What is absence? What is presence? How are these two phenomena related? Is absence merely not being present? This book examines these and other questions relating to the role of absence and presence in everyday politics. Absence and presence are used as political tools in global events and everyday life to reinforce ideas about space, society, and belonging. "The Politics of Hiding, Invisibility, and Silence "contains six empirically-focussed chapters introducing case study locations and contexts from around the world. These studies examine how particular groups relationships with places...