Invisibilization of Suffering: The Moral Grammar of Disrespect (Londres: Palgrave Macmillan)

The book explores invisibility as a concept of critical sociology. In particular, it analyzes the relationship between invisibilization and social suffering from both a theoretical perspective and research practice.

The author uses contemporary social theory (Honneth, Renault, le Blanc) to uncover the social grammar of suffering, that is, an underlying normative structure of pathological social interactions. He uses a variety of empirical examples to show the difficulty of piercing the veil of silencing and invisibilization that hinders access to suffering. She shows that visibilization, far from being a tool of social inclusion, can also be a mechanism of control, in which case invisibilization becomes a possibility of escaping certain mechanisms of domination.

This systematic analysis of (in)visibility as both a liberating and oppressive mechanism presents an important contribution to the field of critical theory, offering an original framework to help improve the status of marginalized social groups and individuals. Invisibilization of Suffering is a novel and valuable resource for scholars in sociology as well as neighboring fields such as social philosophy, social work, political science, criminology, linguistics, and educational science. It offers an important contribution to studies on theories of justice, marginalization, discrimination and social exclusion.

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