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This volume is an interdisciplinary exploration of the modalities, meanings, and practices of silence in contemporary social discourse. How is silence treated in different cultures? In a globalized world, how is silence managed between and across cultures?

Co-authored by a philosopher and an economist, the text draws on interviews with scholars and practitioners in fields as diverse as marine biology and African American history. International case studies are presented in operational contexts from the Black Lives Matter movement to the creation of art installations to the struggles of transgender people in Southeast Asia. The authors examine the relationship between ethics and silence, and suggest strategies to transform social praxis through greater attention to silence.

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Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Methodologies of Silence

Chapter 3: Methodology

Chapter 4: The silence surrounding special needs children in a Third-world country (Guyana)

Chapter 5: Silence in the environment: Sustainable development in Nigeria

Chapter 6: Silence in cross-cultural education: Illustration from Pohnpei, Micronesia

Chapter 7: Silence in the effort to restructure an economy: Uzbekistan

Chapter 8: Listening to the spectrum: Autism in America

Chapter 9: Another accent in the silence: Autism in India

Chapter 10: An ear for the elderly: Age Care amongst the Indian Diaspora in Australia

Chapter 11: Making something out of silence: Indigenous sustainable livelihoods (Indonesia)

Chapter 12: Epilogue: The "So What?/Now What?"

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Nancy Billias, Professor of Philosophy, University of Saint Joseph, West Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

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