Organizing silence : a world of possibilities / Robin Patric Clair. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clair, Robin Patric.

Series:

SUNY series in speech communication.

SUNY series in communication studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Silence.

Communication.

Sexual harassment.

Communication in organizations.

Resistance (Psychoanalysis).

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 259 p. )

Place of Publication:

Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c1998.

Summary:

Organizing Silence is a thought-provoking look at how silence is embedded in our language, society, and institutions. It provides an overview of the varied philosophical approaches to understanding the role of silence and communication. One particular view of silence/communication, as grounded in political and patriarchal frameworks, is given special attention. The author questions not only how dominant groups silence marginalized members of society, but also how marginalized groups privilege and abandon each other.

Contents:

The first word was silence

Silencing communication

Organizing silence

The use of framing devices to sequester organizational narratives: hegemony and harassment

The bureaucratization, commodification, and privatization of sexual harassment through insitutional discourse: a study of the "big ten" universities

Resistance and oppression as a self-contained opposite: an organizational communication analysis of one man's story of sexual harassment

When silence speaks: a discussion of self-contained opposites

Artful practices and the aesthetic perspective

From whispers to ...

Credits:

Production by Susan Geraghty.

Marketing by Anne Valentine.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-240) and indexes.

Chapter 4 was previously published in “The Use of Framing Devices to Sequester Organizational Narratives: Hegemony and Harassment,” Communication Monographs, 60, 113-136. © 1993 by Speech Communication Association (SCA). Reprinted by Permission of SCA.

Chapter 5 was previously published in “The Bureaucratization, Commodification, and Privatization of Sexual Harassment through Institutional Discourse: A Study of the Big Ten Universities,” Management Communication Quarterly, 7, 123-157. © 1993 Sage Publications, Inc. Reprinted by Permission of Sage Publications, Inc.

Chapter 6 was previously published in “Resistance and Oppression as a Self-Contained Opposite: An Organizational Communication Analysis of One Man's Story of Sexual Harassment,” Western journal of Communication, 58, 235-262. © 1994 Western States Communication Association (WSCA). Reprinted by permission of WSCA.

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany.

Printed in the United States of America.

No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission. No part of this book may be stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means including electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission in writing of the publisher.

ISBN:

0-7914-9917-0

0-585-08770-9

Publisher Number:

2027/heb33308 hdl