Beyond Empathy and Inclusion 2020
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197535455.003.0004
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A Listening-Centered Approach to Democratic Deliberation

Abstract: Chapter 4 proposes a listening-centered alternative to empathy-based approaches to deliberation. The chapter begins by discussing how the concept of listening is used in everyday language and then introduces a more systematic “theory of listening acts.” Using the categories of speech act theory to identify corresponding categories of the listening act, the author distinguishes between auditory, perauditory, and ilauditory listening. With this listening act theory, the author shows that listening is more than s… Show more

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“…This, moreover, is consonant with recent developments in political theory, which argue that the act of listening has received comparatively little attention in democratic theory. The latter, they say, has normally focused on empowering citizens to speak (Bickford 1996; Dobson 2014; Scudder 2020). Inclusion and equality are usually put in terms of conferring the right to have a say in public affairs, so that, in general, we bear witness “to the eclipse of listening as a concept and practice worthy of theoretical attention” (Dobson 2014, 18).…”
Section: Mythomania and The Contemporary Public Spherementioning
confidence: 99%
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“…This, moreover, is consonant with recent developments in political theory, which argue that the act of listening has received comparatively little attention in democratic theory. The latter, they say, has normally focused on empowering citizens to speak (Bickford 1996; Dobson 2014; Scudder 2020). Inclusion and equality are usually put in terms of conferring the right to have a say in public affairs, so that, in general, we bear witness “to the eclipse of listening as a concept and practice worthy of theoretical attention” (Dobson 2014, 18).…”
Section: Mythomania and The Contemporary Public Spherementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Inclusion and equality are usually put in terms of conferring the right to have a say in public affairs, so that, in general, we bear witness “to the eclipse of listening as a concept and practice worthy of theoretical attention” (Dobson 2014, 18). Behind such a trend, it is argued, we find the problem that listening has often been unfavorably equated with something passive, a sign of weakness, dependency, and ignorance (Dobson 2014, 41–47; Scudder 2020, 84; Gross 2020, 35, 130–33). Listening, accordingly, is deemed suitable not for those who rule but for those who are ruled.…”
Section: Mythomania and The Contemporary Public Spherementioning
confidence: 99%
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“…As Emma González at #MarchforOurLives abruptly went silent for 6 minutes 20 seconds to express her anger and critical message to the US society, silence enabled people who are inevitably disadvantaged in the public sphere to be recognized and heard, thereby making the public sphere more inclusive and democratic (see also Rollo, 2017). Having said that, some deliberative theorists (Scudder, 2020) unpacked that silence sometimes functions as a refusal to take up the voices of others intended to reinforce the existing power imbalances. As such, in a different deliberative setting, same practices function quite differently.…”
Section: Transformations Of Deliberative Theorymentioning
confidence: 99%