. In J. White, I Marsh, M.J. Kral, & J. Morris (Eds.), Critical suicidology: Transforming suicide research and prevention for the 21st century. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press.
• Kral, M.J., & Idlout, L. (2009). Community wellness and social action in the Canadian Arctic: Colective agency as subjective well-being. In L.J. Kirmayer & G.G. Valaskakis (Eds.), Healing traditions: The mental health of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press.
• Kral, M.J., Idlout, L., Minore, J.B., Dyck, R.J., & Kirmayer, L.J. (2011). Unikkaartuit: Meanings of well-being, unhappiness, health, and community change among Inuit in Nunavut, Canada. American Journal of Community Psychology, 48, 426-438.
• Kral, M.J. & White, J. (2017). ‘Moving Toward a Critical Suicidology’. Ann Psychiatry Ment Health 5(2): 1099.
• Kouri, S. (2015). Nomad suicidology. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 4(8), 66-75.
• Kouri, S., & White, J. (2014). Thinking the other side of suicide: Engagements with living. International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies, 5(1), 180-203.
• LeMaster, L. (2022). Suicidal. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 22(4), 391-395. https://doi.org/10.1177/15327086221087667
• Lenette C. (2023). Suicide research with refugee communities: The case for a qualitative, sociocultural, and creative approach. Social Sciences, 12(11), 637.
• Marsh, I. (2015) ‘Critical suicidology’: toward an inclusive, inventive and collaborative (post) suicidology. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 4 (5). pp. 6-9.
• Marsh, I. (2015) Critiquing contemporary suicidology. In: White, J., Kral, M., Morris, J. and Marsh, I., eds. Critical Suicidology: Transforming Suicide Research and Prevention for the 21st Century. Vancouver: UBC Press. pp. 15-30.
• Marsh, I. (2014) Suicide: the hidden cost of the financial crisis. New Statesman.
• Marsh, I. (2017) Historical phenomenology: understanding experiences of suicide and suicidality across time. In: Pompili, M. , ed. Phenomenology of Suicide. Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 1-12.
• Marzetti H, Chandler A, Jordan A, Oaten A. The politics of LGBT+ suicide and suicide prevention in the UK: risk, responsibility and rhetoric. Cult Health Sex. 2023 Nov;25(11):1559-1576. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2023.2172614. Epub 2023 Feb 13. PMID: 36780346.
• Mills, C. (2018). ‘Dead people don’t claim’: a psychopolitical autopsy of UK austerity suicides. Critical Social Policy, 38(2), 302-322.
• Münster, D. (2015). Farmers’ Suicides as Public Death: Politics, Agency and Statistics in a Suicide-Prone District (South India). Modern Asian Studies, 49(05), 1580–1605. doi:10.1017/S0026749X14000225
• Münster, D. (2015). Farmers’ Suicide and the Moral Economy of Agriculture: Victimhood, Voice, and Agro-Environmental Responsibility in South India. In L. Broz & D. Münster (Eds.), Studies in Death, Materiality and the Origin of Time. Suicide and agency. Anthropological perspectives on self-destruction, personhood and power (pp. 105–125). Farnham, UK, Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
• Münster, D. (2012). Farmers’ suicides and the state in India: Conceptual and ethnographic notes from Wayanad, Kerala. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 46(1-2), 181–208. doi:10.1177/006996671104600208.
• Münster, D., & Broz, L. (2015). The Anthropology of Suicide: Ethnography and the Tension of Agency. In L. Broz & D. Münster (Eds.), Studies in Death, Materiality and the Origin of Time. Suicide and agency. Anthropological perspectives on self-destruction, personhood and power (pp. 3–23). Farnham, UK, Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
• Oaten, A., Jordan, A., Chandler, A., & Marzetti, H. (2023). Suicide prevention as biopolitical surveillance: A critical analysis of UK suicide prevention policies. Critical Social Policy, 43(4), 654-675. https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221142544
• polanco m, Pham A (2024). Suicide and the Coloniality of the Senses, Time, and Being: The Aesthetics of Death Desires. Social Sciences, 13(11),576. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13110576
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• Stewart, K. R. (2024). What, Suicide Runs in Families? Writing-As-Inquiry to Examine Our “Not Knowing” About Intergenerational Suicide. Cultural Studies, Critical Methodologies, 24(5), 378–388. https://doi.org/10.1177/15327086241254813
• Tack, S. (2019). The logic of life: thinking suicide through somatechnics. Australian Feminist Studies, 34(99), 46-59.
• White, J. (2012). Youth suicide as a ‘wild problem:’ Implications for prevention practice. Suicidology Online, 3, 42-50.
• White, J. (2015) Shaking up Suicidology. Social Epstemology 4(6), 1-4.
• White, J. (2015). Qualitative evidence in suicide ideation, attempts, and prevention of suicide. In K. Olson, R. Young, & I. Schultz (Eds.). Handbook of qualitative health research for evidence-based practice (pp. 335-354). New York: Springer.
• White, J. (2017). What can critical suicidology do? Death Studies.
• White, J. (2019). Hello cruel world: Embracing a collective ethics for suicide prevention. In M. Button & I. Marsh (Eds.). Suicide and social justice: New perspectives on the politics of suicide and suicide prevention (pp. 197-210).Routledge Press.
• White, J. (2020). Suicidology is for cutting: Epistemic injustice and decolonial critiques. Social Epistemology Reply Collective, 9 (5),75-81.
• White, J., Costa, L. C. R., & Monique Carlos, D. (2025). Mapping the Emergence of Critical Suicide Studies: An Exploratory Qualitative Study. Journal of Progressive Human Services, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/10428232.2025.2548050
• White, J. & Kral, M. (2014).Re-thinking youth suicide: Language, culture and power. Journal of Social Action for Counseling and Psychology, 6(1), 122-142.
• White, J. & Morris, J. (2010). Precarious spaces: Risk, responsibility and uncertainty in youth suicide prevention education. Social Science & Medicine, 71, 2187-2194.
• White, J. & Morris, J. (2019). Re-thinking ethics and politics in suicide prevention: Bringing narrative ideas into dialogue with critical suicide studies. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16, 3236
• White, J. & Stoneman, L. (2012). Thinking and doing prevention: A critical analysis of contemporary youth crime and suicide prevention discourses. Child and Youth Services, 33, 104-126.
• X T, polanco marcela. An autopsy of the coloniality of suicide: Modernity’s completed genocide. Health. 2022;26(1):120-135. doi:10.1177/13634593211038517
• Zahl, P.-H., De Leo, D., Ekeberg, Ø., Hjelmeland, H., Dieserud, G. (2010). The relationship between sales of SSRIs, TCAs and suicide rates in the Nordic countries. BMC Psychiatry 10, 62.