The politics of listening: Possibilities and challenges for democratic life (Book Review)

Abstract

Attention to listening is often eschewed in favour of the more academically popular concept of voice. But, much like the ill-fated tree in the forest, what good is voice if there’s no-one to listen? The Politics of Listening shifts attention away from voice and towards the less-explored concept of listening. In exploration of the micropolitics of listening, Leah Bassel investigates whose voices are silenced or ignored, and questions the political attitudes and environments that allow this.