October 25, 2019

How do we listen to silence? When do we fail to listen? How do distrust and unpredictability frame research enquiry? How do we listen to testimony? When do we fail to listen? what about voice?

 how does one / write / poetry from a place / a place structured / by absence / One doesn’t. One learns to read the silence/s.

—M. NourbeSe Philip

Readings

1. Kent, Lia. “Sounds of Silence: Everyday Strategies of Social Repair in Timor-Leste.” Australian Feminist Law Journal 42.1 (2016): 31-50.
2. Parpart, Jane L. “Choosing silence: Rethinking voice, agency and women’s empowerment.” Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process. Routledge, 2013. 34-48.
3. Ross, Fiona. (2010). An acknowledged failure: Women, voice, violence, and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In, Localizing transitional justice: Interventions and priorities after mass violence; 69-91.
4. Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. 2015. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. Boston: Beacon Press. Read chapter 1 and 2.

5. WATCH – Oppenheimer, Joshua. (2014). The look of silence. Video Recording: Film Platform.
6. Roosa, John. (2017). The Look of Silence. Pacific Affairs, 90(1), 220.