Community Listening

Edited by Jenn Fishman, Romeo García, and Lauren Rosenberg
Copy edited by Caitlin Kahihikolo. Designed by Mike Palmquist

Contributors: Sally F. Benson; Ada Hubrig; Patty Wilde, Mitzi Ceballos, and Wyn Andrews Richards; Kyle Boggs; Karen R. Tellez-Trujillo; Alexandra J. Cavallaro, Wendy Hinshaw, and Tobi Jacobi; Bailey M. Oliver-Blackburn, April Chatham-Carpenter, and Carol L. Thompson; Mary P. Sheridan, Cate Fosl, Kelly Kinahan, Carrie Mott, Angela Storey, and Shelley Thomas; Katie W. Powell; Keri Epps and Rowie Kirby-Straker with Casey Beiswenger, Zoe Chamberlin, Hannah Hill, Lauren Robertson, and Kaitlyn Taylor.

Generating more questions than it answers, Community Listening: Stories, Hauntings, Possibilities invites readers to learn about listening that is deeply enmeshed in specific community sites, stories, and relations. Contributors bring their lived experience as listeners in, to, and alongside the communities whose praxes they surface in chapters that enrich and complicate the deep interrelationship of listening and storytelling. Affirming that storytelling is the vessel through which community listening is made, unmade, and remade, the stories in this collection probe what it means to listen from community vantages and to bring such listening into academic conversations. Collectively, the contributors to this multidisciplinary collection advance scholarship that has community as the locus of iterative knowledge seeking and sharing.