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Migration and Listening: Political Life in Motion (2023)

Ximena Alarcón and Ed McKeon
EDWARD JOHN MCKEON
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Boundaries, thresholds, and limits characterise both political geography and the politics of voice and listening. The effect of hearing yourself speak, as Derrida noted, is foundational for sovereignty, self-identity, and relations to others. In this conversation, we explore experiences of border crossings and passing across limits through migration and movement alongside corresponding encounters with Deep Listening. Alarcón reflects on her experience of migration from Colombia to the UK and how this also involves ‘speaking and travelling in-between different languages’. McKeon draws on experience of ‘losing’ his accent, the voice’s marker of political identity. For both of us, Deep Listening has become an essential resource to forgo the desires of returning ‘home’ or arrival with their visa privileges and passports of legitimised status. Migration and movement are instead embraced for their potential to constitute another practice of centring and of balance without fixed and immovable boundaries. We aim to articulate this politics of listening and voice not through conventions of debate and polemics, defending ideological territories, but through exchange in dialogue, in what passes in the movement between us.
typeresearch exposition
keywordslistening, migration, translation, voice
date07/10/2022
published14/02/2023
last modified14/02/2023
statuspublished
share statusprivate
copyrightXimena Alarcón & Ed McKeon
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1756075/1756076
published inJournal of Sonic Studies
portal issue24. Issue 24


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