Polisemias del silencio #0

A collective publication self-published by Saberes migrantes and Jiser Reflexions Mediterrànies, which critically examines the different themes that cross the colonial fact and migrations.

This number #0 explores the multiple meanings, convergent and divergent, that silence has.

It can be understood as a philosophical category, as a state of the soul, as a place where it is possible to find truths or insights, as a political tool, as an imposition of the instituted powers, as the inert complicity that can 'sustain' the cruelty and evil of history.

Silence is not 'good' or 'bad' in itself, but depends on what intentions or purposes we enter into this state. It depends on whether this silence is desired or imposed, it depends on whether we are talking about silences or silences, voices, cries, rights, words. And it is here that we critically explore the constructed oblivion and the different ways in which silence operates to legitimise domination, to erect colonial history as a unique discourse or to privilege some voices over others when dealing with the fact of migration.