The voice of propaganda: Citizenship and moral silence in late-socialist Vietnam

• Autores: Susan Bayly
• Localización: Terrain, ISSN 0760-5668, Nº. 72, 2019 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Censures)
• Idioma: francés
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  • Building on ethnographic fieldwork in Vietnam’s vibrant capital Hanoi, this article asks why attempts to use moralising public iconography as talking points with research collaborators can so often have a silencing effect on otherwise voluble interlocutors. It is proposed that these are moments of agentive silence, where the muting of a vocal self can be an act of moral will, not the crushing of agency and voice. It is therefore suggested that there can be more to a silent self than the effect of a censor’s power to control or extinguish speech, especially in contexts where state propaganda can work both visually and textually to repress as well as authorise a citizen’s expressive voice.