Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences

By Lois Presser

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520384938
• ISBN13: 9780520384934
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.3"