{"product_id":"democracy-and-the-politics-of-silence-9780271098883","title":"Democracy and the Politics of Silence","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost people equate democracy with discussion, speech, and making one's voice heard. But where does silence fit in? \u003ci\u003eDemocracy and the Politics of Silence \u003c\/i\u003einvestigates the largely overlooked role of silence in democratic politics. It challenges conventional wisdom by arguing that silence can support and affirm democratic pillars and outcomes like empowerment, inclusion, and equality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book focuses on a particular set of problems concerning the relationship between political silence and the democratic triad of voice, agency, and representation. Each of the book's chapters draws on a selection of hand-picked case studies, both historical and contemporary, including the NAACP's Silent Parade in 1917, demonstrations by the Women in Black, Spain's post-Franco Pact of Forgetting, Trump's silent majority, debates related to the representation of nonhuman beings, and the famous \u003ci\u003eMiranda\u003c\/i\u003e judgment on the right to silence. Together they offer an innovative, ambitious investigation of democratically undesirable silences and practices of silence that are powerfully affirmative of democratic subjectivities, aims, and norms. In thus expanding the repertoire of democratic citizenship, M?nica Brito Vieira invites readers to consider what silence might teach them about democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis timely book should appeal to political science students and scholars as well as anyone interested in the history of democracies and popular resistance movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eM?nica Brito Vieira\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Political Science at the University of York. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Elements of Representation in Hobbes: Aesthetics, Theatre, Law and Theology in the Construction of Hobbes's Theory of the State\u003c\/i\u003e and the coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of the Book: A Study on the Materiality of Ideas\u003c\/i\u003e, the latter also published by Penn State University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penn State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50869550514450,"sku":"9780271098883","price":131.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_28ae5a05-48c8-41f9-9979-f163542f4bdf.jpg?v=1737761406","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/democracy-and-the-politics-of-silence-9780271098883","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}