Political Silence: Meanings, Functions and Ambiguity - Paperback

by Sophia Dingli (Editor), Thomas N. Cooke (Editor)

Cooke and Dingli present a complex constellation of engagements that challenge the conceptual limitations of established approaches to silence by engaging with diverse, cross disciplinary analytical perspectives on silence and its political implications.

Author Biography

Sophia Dingli is a lecturer in International Relations at the University of Glasgow. Her work focuses on the relation of silence to politics, concentrating particularly on its relation to modern understandings of legitimacy, good government and order.

Thomas N. Cooke is a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada post-doctoral fellow at the Surveillance Studies Centre, Queen's University. Cooke's research meets at the intersection of digital privacy, Big Data, Internet surveillance and the philosophy of noise.