Political Silence - Meanings, Functions and Ambiguity

List of contents

Political Silence, an introduction 1. Noise, Data, Silence, Privacy 2. The Global Politics of Silence and Sound: From Metaphor to Metonymy 3. Silence, Exit and the Politics of Piety: Challenging Logocentrism in Political Theory 4. Silence is Golden: Commemorating the Past in Two Minutes 5. Silence as Doing 6. A Deliberate Silence: The Politics of Aural Materialism 7. Agency Without Voice? A Political Ecology of Vegetal Silence 8. Silence as Relation in Music: Two Political Applications in Early Modern Times 9. Transgressive Silence: Ecology, Religion and the Power of Humility in the Practice of Diplomacy Residual Silence: Toward a Radical Activist Politics of Association

About the author

Sophia Dingli is a lecturer in International Relations at the University of Glasgow. Her work focuses on the relation of silence to politics, concentrating particularly on its relation to modern understandings of legitimacy, good government and order.
Thomas N. Cooke is a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada post-doctoral fellow at the Surveillance Studies Centre, Queen’s University. Cooke’s research meets at the intersection of digital privacy, Big Data, Internet surveillance and the philosophy of noise.

Summary

Cooke and Dingli present a complex constellation of engagements that challenge the conceptual limitations of established approaches to silence by engaging with diverse, cross disciplinary analytical perspectives on silence and its political implications.

Product details

• Authors: Sophia (Stat Returned - 11.08.20) N. Cooke Dingli, Sophia (University of Glasgow Dingli, Sophia N. Cooke Dingli
• Assisted by: Thomas N. Cooke (Editor), Sophia Dingli (Editor), Thomas N. Cooke (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781138097353
• ISBN: 978-1-138-09735-3
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: Interventions; Interventions
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Politics & government, Political science & theory, Politics and government, Political science and theory