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Accepted Paper:
The (silent) role of listening in knowledge production for sustainable futures
Emma Jones
(Institute of Education)
Paper short abstract:
In this paper I would like to bring attention to the role of listening in knowledge production. To build towards a sustainable and socially just future, I would like to create a space that foregrounds knowledge production as a dialogic process and accounts for the positionality of the listener.
Paper long abstract:
I would like to approach this panel with the question that guided my Ph.D. thesis: Can the Coloniser Listen?
Spivak (1988) asked, Can the Subaltern Speak? and drew attention to the impossibility of the subaltern woman having a voice that is free from colonialism. Sharpe (2008), a student of Spivak, also proposed that non-Western forms of 'knowing' or acquiring knowledge of the world have been relegated to the margins of intellectual discourse; margins shaped by the creation of the 'other', 'orient', 'over there' objects of study in the colonial project. To be known, therefore, Sharpe (2008) argues that the subaltern must subsequently abandon 'traditional' ways of thinking, reasoning, and speaking.
But what if we shift the focus from the subaltern abandoning 'traditional' ways of speaking and instead foreground the situated knowledges of the listener, and knowledge production as a dialogic, pluriversal process?
When listening is implicated in the process of knowledge production, it requires us to be mindful of what we are (un)able to hear. In this workshop I would like us to consider what happens when we acknowledge our (in)ability to hear -- the (im)possibility of listening between standpoints or situated knowledges. Do we experience what I have termed 'ontological deafness'; a deafness that is produced and sustained by a priori theories of 'being' in the world, or can a turn to listening create new possibilities for more sustainable future?
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Accepted Paper:
Emma Jones (Institute of Education)
Paper short abstract:
Paper long abstract:
I would like to approach this panel with the question that guided my Ph.D. thesis: Can the Coloniser Listen?
Spivak (1988) asked, Can the Subaltern Speak? and drew attention to the impossibility of the subaltern woman having a voice that is free from colonialism. Sharpe (2008), a student of Spivak, also proposed that non-Western forms of 'knowing' or acquiring knowledge of the world have been relegated to the margins of intellectual discourse; margins shaped by the creation of the 'other', 'orient', 'over there' objects of study in the colonial project. To be known, therefore, Sharpe (2008) argues that the subaltern must subsequently abandon 'traditional' ways of thinking, reasoning, and speaking.
But what if we shift the focus from the subaltern abandoning 'traditional' ways of speaking and instead foreground the situated knowledges of the listener, and knowledge production as a dialogic, pluriversal process?
When listening is implicated in the process of knowledge production, it requires us to be mindful of what we are (un)able to hear. In this workshop I would like us to consider what happens when we acknowledge our (in)ability to hear -- the (im)possibility of listening between standpoints or situated knowledges. Do we experience what I have termed 'ontological deafness'; a deafness that is produced and sustained by a priori theories of 'being' in the world, or can a turn to listening create new possibilities for more sustainable future?
Leaving, Living and Learning: Knowledge Production and its Impact on Designing Just Sustainable Futures
Session 1 Wednesday 6 July, 2022, -