FYI—I am forwarding this CFP on behalf of my colleague Theresa Harada, University of Wollongong, Australia.
Martin

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Call for papers  

Contributions are invited for a special issue on ‘emotional geographies of sound’ for Emotion, Space and Society, edited by Karolina Doughty (University of Brighton, UK), Michelle Duffy (Federation University, AU) and Theresa Harada (University of Wollongong, AU).
This proposal for a special issue on the ‘emotional geographies of sound’, in the journal Emotion, Space and Society, reflects the growing scholarship that investigates the role of sound in understandings of self, others and place. Attending to sound is not new (Aitkenson 2007; Anderson 2009; Bull 2000; Smith 1999 2000; Thibaud 2003). However, using sound as a tool to understand the connections between affective and emotional bodies and wider discursive social practices remains under-examined. 

The aim of the special issue is to provide insights into the ways that music and sound provide affective and emotional textures to everyday experiences and how this knowledge might add to contemporary theoretical and empirical understandings of geographic practice and open opportunities to go beyond discursive readings of sound practices and sonic engagements more generally. 

In light of this objective we propose three main areas for papers to address: Firstly, the creative potential of sound for producing spaces of conviviality and social inclusion. We want to suggest that exploring urban public life through an engagement with different modalities of sound highlights the creative potential of sound geographies for understanding and creating different encounters with the city. Secondly, we suggest an attention to the affordances of the affective qualities of sound. Rather than sound as a taken-for-granted and largely overlooked background to everyday life, we encourage an exploration of the way that sound constitutes material and discursive spaces. Thirdly, we suggest addressing the methodological possibilities and challenges of attending to an exploration of sound geographies. In line with the recent theoretical arguments around the conceptualization of mobile bodies and embodied practices scholars are increasingly focused on the movement and intensities of affect and emotion that are experienced through bodies. Yet empirical research practices have yet to develop additional or alternative methodologies to address the challenges of this recent theoretical shift. 

We invite contributions from across the social sciences that engage with emotional geographies of sound.

Contributions can be empirical or theoretical and include, but are not limited to:
•	sound and emotional geographies;
•	sound and affective spaces;
•	sound and embodiment;
•	the politics of sound;
•	sound atmospheres;
•	sound as performative or as performance;
•	methodological challenges and opportunities;
•	sound and non-representational geographies;
•	sound and representation or representational sound;
•	sound and mobility or mobilities of sound;
•	sound and belonging;
•	sound and conviviality and inclusion;
•	sound and cosmopolitanism;
•	sound and diversity;
•	sound and nationalism;
•	sound and social movements

Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words to Karolina Doughty, [log in to unmask], Michelle Duffy, [log in to unmask] or Theresa Harada, [log in to unmask] by 10 February.