The Ethics of Silence

An Interdisciplinary Case Analysis Approach

Nancy Billias, Sivaram Vemuri

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9783319503820
• Topic: Philosophie
• Subtopic: Éthique et philosophie morale

This volume is an interdisciplinary exploration of the modalities, meanings, and practices of silence in contemporary social discourse. How is silence treated in different cultures? In a globalized world, how is silence managed between and across cultures?

Co-authored by a philosopher and an economist, the text draws on interviews with scholars and practitioners in fields as diverse as marine biology and African American history. International case studies are presented in operational contexts from the Black Lives Matter movement to the creation of art installations to the struggles of transgender people in Southeast Asia. The authors examine the relationship between ethics and silence, and suggest strategies to transform social praxis through greater attention to silence.

Table of contents

• The Ethics of Silence
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Working with Silence
• 3 Whose Silence? Hearing Echoes of Disembodied Trauma (Argentina)
• 4 Silence Looking Out and Looking In (Southeast Asia)
• 5 The Silence of the Unknown and the Unknowable (Guyana)
• 6 How Many Layers of Silence Can One Context Hold? (Micronesia)
• 7 Who May Speak? Who Must Be Silent? (Australia)
• 8 Individual, Collective, and Strategic Silences (USA)
• 9 Visible Silence (Poland/Germany)
• 10 The Healing Qualities of Silence (Uganda)
• 11 Reflections
• Index