Invisibilization and Silencing as an Ethical and Sociological Challenge

Herzog, Benno

doi:10.1080/02691728.2017.1383529

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“…To approach the theme of "invisibilization", our main source was the article "Invisibilization and Silencing as an Ethical and Sociological Challenge" by Brenno Herzog (2018). The author defines the process of invisibilization and silencing as an important obstacle to the integration of excluded and marginalized social groups.…”

Section: Integration Versus Invisibility: What Is Under Discussion?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The author defines the process of invisibilization and silencing as an important obstacle to the integration of excluded and marginalized social groups. Herzog argues that their very exclusion is actually being produced by mechanisms that make a group be seen as insignificant or "invisibilized" through the spreading of the notion that it is somehow irrelevant to the public sphere (HERZOG, 2018).…”

Section: Integration Versus Invisibility: What Is Under Discussion?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Syrian Refugees in Rio de Janeiro: Does the Brazilian Immigration Law Lead to Invisibilization?

Diaz¹

2020

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Considering a global scenario in which refugees are struggling to find asylum and after that integrate themselves, it is necessary to analyze the efficiency of different immigration policies and, more specifically, their practical implications in the lives of refugees. This present paper analyzed the general scenario of refugee integration through the lenses of a study case of the Syrian Refugees in Rio de Janeiro. The question this research aims to answer is if the considered progressive Brazilian integration laws are actually causing a process of invisibilization. The title takes an ontological stand and supports the sociological concept of the word “invisibilization”, since the object of interest is in fact the gradual process of turning invisible. The analysis of this project consists in literature review, interview with a specialist on the topic of Syrian Refugees in Rio de Janeiro, interpretation of open interviews with three refugees living in Rio and participative observation in a field research at a Refugee Festival. Analyzing all the data and personal depositions, the analysis points to two main categories of challenges for Syrian Refugees trying to integrate: a cultural isolation and local social barriers. Both types correspond to detachments from forms of their identity: isolated from their identity in Syria and not integrated enough to have an identity in Brazil. Accordingly to Brazilian legal reports, the social barrier should be facilitated if the all the policies foreseen in the Constitution and Refugee Act were actually implemented.

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Section: Integration Versus Invisibility: What Is Under Discussion?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Integration Versus Invisibility: What Is Under Discussion?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Syrian Refugees in Rio de Janeiro: Does the Brazilian Immigration Law Lead to Invisibilization?

Diaz¹

2020

Preprint

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“…As such, visibilization involves a wider process in which legally invisible phenomena are brought back into the public domain. It performs ‘fundamental tasks of solidarity in reaching a higher degree of social integration’ (Herzog, 2018). Finally, the concept of invisibilization offers a device to analyse the state of invisibility, in which actors who are denied presence in law remain outside the common field of vision, taking actions that can potentially have legal consequences without being challenged, as long as they comply with social mores.…”

Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

When a Single Man Wants to Be a Father: Revealing the Invisible Subjects in the Law Regulating Fertility Treatment

Krajewska

Cahill-O'Callaghan

2019

Social & Legal Studies

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This article takes the example of single men who wish to become single fathers, using surrogacy, as a case study to examine the nature of legal subjectivity and the process by which persons acquire social visibility through legal mechanisms. The article investigates the notion of the absent subjects in law and examines the ways in which single men have been rendered invisible in the area of assisted reproduction. It investigates the emergence of legal subjectivity through the acquisition of rights in the context of fertility treatment. In this respect, it analyses the recent jurisprudence of the English courts and the changes in the human rights law that helped construct single men as subjects of law. The article proposes the concept of (in)visibilization for a number of reasons. It allows us to observe and examine the slow and contingent emergence of legal subjectivity in law. It illuminates ways, in which aspects of the critique of human rights as an inadequate vehicle of social inclusion can be overcome. In both respects, the concept of (in)visibilization provides a diction, in which we can analyse legally relevant experiences, which have not yet crossed the threshold into the formal system of law.

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“…Two mechanisms are involved in misrecognition. Silencing can be defined as a mechanism used to eliminate participation of certain groups in public discourse, that is, in the space in which the “struggles” or “games” about knowledge, definitions, practices, and the distribution of power occur (Herzog, 2018; p. 14). To gain voice and receive access to space, one must often leave a specific minority group and accept the hegemonic rules of the dominant segment of society (Spivak, 1988).…”

Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Invisibilizing Eurasia: How North–South Dichotomization Marginalizes Post-Soviet Scholars in International Research Collaborations

Kuzhabekova

2019

Journal of Studies in International Education

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Despite the growing complexity and multidimensionality of the system of international research collaborations, the colonial discourse casting the collaborative relationships in terms of polarized North–South antitheses persists and continues to exert influence on the nature of power distribution in the relationships, as well as on the conceptualization of some players in the relationship as superior donors, whereas others as inferior recipients. In this article, I demonstrate how dichotomic representation of the geopolitical entities involved in international research collaboration fails to acknowledge the existence and marginalizes a large and extremely talented academic community of Eurasian scholars, which has the potential to enrich and transform the global knowledge system if it becomes more actively and authoritatively involved in the international system of ideas exchange and knowledge generation. I argue that this invisibilization of post-Soviet research community is part of the logic of postcolonial governmentality, which creates the demand and draws the post-Soviet world into international trade in knowledge-related expert services, whereby profits and benefits from the trade are reaped by the countries, which self-categorize as the North, while undermining the potential of the former Soviet scholarly community to contribute to global knowledge production on equal terms.

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Invisibilization and Silencing as an Ethical and Sociological Challenge

Cited by 23 publications

References 18 publications

Syrian Refugees in Rio de Janeiro: Does the Brazilian Immigration Law Lead to Invisibilization?

Syrian Refugees in Rio de Janeiro: Does the Brazilian Immigration Law Lead to Invisibilization?

When a Single Man Wants to Be a Father: Revealing the Invisible Subjects in the Law Regulating Fertility Treatment

Invisibilizing Eurasia: How North–South Dichotomization Marginalizes Post-Soviet Scholars in International Research Collaborations

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