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192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/52127| Title: | The Politics of Listening |
| Authors: | Bassel, Leah |
| Keywords: | Possibilities and Challenges for Democratic Life |
| Issue Date: | 2016 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Description: | This chapter explains the aims of the book: to explore listening as a social and political process. The politics of listening can disrupt power and privilege and harmful binaries of ‘Us and Them’, with the aim of political equality. The chapter explores why we should listen and how, in adversarial, tense and unequal political moments. This intervention takes place at the boundary of politics and sociology. Key characteristics of a politics of listening are identified – interdependence, recognition and micropolitics – in dialogue with the work of key scholars Les Back, Susan Bickford and Nick Couldry. The ‘where’ and ‘when’ of a politics of listening are outlined: the possibilities and challenges for democratic life in France, Canada, England, that each chapter then explores |
| URI: | http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/52127 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-137-53167-4 |
| Appears in Collections: | Atlas |
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