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.
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Methodologies of Silence
Chapter 3: Methodology
Chapter 4: The silence surrounding special needs children in a Third-world country (Guyana)
Chapter 5: Silence in the environment: Sustainable development in Nigeria
Chapter 6: Silence in cross-cultural education: Illustration from Pohnpei, Micronesia
Chapter 7: Silence in the effort to restructure an economy: Uzbekistan
Chapter 8: Listening to the spectrum: Autism in America
Chapter 9: Another accent in the silence: Autism in India
Chapter 10: An ear for the elderly: Age Care amongst the Indian Diaspora in Australia
Chapter 11: Making something out of silence: Indigenous sustainable livelihoods (Indonesia)
Chapter 12: Epilogue: The So What?/Now What?
Nancy Billias, Professor of Philosophy, University of Saint Joseph, West Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
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