How Silence as a Collaborative Structure Shapes International Relations
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Discovery of the day · Political Science
“The many metaphors of silence: Conceptualizing silence as a collaborative structure”
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Social Sciences · Political Science
Discovery of the day
This study reconceptualizes silence not as a simple absence of speech but as a collaborative structure—a wide-spanning phenomenon sustained by multiple intersecting trajectories of silencing. The author demonstrates that the global silence on conflict-related sexual violence against men and boys functions as such a collaborative structure, where different forms of silence and silencing interact behind a unitary opaque surface. For a writer and philosopher who seeks to understand the social and spiritual dimensions of human experience, this framework offers a powerful analytical tool to examine how unspoken structures shape political realities and restrict advocacy, aligning with your interest in how societal power operates through both visible and invisible mechanisms.
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