[Linganth] CaMP virtual reading group starts again August 25th

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,

We will be chatting with James Slotta in two weeks and engaging with his
new book, Anarchy and the Art of Listening.

He has asked us to read chapter 1.  Please read as much as you can, but do
feel free to join us even if you haven't managed to read everything.


PLEASE NOTE:  The reading group meets from
*12-1 pm EST*

on the last Friday of the month.



The reading can be found here:


Chapter 1
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zZ81PgzN-Pl1panCaS_Ai0Wv_AXFvFnZ/view?usp=drive_link

The meeting will be *12-1 pm*  EST on August 25th, and can be

reached by clicking on this Zoom link:

https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698

Looking forward to seeing you all virtually,

Ilana


Current virtual reading group schedule:

August 25th – James Slotta, Anarchy and the Art of Listening

September 29th – Frank Cody, The News Events

October 27th – Matthew Rosen, Tirana Modern

January 26th — Eitan Wilf, The Inspiration Machine

February 23 – Mike Prentice, Supercorporate

March – Liz Rodwell, Push the Button


Press blurb:

*Anarchy and the Art *of Listening is an ethnography of politics as it is
practiced on the other side of the spoken word, in the act of listening. James
Slotta explores how people in the Yopno Valley of Papua New Guinea
cultivate their listening to exercise power, shape their futures, and
sustain their communities in the face of ambitious leaders and powerful
outside institutions.

As in many parts of the global south, missionaries, NGO workers, educators,
mining companies, politicians, development experts, and others have sought
to transform life in and around the Yopno Valley. But as this book makes
clear, people there have not been a passive and pliable audience for these
efforts. They have brought their skills as "anarchic listeners" to these
encounters, advancing political agendas of their own.

To understand political life in the Yopno Valley, we need to look not only
at political speech but at the practices that lie on the other side of the
word in the act of listening. This, Slotta suggests, is also true well
beyond the bounds of the Yopno Valley.
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