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Sep 10, 2019 · Political silence, whether intentional or unintentional, produces uncertainty, in such a way that entangles the recipient of silence in confusion. Along this line of thinking, our volume posits that political silence represents an opening to (re)configuration, (re)collectivism, and (re)deployment – not their demise.
The Politics of Silence. From deliberative democracy to participatory politics, democratic theory has overwhelmingly focused on voice, speech, and discourse. Speech, however, cannot be intelligible unless permeated by silence. Pauses between words, their duration and location, are as meaningful and consequential as words themselves.
Political silence is not merely a manifestation of violence or domination. Beyond the compulsion to uniformly conceptualise silence-as-domination, there resides an opportunity to (re)conceptualise the concept altogether. Our edited volume Political Silence: Meanings, functions and ambiguity endeavours to do that.
The notion of ‘silence’ in Politics and International Relations has come to imply the absence of voice in political life and, as such, tends to be scholastically prescribed as the antithesis of political power and political agency. However, from Emma Gonzáles’s three minutes of silence as part of her address at the March for Our Lives, to Trump’s attempts to silence the investigation into his campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia, along with the continuing revelations articula
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Jul 18, 2020 · 8. This does not mean that a discussion of political silence in an abstract sense – as the ‘absent centre’ of political ontology (Palladino & Moreira, Citation 2006) – cannot itself be a worthwhile endeavour. It has been at the basis of sophisticated debates in political theory.
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Rather, this collection seeks to remedy intellectual tendencies to reduce silence to violence, oppression, and absence so as to illuminate how the taken-for-granted and the most seemingly insignificant of silences enable, open, and mobilise power and agency. In 2018, numerous political silences loudly vie for our attention and response.
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6 days ago · First, I offer a new conceptualization of silence, arguing that silence is best understood as the site of a potential or actual presence. Second, I use criteria of domination and displaced involvement to assess attempts to enfranchise silence within the transmission-belt model of representation.
