The pedagogy of listening: The poetics of crisis in contemporary Europe
- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis
- Publication Type:
- Chapter
- Citation:
- Crisis and the Culture of Fear and Anxiety in Contemporary Europe, 2023, pp. 20-38
- Issue Date:
- 2023-01-01
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This chapter situates the epistemological category of crisis in Europe into a framework that includes both listening and reading as critical acts that force European subjects to reorient their critical understanding of the social terrain and reinscribe it in terms of relationality and community. The chapter explores the poetics of crisis in contemporary Greece and considers how understandings of crisis might shift when the act of listening is privileged as an analytical tool. I argue that the poetic output of the loose poetry movement in Greece known as the Generation of the 2000s is a response to a crisis being experienced as ongoing and chronic instead of an event that can be overcome. Drawing on theories of listening from both philosophy and theories of education, I argue that not only are readability and listening intimately entwined but that a pedagogy of listening is a tool that can make crises readable beyond the structures of the university. A poetics of crisis that uses a pedagogy of listening not only engages citizens where politics and economics has failed but also re-energises the acts of listening and reading with radical possibilities of contestation and healing during times of temporal dislocation.
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