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Centers responsiveness as a theoretical frame in debates on the politics of difference across various fields (in literary and cultural studies, media and communication studies, politics, sociology, philosophy), which usually emphasize the politics of voice/representation/expression
Focuses on the intersection of debates that are normally discussed separately, in particular the overlapping concerns of “multiculturalism” and “Indigeneity”
Engages with non-western concepts and epistemologies, thereby enacting an ethical responsiveness to forms of knowledge and ways of being other than the western, secular epistemology that underpins most social and political thought
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This edited collection focuses on the ethics, politics and practices of responsiveness in the context of racism, inequality, difference and controversy. The politics of difference has long been concerned with speech, voice and representation. By focusing on the practices and politics of responsiveness—listening, reading and witnessing—the volume identifies vital new possibilities for ethics and social justice.
Chapters focus on the conditions of possibility, or listening as ethical praxis; unsettling or disrupting colonial relationships; and ways of listening that highlight non-Western traditions and move beyond the liberal frame. Ethical responsiveness shifts some of the responsibility for negotiating difference and more just futures from subordinated speakers, and on to the relatively more privileged and powerful.
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Editors and Affiliations
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University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia
Tanja Dreher
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University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
Anshuman A. Mondal
About the editors
Tanja Dreher is an ARC Future Fellow, UNSW Scientia Fellow and Associate Professor in Media at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Her work on the politics and ethics of listening has been published in Media, Culture & Society, Information, Communication & Society and Continuum.
Anshuman A. Mondal is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of East Anglia, UK, and is author of Islam and Controversy: The Politics of Free Speech after Rushdie.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ethical Responsiveness and the Politics of Difference
Editors: Tanja Dreher, Anshuman A. Mondal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93958-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93957-5Published: 10 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06755-7Published: 13 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93958-2Published: 22 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 250
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Media and Communication, Cultural Theory, Literary Theory, Political Theory, Social Theory