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Super Dimensions in Globalisation and Education pp 71–89Cite as

Screaming Silences: Subjects and Photographs in Schools in Contexts of Extreme Urban Poverty and Environmental Decay

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In this chapter, we discuss a group of photographs taken by students who live in slums of the global South. The images embody realities often denied or forgotten. In these images, the foreground gains terrain and what Deleuze describes as the process of ‘giving a face’ takes place. We set out to address the outline of a relationship where the word retreats and its bridges to the world dissolve. The silences that urban experience, in the global South, confronts us with emerge in the images produced by these young people. It is this experience that these young people photograph and name as “screaming silences.”

And below the state are becomings that can’t be controlled, minorities constantly coming to life and standing up to it--> (Deleuze 1995, p. 152)

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Silvia Grinberg was invited by The Jean Augustine Chair in Education in the New Urban Environment York University, 2013. http://edu.apps01.yorku.ca/jeanaugustinechair/home/think-tank-members/

  2. 2.

    Due to considerations of space, we cannot discuss in depth the research’s methodology here. An initial explication can be found in Grinberg (2010, 2013).

  3. 3.

    See Grinberg (2010).

  4. 4.

    See among others Bell (2010).

  5. 5.

    Our notion of the abject is in keeping with its formulation by Deleuze and Guattari (1995), as well as Butler (2002) and Kristeva (1988).

  6. 6.

    http://www.infobae.com/2013/10/30/1520222-graves-incidentes -jose-leon-suarez-prendieron-fuego-una-comisaria

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  1. CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Silvia M. Grinberg & Sofia Dafunchio

  2. CEDESI, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Silvia M. Grinberg

  3. Escuela de Humanidades, UNSAM, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Silvia M. Grinberg & Sofia Dafunchio

  4. UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Sofia Dafunchio

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Grinberg, S.M., Dafunchio, S. (2016). Screaming Silences: Subjects and Photographs in Schools in Contexts of Extreme Urban Poverty and Environmental Decay. In: Cole, D., Woodrow, C. (eds) Super Dimensions in Globalisation and Education. Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education, vol 5. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0312-7_5

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