The Politics of Hiding, Invisibility, and Silence: Between Absence and Presence

ISBN-13: 9780367738976 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 118 str.

Rhys Dafydd Jones; James Robinson; Jennifer Turner

Opis

The Politics of Hiding, Invisibility, and Silence contains six empirically-focussed chapters introducing case study locations and contexts from around the world. In exploring the political dimensions of absence and presence, these studies bring new insight to theorize the relationship between these two complex terms.

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Spis treści

1. Introduction. Between Absence and Presence: Geographies of Hiding, Invisibility and Silence  2. A Crisis of Presence: On-line Culture and Being in the World  3. Political Presence and the Politics of Noise  4. Knowing (or Not) about Katyn´ : The Silencing and Surfacing of Public Memory  5. Criminals with ‘Community Spirit’: Practising Citizenship in the Hidden World of the Prison  6. Negotiating Absence and Presence: Rural Muslims and ‘Subterranean’ Sacred Spaces  7. Invisible Targets, Strengthened Morale: Static Camouflage as a ‘Weapon of the Weak’

O autorze

Rhys Dafydd Jones’ work examines the geographies of religion in rural spaces.

James Philip Robinson is a cultural-historical geographer at Queen’s University, Belfast, researching the geographies of camouflage.

Jennifer Turner’s interdisciplinary work at the University of Leicester focuses upon prison architecture and design, and its relationship to penal purpose.