Ethical Responsiveness and the Politics of Difference

Tanja Dreher is an ARC Future Fellow, UNSW Scientia Fellow and Associate Professor in Media at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Her work on the politics and ethics of listening has been published in Media, Culture & Society, Information, Communication & Society and Continuum. Anshuman A. Mondal is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of East Anglia, UK, and is author of Islam and Controversy: The Politics of Free Speech after Rushdie.

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).- 4. Listening with Recognition for Social Justice (Cate Thill).- 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 Duterte's 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 the Artful Business of Creating Spaces for Kardiya to Hear and Feel Across Difference (Lisa Slater).- 11. Silence as a Form of Agency?: Exploring the Limits of an Idea (Bina Fernandez).- 12. Noble Speech/Thunderous Silence: Toward a Buddhist Alter-Politics (Shinen Wong).- 13. Indigenous Research Methodologies and Listening the Dadirri Way (Lisa Waller).