Qualitative Studies of Silence
Cambridge University Press, 7/18/2019
EAN 9781108421379, ISBN10: 1108421377
Hardcover, 250 pages, 23.5 x 15.6 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
Qualitative Studies of Silence brings together influential qualitative researchers from across the social sciences and humanities who have sought to understand the power of what remains unsaid, both psychologically and socially. Each chapter identifies one or more signs of silence and explains how these can form the basis of a rigorous qualitative investigation. The authors also demonstrate how silences operate in our private and collective lives by fulfilling psychological, relational, institutional, and ideological functions. The book contains multiple disciplinary perspectives and presents analyses of wide-ranging topics, such as medical consultations, whistleblowers, silence in court, omission-as-propaganda, trauma survivors, the silence of war museums, racism in the Americas, gendered silences, paid domestic labour, the undocumented student movement, and the Nazi past. This collection shows how such qualitative studies can reveal and contribute to understanding the unsaid as social action.
1. Introduction
a turn to silence Amy Jo Murray and Kevin Durrheim
2. Literal and metaphorical silences in rhetoric
examples from the celebration of the 1974 Revolution in the Portuguese Parliament Michael Billig and Cristina Marinho
3. Seeing silenced agendas in medical interaction
a conversation analytic case study Merran Toerien and Clare Jackson
4. Listening to the sound of silence
methodological reflections on studying the unsaid Eviatar Zerubavel
5. Social silences
conducting ethnographic research on racism in the Americas Christina A. Sue and Mary Robertson
6. Intimate silences and inequality
noticing the unsaid through layered data Amy Jo Murray and Nicole Lambert
7. Silence in the court
moral exclusion at the intersection of disability, race, sexuality, and methodology Susan Opotow, Emese Ilyes and Michelle Fine
8. Silencing self and other through autobiographical narratives Robyn Fivush and Monisha Pasupathi
9. Gendering the unsaid and the unsayable Gregory Coles and Cheryl Glenn
10. The language ideology of silence and silencing in public discourse
claims to silencing as metadiscursive moves in German anti-political correctness discourse Melani SchrÓ§ter
11. Propaganda by omission
the case of topical silence Tom Huckin
12. Silencing whistleblowers C. Fred Alford
13. Between sound and silence
the inaudible and the unsayable in the history of the First World War Jay Winter
14. Affect and the unsaid
silences, impasses, and testimonies to trauma Michael Richardson and Kyla Allison
15. The unsaid and the unheard
acknowledgement, accountability, and recognition in the face of silence Stephen Frosh
16. Topographies of the said and unsaid Kevin Durrheim and Amy Jo Murray.