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The Right to Listen
The gist: We live in a world of constant noise. The power of anthropology is that it can help us listen to social silence, and, above all, see what is hidden in plain sight. To listen this way, it helps to embrace tools from ethnography about being an insider-outsider and borrow ideas such as habitus, reciprocity, sense-making, and lateral vision.
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We are all accustomed to thinking of freedom of speech as a universal human right enshrined in democratic countries’ constitutions and in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In looking at freedom of speech in this way, we tend naturally to focus on the right of the speaker to say what she believes, without censorship or punishment. But this
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