Description
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.
The book argues that, regardless of marginalisation, people create spaces of liminality where they seek control over their lives by navigating the structures that exclude them. Challenging the false binary of silence as violence and voice as power, the book introduces the idea of an in-between ‘liminal space’ which is created by people to navigate conditions of oppression and move towards a politically stable and inclusive world.
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of gender studies, international development, peace and conflict studies, politics and international relations, sociology and media studies. It will be an important resource for courses incorporating gender, feminist and postcolonial perspectives.
Table of Contents
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
