1st Edition
Political Silence Meanings, Functions and Ambiguity
Political Silence, an introduction
Thomas N. Cooke and Sophia Dingli
1. Noise, Data, Silence, Privacy
Thomas N. Cooke
2. The Global Politics of Silence and Sound: From Metaphor to Metonymy
Noè Cornago
3. Silence, Exit and the Politics of Piety: Challenging Logocentrism in Political Theory
Sophia Dingli and Sameera Khalfey
4. Silence is Golden: Commemorating the Past in Two Minutes
Faye Donnelly
5. Silence as Doing
Xavier Guillaume and Elisabeth Schweiger
6. A Deliberate Silence: The Politics of Aural Materialism
Adam T. Kingsmith
7. Agency Without Voice? A Political Ecology of Vegetal Silence
Karl Petschke
8. Silence as Relation in Music: Two Political Applications in Early Modern Times
Frédéric Ramel
9. Transgressive Silence: Ecology, Religion and the Power of Humility in the Practice of Diplomacy
David J. Wellman
Residual Silence: Toward a Radical Activist Politics of Association
Robert Latham
Biography
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.
