This essay offers a reflection on the interstices between words, silences, unutterable, and imaginary in Khal Torabully Marina Carter’s ground-breaking work, Coolitude: An Anthology of Indian Labour Diaspora . Further, this ponders how these silent spaces relate to archives, points act re-voicing or reclaiming ‘coolie’ might be envisioned through relational and/or paradoxical spaces.

This article explores how silence is held and transmitted through the materiality of deserted abandoned places along Polish frontier; generative role that silencing plays in local practices tolerance. The discusses two specific sites a town on Poland’s eastern border. Both were or destroyed at same time, are part larger landscape religious ethnic conflict area. history managed small everyday ac...