ABSTRACT
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
chapter |15 pages
Introduction
part 1|75 pages
Silence, Voice and the In-Between
chapter 2|16 pages
Exilic Narrations of Syria's Trauma
part 2|69 pages
Agency in the Face of Trauma, Memory and Survival
chapter 6|13 pages
Liminal Activism
chapter 8|21 pages
Voicing and Silencing in Tandem
part 3|50 pages
Exploring Empowerment and Activism