1st Edition

Rethinking Silence, Voice and Agency in Contested Gendered Terrains

Edited By Jane L. Parpart, Swati Parashar Copyright 2019
186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

186 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Global and local contestations are not only gendered, they also raise important questions about agency and its practice and location in the twenty-first century. Silence and voice are being increasingly debated as sites of agency within feminist research on conflict and insecurity. Drawing on a wide range of feminist approaches, this volume examines the various ways that silence and voice have... Read more

Preface [Kimberly Hutchings]  1. Rethinking the Power of Silence in Insecure and Gendered Sites [Jane L. Parpart and Swati Parashar]  2. Voice, Silence, Agency, Confusion [Christine Sylvester]  3. Reconstructing the Silence-Speech Dichotomy in Feminist Security Studies: Gender, Agency and the Politics of Subjectivity in La Frontière Invisible [Lene Hansen]  4. Rethinking the Equation Between Voice and Power in Household Bargaining and Global Household Models [Suzanne Bergeron and Marianne Marchand]  5. Negative Space and the Feminist Act of Citation: Strategic Silence and the Limits of Gendering an Unloving Discipline [David Duriesmith]  6. Listening to Silences and Voices – A Methodological Framework [Ayelet Harel-Shalev and Shir Daphna-Tekoah]  7. Redemption and Empowerment among the Bail Boys in Trinidad [Catherine Ali]  8. Engaged Silences as Political Agency in Post-genocide Rwanda: Jeanne’s Story [Susan Thomson]  9. Silence and Indigenous Women’s Resistance: Jani Shikar Among the Adivasis of Jharkhand [Anju Oseema Maria Toppo and Swati Parashar]  10. Silence as Strategy in the Sexual Commerce Industry: A Case Study from India [Sudeshna Chatterjee and Jane L. Parpart]

Biography

Jane L. Parpart, Swati Parashar