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- Focuses on the challenge of listening and its importance, rather than speaking and voice
- Integrates theoretical and empirical perspectives
- Develops an on-going dialogue between sociology and politics
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The book will appeal to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology and political theory.
Reviews
“This beautiful and compelling book argues engaged scholarship today requires a mutually reinforcing commitment to both listening and politics. For Leah Bassel, how we listen to people – from First Nation Peoples in Canada to young Muslim women in France – is as important as why we want to hear them. What she offers us is a politics of listening committed to deep forms of dialogue that challenge unequal distributions of voice and power. We have never needed a book like this one more than now.” (Les Back, Goldsmiths, University of London, author of The Art of Listening)
“Leah Bassel's work illuminates listening as a site of political struggle between and among citizens, non-citizens, and the state. Her careful case studies show how audibility is organized through particular constructions of ‘us’ and ‘them’, and the impact this has on both the form and content of political action. While the first two case studies demonstrate the narrative strategies through which not-listening is reproduced, the second two prefigure what political listening as a practice of equality might look (or sound) like. The insights provided by Bassel's discerning treatment of these cases will be valuable for researchers in a wide variety of fields, and hopefully inspiring to us as political actors as well.” (Susan Bickford, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, author of The Dissonance of Democracy)
Authors and Affiliations
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School of Media, Communication and Sociology, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
Leah Bassel
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Politics of Listening
Book Subtitle: Possibilities and Challenges for Democratic Life
Authors: Leah Bassel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53167-4
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-53166-7Published: 10 April 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-53167-4Published: 30 March 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 112
Topics: Political Sociology, Politics and Gender, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Political Communication