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Harm takes shape in and through what is suppressed, left out, or taken for granted. This book is a guide to understanding and uncovering what is left unsaid—whether concealed or silenced, presuppos...
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  • 06 December 2022
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Harm takes shape in and through what is suppressed, left out, or taken for granted. This book is a guide to understanding and uncovering what is left unsaid—whether concealed or silenced, presupposed or excluded. Drawing on a variety of real-world examples, narrative criminologist Lois Presser outlines how to determine what or who is excluded from textual materials. With strategies that can be added to the tool kits of social researchers and activists alike, Unsaid provides a richly layered approach to analyzing and dismantling the power structures that both create and arise from what goes without saying.
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Price: $95.00
Pages: 212
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date: 06 December 2022
Trim Size: 8.25 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9780520384934
Format: Hardcover
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"Presser concedes the impossibility of creating a comprehensive, all-inclusive text in which nothing is left unsaid as she advocates for honest and critical reflection to identify the unspoken assumptions and silenced viewpoints characteristic of all texts."
Lois Presser is Professor of Sociology and Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is a coeditor of Narrative Criminology: Understanding Stories of Crime and the author of Inside Story: How Narratives Drive Mass HarmBeen a Heavy Life: Stories of Violent Men, and Why We Harm.
Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments

1. Kept Quiet
2. Too Little or Too Much Said
3. Figurative Expression
4. Missing Subjects 
5. The Social Construction of Absences
6. Concluding Remarks: Boundless Texts, Better Worlds

Appendix: A Word on Sampling
Glossary 
Notes 
References
Index