Dear all,
a brief reminder of the below CfP for our session at the upcoming RGS-IBG Annual International Conference in London (29 August to 1 September 2023). We hope you consider joining our session and look forward to receiving your abstracts by 24th February 2023.
Best wishes
Sandra, Hannah and Jonathan
Call for papers: The technologies, politics, and cultures of animal sound recordings
Session organisers: Jonathan Prior (Cardiff University); Hannah Hunter (Queen's University, Ontario); Sandra Jasper (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
The scientific study of animal communication through sound, termed bioacoustics, arose during the latter half of the 20th century, and is now being positioned at the forefront of conservation efforts, through its ability to monitor animal populations via the production of large acoustic data sets across time and space. This has only intensified with the advent of autonomous recording units, which do not require a human to monitor ongoing recording. Animal sound recordings, and animal sound archives, have proliferated alongside these developments, capturing the attention and imagination of natural scientists, sound recordists, archivists, and sound artists alike. This session is spurred on by these developments, and recent interventions in the social sciences and humanities that interrogate bioacoustic sciences (Ritts and Bakker, 2021; Vallee, 2017), the relationships between recording technologies, animal sounds, and cultures of listening (e.g. Bronfman, 2017; Bruyninckx, 2019; Hui, 2022), as well as broader discussions regarding the ethics and politics of field recording (Gallagher, 2015; Robinson, 2020; Peter Wright, 2022).
This session invites proposals that consider the technologies and techniques used to produce and consume animal sound recordings, the politics and ethics of these processes and outcomes, as well as the cultures of listening that such sound recordings engender. We particularly encourage papers that respond to the following topics:
- Field and studio technologies and techniques of recording animal sounds
- The ethics, aesthetics, and politics of producing and consuming animal sound recordings
- The practices and processes of archiving, transmitting, and circulating animal sounds
- The histories and geographies of animal sound recording
- Anti-colonial, feminist, or justice-orientated approaches to the recording or study of animal sounds
- The relationship of animal sound recording and other collecting and curation practices (e.g. salvage ethnography, natural history specimen collection, photography)
- The use of animal sound recordings in museums, artworks, film, TV, radio, digital media, and public space
- The recording and consumption of animal sounds in relation to conservation, climate change, and extinction
It is anticipated that the session will be run as a series of 15-minute presentations.
Please email proposals (title, 250 word abstract, and author details) to Jonathan Prior ([log in to unmask]), Hannah Hunter ([log in to unmask]), and Sandra Jasper ([log in to unmask]), by 24th February 2023.
References
Bronfman, A. (2017). Sonic colour zones: Laura Boulton and the hunt for music. Sound Studies, 3 (1): 17-32.
Bruyninckx, J. (2019) For science, broadcasting, and conservation: Wildlife recording, the BBC, and the consolidation of a British Library of Wildlife Sounds. Technology and Culture, 60 (2): S188-S215.
Gallagher, M. (2015) Field recording and the sounding of spaces. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 33 (3): 560–576.
Hui, A. (2022) Listening to extinction: Early conservation radio sounds and the silences of species. The American Historical Review, 126 (4): 1371–1395.
Peter Wright, M. (2022) Listening After Nature: Field Recording, Ecology, Critical Practice. London: Bloomsbury.
Ritts, M. and Bakker, K. (2021) Conservation acoustics: Animal sounds, audible natures, cheap nature. Geoforum, 124: 144–55.
Robinson, D. (2020) Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Vallee, M. (2017) The Science of Listening in Bioacoustics Research: Sensing the Animals' Sounds. Theory, Culture & Society, 35 (2): 47-65.
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