Re‐hearing parents as risks to children: Institutional listening practices in a California child welfare court

Building on scholarship on the politics of listening and the listening subject, this article proposes re‐hearing as a listening practice where empowered actors assert that various qualities of personhood are hearable or perceivable in relation to what marginalized persons say, do, or are otherwise a...

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Published in:	Journal of linguistic anthropology Vol. 34; no. 3; pp. 420 - 440
Main Author:	López‐Espino, Jessica
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Washington Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.12.2024
Subjects:	Case management Child welfare Children Courts Ethnographic research Ethnography ideologies Ideology Institution building Judges & magistrates law and language Legal language Listening listening institutions Low income groups Marginality Parent-child relations Parents & parenting Personhood Social workers Surveillance Tribunals & commissions United States > US California
ISSN:	1055-1360, 1548-1395
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