The Politics of Silence, Voice and the In-Between: Exploring Gender, Race and Insecurity from the Margins

The Politics of Silence, Voice and the In-Between: Exploring Gender, Race and Insecurity from the Margins seeks to dismantle the deficit discourses generated through research about people as agency-less and, by extension, objects of study.

The book argues that, regardless of marginalisation, people create spaces of liminality where they seek control over their lives by navigating the structures that exclude them. Challenging the false binary of silence as violence and voice as power, the book introduces the idea of an in-between ‘liminal space’ which is created by people to navigate conditions of oppression and move towards a politically stable and inclusive world.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of gender studies, international development, peace and conflict studies, politics and international relations, sociology and media studies. It will be an important resource for courses incorporating gender, feminist and postcolonial perspectives.

Aliya Khalid is a Lecturer in Comparative and International Education in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford, UK. She works on issues of educational equity with a focus on gender. Her areas of interest include the capability approach, negative capability, epistemic paradoxicality and justice, Southern epistemologies, politics of representation and knowledge production.

Georgina Holmes is a Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at the Open University, UK, a Lecturer in Politics at Imperial College London, UK, and a Visiting Research Fellow in the War Studies Department at King’s College London, UK. Her research focuses on gender and global security governance, with a specific focus on peacekeeping, militaries, international organisations and political communication.

Jane L. Parpart is Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA, Carleton University, Canada, and the University of Ottawa, Canada. She is actively engaged with students writing their theses at all three universities. She continues to do research and to write as well as teach and assess graduate student work.