Listen!
Knowing the World and Fighting to Change It
An examination of how listening shapes who we are, weaves the world and grounds our movements for justice and liberation.
About the book
Listen! expands our understanding of "listening" as not an individual, passive act but as fundamental to constructing the social world — and to making it more just. As an activist, journalist, and host of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh shares what he's learned from decades of conversing with other activists and scholars.
What does it mean to find oneself overwhelmed by a world in turmoil, as the relentless news of genocide, climate change, and police violence drives home the urgent need for radical change but doesn't tell us how to make it happen? Listen! reflects deeply on the role of listening — from the moment of injustice to how we respond as individuals, to struggles by collective social movements. The book explores what these movements are, how they work, and what they do in the world, as well as the knowledge generated in and by them and the importance of listening to and within them. By sharpening our critical insight into listening, we can explicitly centre sensory pathways to understanding and strengthen our strategies for collective liberation as embodied and situated knowers.
Activism & Social Movements Class Inequality Cultural Studies Sociology
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Contents
- Introduction
- Part 1: What Listening Is
- Listening Practices
- Listening to Each Other
- Listening Weaves the World
- Part 2: Listening’s Reach and Limits
- The Scream and the Murmur
- Failures and Harms
- Part 3 Listening and Change
- Everyday Resistance
- Collective Movements
- Learning from Movements
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
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