ABSTRACTHow do we methodologically map scalar relations of knowledge and the carceral colonial repressions they encounter and refuse? One possibility is to listen. Drawing on one ethnographic vignette from inside a state‐identified girls' prison school, this reflection privileges sound as a subject, a practice, and an analytic in ethnographic inquiry, inviting us to consider what we might hear in the quiet, unspectacular, quotidian of violence, its hushed rebuttal, and its low‐frequency refusals.