Ethical Responsiveness and the Politics of Difference [Hardcover]

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 responsivenesslistening, reading and witnessingthe 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.

1. From Voice to Response: Ethical Responsiveness and the Politics of Difference (Tanja Dreher and Anshuman A. Mondal)

2. Locating Listening (Tanja Dreher and Poppy de Souza)

3. On Liberty on Listening: John Stuart Mill and the Limits of Liberal Responsiveness (Anshuman A. Mondal)

5. Freedom and Listening: Islamic and Secular Feminist Philosophies (Allison Weir)

6. When the Students Are Revolting: The (Im)Possibilities of Listening in Academic Contexts in South Africa (Anthea Garman)

7. Who Laughs at a Rape Joke?: Illiberal Responsiveness in Rodrigo Dutertes Philippines (Nicole Curato and Jonathan Corpus Ong)

8. Watching to Witness: Responses beyond Empathy to Refugee Documentaries (Sukhmani Khorana)

9. Facing Vulnerability: Reading Refugee Child Photographs through an Ethics of Proximity (Anna Szorenyi)

10. The Anti-Festival: Kimberley Aboriginal Cultural Politics and tlÉ