The Politics of Hiding, Invisibility, and Silence: Between Absence and Presence - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138830569 ISBN 13: 9781138830561

Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

What is absence? What is presence? How are these two phenomena related? Is absence merely not being present? This book examines these and other questions relating to the role of absence and presence in everyday politics. Absence and presence are used as political tools in global events and everyday life to reinforce ideas about space, society, and belonging. The Politics of Hiding, Invisibility, and Silence contains six empirically-focussed chapters introducing case study locations and contexts from around the world. These studies examine how particular groups’ relationships with places and spaces are characterized by experiences that are neither wholly present nor wholly absent. Each author demonstrates the variety of ways in which absence and presence are experienced – through silence, forgetting, concealment, distance, and the virtual – and constituted – through visual, aural, and technological. Such accounts also raise philosophical questions about representation and belonging: what must remain absent, and what is allowed to be present? Who decides, and how? Whose voices are heard? Recognizing the complexity of these questions, The Politics of Hiding, Invisibility, and Silence provides a significant contribution in reconciling theorizations of absence with everyday life.

This book was published as a special issue of Space and Polity.

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About the Author

Rhys Dafydd Jones’ work examines the geographies of religion in rural spaces.

James Philip Robinson is a cultural-historical geographer at Queen’s University, Belfast, researching the geographies of camouflage.

Jennifer Turner’s interdisciplinary work at the University of Leicester focuses upon prison architecture and design, and its relationship to penal purpose.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138830569
• ISBN 13: 9781138830561
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 126
• Editor: Jones Rhys Dafydd, Robinson James, Turner Jennifer