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Trouillot on the importance of political power in creating silences: The play of power in the production of alternative narratives begins with the joint creation of facts and sources for at least two reasons. First, __facts are never meaningless: indeed, they become facts only because they matter in some sense, however minimal. Second, facts are not created equal: the production of traces is always also the creation of silences.__

Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies; Second Edition

Matthias Gross, Linsey McGoey (eds)

Storing surplus food only postpones the problem. Worse, it aggravates it, by giving farmers misleading signals to the effect that they should continue growing more foodgrains instead of diversifying their crops. Sooner or later, this is bound to lead to a glut in the foodgrain market and a collapse of market prices, defeating the price-support policy.

Sense and Solidarity

Jean Drèze

The concept of articulation denotes the political-cultural work that has to be done to mobilise both meanings and people in order to realise a project (and the work of dis-articulation and de-mobilisation that is necessary to close out other projects).

Publics, Politics and Power

Janet Newman and John Clarke

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