"Hey You, Geographer!" As John Mowitt has observed, Althusser's famous anecdote about the policeman and the civilian crucially positions the latter as facing away from the law before turning to meet the address. The act of interpellation is spatial, but resolutely sonic as well. This discussion considers how power operates through shifting sound-space relations. State and private sector practices of spatial control through sonic manipulation affect a widening array of social processes today -- from shopping and home security to crowd control and inter-species conduct. The sound-space coupling yields rich materials for geographers (and others) looking at operations of security, discipline, and environmental control. This panel will gather scholars working from different backgrounds, armed with different methodological approaches. Together, we intend to unsettle some of the assumptions social scientists typically make of sound -- what Jonathan Sterne dubs the "audio-visual litany" -- and advance a critical agenda for a more robust sonic politics.
Deadline for interested parties: October 13, 2011!
Presentations may address, but should not be limited to questions about:
● Social movements/activism and vocalization technologies
● CEPTED
● Music and torture
● Non-human actors in acoustic communication
● Weaponization of Sound
● Noise and Political Economy
● Spiritualities of listening
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Cheers,
Max
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