Qualitative Studies Of Silence: The Unsaid As Social Action

313 Pages·2019·2.515 MB·English

by  Amy Jo Murray, Kevin Durrheim

Qualitative Studies of Silence
Qualitative Studies of Silence brings together influential qualitative
researchers from across the social sciences and humanities who have
soughttounderstandthepowerofwhatremainsunsaid,bothpsycho-
logicallyandsocially.Eachchapteridentifiesoneormoresignsofsilence
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
disciplinaryperspectivesandpresentsanalysesofwide-rangingtopics,
such as medical consultations, whistleblowers, silence in court,
omission-as-propaganda,traumasurvivors,thesilenceofwarmuseums,
racism in the Americas, gendered silences, paid domestic labour, the
undocumentedstudent movement,and theNazi past. Thiscollection
showshowsuchqualitativestudiescanrevealandcontributetounder-
standingtheunsaidassocialaction.
AmyJoMurrayisaresearcherbasedinthepsychologydepartmentat
theUniversityofKwaZulu-Natal,SouthAfrica.Sheisexploringcrea-
tivewaysofunderstandingsocialjusticeandinequalitythroughquali-
tativeresearch.
Kevin Durrheim is Professor of Psychology at the University of
KwaZulu-Natal,SouthAfrica,whereherunsaresearchlabandteaches
socialpsychologyandresearchmethods.

Qualitative Studies of Silence
The Unsaid as Social Action
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Amy Jo Murray
UniversityofKwaZulu-Natal,SouthAfrica
Kevin Durrheim
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Contents
ListofFigures pageix
ListofContributors x
Acknowledgments xiv
Introduction:ATurntoSilence 1
amy jo murray and kevin durrheim
1 LiteralandMetaphoricalSilencesinRhetoric:Examples
fromtheCelebrationofthe1974Revolutioninthe
PortugueseParliament 21
michael billig and cristina marinho
2 SeeingSilencedAgendasinMedicalInteraction:
AConversationAnalyticCaseStudy 38
merran toerien and clare jackson
3 ListeningtotheSoundofSilence:Methodological
ReflectionsonStudyingtheUnsaid 59
eviatar zerubavel
4 SocialSilences:ConductingEthnographicResearchon
RacismintheAmericas 71
christina a. sue and mary robertson
5 IntimateSilencesandInequality:NoticingtheUnsaid
throughTriangulation 89
amy jo murray and nicole lambert
6 SilenceintheCourt:MoralExclusionattheIntersection
ofDisability,Race,Sexuality,andMethodology 107
susan opotow, emese ilyes, and michelle fine
7 SilencingSelfandOtherthroughAutobiographical
Narratives 126
robyn fivush and monisha pasupathi
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8 GenderingtheUnsaidandtheUnsayable 147
gregory coles and cheryl glenn
9 TheLanguageIdeologyofSilenceandSilencinginPublic
Discourse:ClaimstoSilencingasMetadiscursiveMoves
inGermanAnti-PoliticalCorrectnessDiscourse 165
melani schröter
10 PropagandabyOmission:TheCaseofTopicalSilence 186
tom huckin
11 SilencingWhistleblowers 206
c. fred alford
12 BetweenSoundandSilence:TheInaudibleandthe
UnsayableintheHistoryoftheFirstWorldWar 223
jay winter
13 AffectandtheUnsaid:Silences,Impasses,and
TestimoniestoTrauma 236
michael richardson and kyla allison
14 TheUnsaidandtheUnheard:Acknowledgement,
Accountability,andRecognitionintheFaceofSilence 254
stephen frosh
15 Conclusion:TopographiesoftheSaidandUnsaid 270
kevin durrheim and amy jo murray
Index 293
Figures
12.1 Fosse,ordugout,representingtrenchesintheFirst
WorldWar. page226
12.2 Theendofthewar:Aseismographofthecessation
ofartilleryfireon11November1918. 232
15.1 Topographicalmapofthesaidandunsaid. 275
15.2a Trailsystemonauniversitycampus. 283
15.2b Stigmerticsimulationofatrailsystem. 284
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