The Politics of Silence, Voice and the In-Between

ISBN-13: 9781032394831 / Twarda / 2023 / 256 str.

Opis

The Politics of Silence, Voice and the In-Between: Exploring Gender, Race and Insecurity from the Margins seeks to dismantle the deficit discourses generated through research about people as agency-less and, by extension, objects of study.

Spis treści

Foreword  Introduction: Theorising Liminal Spaces of Silence, Voice and the ‘In-Between’ During Political Instability, Precarity and Violence Part 1: Silence, Voice and the In-Between  1. Writing In-Between: Research, Resistance, and Academic Practices  2. Exilic Narrations of Syria’s Trauma: From a Politics of Being Perceived to a Politics of Perceiving  3. Queering Silence: Beyond Binaries Through Queer Readings of Texts on Silence  4. Silencing Speech and Spoken Silence in War Memorialisation in Japan  Part 2: Agency in the Face of Trauma, Memory and Survival  5. How Male Survivors of Wartime Sexual Violence Navigate Silence and Voice  6. Liminal Activism: Kosovar Wartime Sexual Violence Survivors’ Resisting Dynamics and Women’s Rights Organisations’ Defense  7. Silence, Multi-Modal Testimony, and Wartime Sexual Violence  8. Voicing and Silencing in Tandem: Feminist Activism on Abortion in Argentina and Turkey  Part 3: Exploring Empowerment and Activism: Women’s Bodies in a Dangerous World  9. The Silence/Voice Synergy of Yazidi Women’s Agency During and After ISIS  10. Afghan Women and the Burqa Trope: Mapping Agency in Liminality  11. Space of Loud Silences: Digital Media Start-Ups and Women’s Experiences of Gukurahundi Atrocities

O autorze

Aliya Khalid is a Lecturer in Comparative and International Education in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford, UK. She works on issues of educational equity with a focus on gender. Her areas of interest include the capability approach, negative capability, epistemic paradoxicality and justice, Southern-epistemologies, politics of representation, and knowledge production.

Georgina Holmes is a Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at The Open University, UK, a Lecturer in Politics at Imperial College London, UK, and a Visiting Research Fellow in the War Studies Department at King’s College London, UK. Her research focuses on gender and global security governance, with a specific focus on peacekeeping, militaries, international organisations, and political communication.

Jane L. Parpart is Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA, Carleton University, Canada, and the University of Ottawa, Canada. She is actively engaged with students writing their theses at all three universities. She continues to do research and to write as well as teaching and assessing graduate student work.