Harm takes shape in and through what is suppressed, left out, or taken for granted. This book is a guide to understanding and uncovering what is left unsaid—whether concealed or silenced, presupposed or excluded. Narrative criminologist Lois Presser outlines a strategy for determining what or who is excluded from textual materials, adding to the tool kits of social researchers and activists alike. Drawing on a variety of real-world examples, Unsaid provides a richly layered approach to analyzing and dismantling the power structures that both create and arise from what goes without saying.
Unsaid Analyzing Harmful Silences
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"An immensely innovative, elegantly written, highly imaginative, and important contribution. This book provides a wealth of examples and a methodological guide on how to identify what many might deem impossible to identify."—Joachim J. Savelsberg, author of Knowing about Genocide: Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles"A significant contribution to the literature on narrative and discourse analysis. Engagingly written and well thought through, this book offers a compelling conceptual apparatus for considering the centrality of the unsaid, especially in relation to harm doing and exclusionary, minoritizing practices."—Stephen Frosh, author of Those Who Come After: Postmemory, Acknowledgement and Forgiveness