Cultures of Silence (eBook, ePUB)

The Power of Untold Narratives
Redaktion: Santos, Luísa

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the notion of silence as both an oppressing instrument and a powerful tool of resistance under the lenses and practices of cultural production. It will be of interest to scholars of cultural studies, cultural history, media studies, politics, visual studies, communication studies, history, and literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000807691
• Artikelnr.: 66720435

Autorenporträt

Luísa Santos holds a PhD in Culture Studies from the Humboldt & Viadrina School of Governance, in Berlin, Germany and an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art, in London, UK. She is Assistant Researcher and Assistant Professor in Culture Studies/Artistic Studies at the CECC (Research Centre for Communication and Culture), Faculty of Human Sciences, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal, having been granted a Gulbenkian Professorship between 2016 and 2019. Having authored various publications in the domains of art and society, Luísa Santos sits on the editorial and scientific boards of the peer-reviewed magazines Estúdio, Gama, and Croma, and of the Yearbook of Moving Image Studies (YoMIS - Research Group Moving Image Kiel), Büchner-Verlag. Since 2018, she has been the co-artistic director of the nanogaleria, an independent curatorial project which she co-founded with Ana Fabíola Maurício.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface: Telling a Story of Silence(s) in Three Parts
Part I: (Embodied) Silence and Memory
1. Un-Silencing Bodies, Un-Silencing Lives: Artistic (Self-)Decoloniality and Artistic (Self-)Empowerment
2. The Sound of Silence in the Age of Man
3. Ecocritical Perspectives on Nuclear Silence: Listening Across Multiple Scales
Part II: (Imposed) Silence and Identity
4. Burning Silence in the Country House: On Colonial Torchères at Betlér Manor
5. Queer Silences: Art, Sexuality and Acoustic Neuroma (The Art of Samak Kosem)
6. Silence as a Weapon of Power Within the Context of the Portuguese Dictatorship
7. [Inaudible]: The Politics of Silence in the Work of Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Gabrielle Goliath
Part III: (Acts Of) Silence and Resistance
8. Undoing Language: Gender Dissent and The Disquiet of Silence
9. Rest as Resistance: From Self-Care to Decolonial Narratives
10. Gender-Based Violence and COVID-19 Pandemic: Addressing a Pervasive Public Health Issue Through an Upstream Multi-Systems Approach
Conclusion
11. On the Subject of Silence
Index