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ABOUT THE BOOK

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 articulated by silence-breakers of sexual harassment, it is apparent that there are multiple meanings and functions of political silence – all of which intersect at the nexus of power and agency.

Dingli and Cooke 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 in the realms of: environmental politics, diplomacy, digital privacy, radical politics, the politics of piety, commemoration, international organization and international law, among others. Contributors to this edited collection chart their approaches to the relationship between silence, power and agency, thus positing silence as a productive modality of agency.

While this collection promotes intellectual and interdisciplinary synergy around critical thinking and research regarding the intersections of silence, power and agency, it is written for scholars in politics, international relations theory, international political theory, critical theory and everything in between.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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