Sonic Agency

Sonic Agency
Author: Brandon Labelle
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2020-12-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1912685957

A timely exploration of whether sound and listening can be the basis of political change. In a world dominated by the visual, could contemporary resistances be auditory? This timely and important book from Goldsmiths Press highlights sound's invisible, disruptive, and affective qualities and asks whether the unseen nature of sound can support a political transformation. In Sonic Agency, Brandon LaBelle sets out to engage contemporary social and political crises by way of sonic thought and imagination. He divides sound's functions into four figures of resistance—the invisible, the overheard, the itinerant, and the weak—and argues for their role in creating alternative “unlikely publics” in which to foster mutuality and dissent. He highlights existing sonic cultures and social initiatives that utilize or deploy sound and listening to address conflict, and points to their work as models for a wider movement. He considers issues of disappearance and hidden culture, nonviolence and noise, creole poetics, and networked life, aiming to unsettle traditional notions of the “space of appearance” as the condition for political action and survival. By examining the experience of listening and being heard, LaBelle illuminates a path from the fringes toward hope, citizenship, and vibrancy. In a current climate that has left many feeling they have lost their voices, it may be sound itself that restores it to them.

Rethinking Silence, Voice and Agency in Contested Gendered Terrains

Rethinking Silence, Voice and Agency in Contested Gendered Terrains
Author: Jane L. Parpart
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2018-12-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351719378

Global and local contestations are not only gendered, they also raise important questions about agency and its practice and location in the twenty-first century. Silence and voice are being increasingly debated as sites of agency within feminist research on conflict and insecurity. Drawing on a wide range of feminist approaches, this volume examines the various ways that silence and voice have been contested in feminist research, and their impact on how agency is understood and performed, particularly in situations of conflict and insecurity. The collection makes an important and timely contribution to interdisciplinary feminist theorizing of silence, voice and agency in global politics. Interrogating the intellectual landscape of existing debates about agency, silence and voice in an increasingly unequal and conflict-ridden world, the contributors to this volume challenge the dominant narratives of agency based on voice or speech alone as a necessary precondition for understanding or negotiating agency or empowerment. Many of the authors have engaged in field research in both the Global South and North and bring in-depth and diverse gendered case studies to their analysis, focusing on the increasing importance of examining silence as well as voice for understanding gender and agency in an increasingly embattled and complicated world. This book will contribute to and deepen existing discussions of agency, silence and voice in development, culture and gender studies, political economy, postcolonial and de-colonial scholarship as well as in the field of International Relations.

A Poetics of Resistance

A Poetics of Resistance
Author: Mary K. DeShazer
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 366
Release: 1994
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780472065639

A survey of the empowering poetry of politically active women in El Salvador, South Africa, and the United States.

The Epistemology of Resistance

The Epistemology of Resistance
Author: José Medina
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2013
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199929041

This book explores the epistemic side of racial and sexual oppression. It elucidates how social insensitivities and imposed silences prevent members of different groups from listening to each other.

Student Voice, Behaviour, and Resistance in the Classroom Environment

Student Voice, Behaviour, and Resistance in the Classroom Environment
Author: Thomas Ralph
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2023-12-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1003815847

This novel volume investigates the motivations behind disruptive pupil behaviour and offers practical guidance through discussion of a novel theoretical framework that explores how students perceive schooling, uncovering what their behaviour can tell us about how to adjust the school environment. Drawing on cutting-edge research and internationally relevant themes, chapters argue that non-compliant behaviour by students is not mindlessly reactive but is purposeful – a means to make themselves heard. The book explores a dynamic understanding of the processes of placemaking and offers insights on how students create 'student-friendly' places by re-appropriating spaces within schools and why they might behave in certain ways. Arguing that the wider implications of a failure in educational policy is detrimental to student retainment and success, the book will ultimately have ramifications across disciplines and classroom contexts in improving student engagement. This book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners and policy makers working in the fields of the sociology of education, teaching and teacher education, educational change and reform more broadly. Those looking into behaviour management, youth studies, and education policy will also find this book of interest.

Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies

Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies
Author: Norman K. Denzin
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 624
Release: 2008-05-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1412918030

Built on the foundation of their landmark Handbook of Qualitative Research, it extends beyond the investigation of qualitative inquiry itself to explore the indigenous and non-indigenous voices that inform research, policy, politics, and social justice.

Ms. Marvel's America

Ms. Marvel's America
Author: Jessica Baldanzi
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2020-02-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1496827031

Contributions by José Alaniz, Jessica Baldanzi, Eric Berlatsky, Peter E. Carlson, Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins, Antero Garcia, Aaron Kashtan, Winona Landis, A. David Lewis, Martin Lund, Shabana Mir, Kristin M. Peterson, Nicholaus Pumphrey, Hussein Rashid, and J. Richard Stevens Mainstream superheroes are becoming more and more diverse, with new identities for Spider-Man, Captain America, Thor, and Iron Man. Though the Marvel-verse is becoming much more racially, ethnically, and gender diverse, many of these comics remain shy about religion. The new Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan, is a notable exception, not only because she is written and conceived by two women, Sana Amanat and G. Willow Wilson, but also because both of these women bring their own experiences as Muslim Americans to the character. This distinct collection brings together scholars from a range of disciplines including literature, cultural studies, religious studies, pedagogy, and communications to engage with a single character, exploring Khan’s significance for a broad readership. While acknowledged as the first Muslim superhero to headline her own series, her character appears well developed and multifaceted in many other ways. She is the first character to take over an established superhero persona, Ms. Marvel, without a reboot of the series or death of the original character. The teenager is also a second-generation immigrant, born to parents who arrived in New Jersey from Pakistan. With essays from and about diverse voices on an array of topics from fashion to immigration history to fandom, this volume includes an exclusive interview with Ms. Marvel author and cocreator G. Willow Wilson by gender studies scholar Shabana Mir.

Choosing Silence

Choosing Silence
Author: Jane L. Parpart
Publisher:
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2010
Genre: Power (Social sciences)
ISBN:

James Merrill

James Merrill
Author: Reena Sastri
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2007
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0415955920

First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.