How is space made in sound? Spatial mediation, critical phenomenology and the political agency of sound

Revill, George

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“…Furthermore, this article also chimes with ongoing debates beyond children's geographies: first, on soundscapes and audio cultures in cultural and historical geography (e.g. Anderson et al 2005;Lorimer 2007;Peters 2011;Revill 2016); and second, research by historians on childhood, memory and archives (Stearns 2008;Tesar 2015;Gleason 2016) as well as sensory histories of education (Burke and Grosvenor 2011;Goodman, 2016).…”

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“…However, a number of cultural geographers have recently discussed the 'geography of voice' that focuses on the politics of listening / speaking (Gallagher, Kanngieser and Prior 2016;Kanngieser 2012;Bennett et al 2015) as well as exploring music in different contexts (e.g. Anderson et al 2005), sound (Lorimer 2007), radio cultures (Peters 2011), sonic geographies (Matless 2005), the spatial distinctiveness of sound (Revill 2016) and its emotional and affective geographies (Doughty, Duffy and Harada, 2016). In this article, I consider the difference audio material makes to ideas about children's voice and the qualities and characteristics of (past) sound that, as hinted earlier, shape representations of childhood and the re-telling (or re-hearing) of children's experiences.…”

Section: Exploring Voice and Memory: Geographies Of Childhood Sound mentioning

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Voice: sonic geographies of childhood

Mills

2017

Children's Geographies

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Section: Exploring Voice and Memory: Geographies Of Childhood Sound mentioning

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Voice: sonic geographies of childhood

Mills

2017

Children's Geographies

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“…von Humboldt (1850), in his descriptions of natural geographic processes, sporadically made reference to the sounds of places, as Malanski (2017) notes. However, the first geographer to have published a study of sound in geography seems to be Granö (1929), with a cartographic study on the sounds of the island of Valosaari in Finland, as Pocock (1989) and Revill (2016) refer. Beyond this contribution, the studies of the paradigm of regional geography have privileged the visual study of landscape.…”

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“…Affect theory (e.g. Massumi 2002;Clough 2007;Gregg & Seigworth 2010) has also been significant for conceptual advances focused on the atmospheric and affective nuances of sonic environments such as Kanngieser's (2012) and Revill's (2016).…”

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“…For this reason, while there have been significant theorisations of sound in geography in the last years (Gallagher & Prior 2014;Doughty et al 2016;Revill 2016;Gallagher et al 2017), there is still no significant discussion to how sound has been conceived throughout the discipline's history. In order to tackle this issue, in this article, I approach the different conceptions of sound -and its relations to the underlying scientific paradigms -that emerged through the history of geography.…”

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Dissonance: scientific paradigms underpinning the study of sound in geography

Paiva

2018

Fennia

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The objective of this article is to approach the different conceptions of sound -and its relations to the underlying scientific paradigms -that emerged throughout the history of geography. There has been a growing interest among geographers in understanding the spatialities of sound, and geographies of sound have become an emerging subfield of the discipline. For this reason, it is the right time to address how the discipline has approached sound throughout its history. Several theoretical perspectives influenced geography in the twentieth century, changing its methodologies and how its subjects were conceived. Sound, like other subjects, has been conceived very differently by geographers of competing paradigms. Concepts such as noise, soundscape, or sound as affect, among others, have dominated geographies of sound at specific periods. Due to the marginality of the subject in the discipline, assessments of these conceptual shifts are rare. I tackle this issue in this article as I provide a first attempt of writing a history of sound in geography. The article reviews debates regarding the name of the subfield, and the conceptions of sound in the successive and competing scientific paradigms in geography.

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Artful climate change communication: overcoming abstractions, insensibilities, and distances

Hawkins

Kanngieser

2017

WIREs Climate Change

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This article considers how visual and sonic art creates encounters through which audiences can experience climate change. Building on reviews published in WIREs Climate Change on images, films, drama, climate science fiction, and other literary forms, we examine how audio and visual art addresses the enduring problems of climate change communication. We begin with three of these problems: climate change's often abstract nature, the distances in time and space between those who cause climate change and the places its effects are felt, and forms of human–environmental relations that shape how climate is understood. We reflect on how, through a combination of vision and sound, art creates sensory experiences that tackle these challenges. In querying how our artistic examples bring about environmental engagements, we combine an analysis of the representations and narratives of these works with an appreciation of their aesthetic form—in short, how these art pieces activate emotional and experiential responses. While we recognize the limits of what art can do, especially the gallery‐based forms of work we study here, we argue that spending time exploring the encounters that art creates helps us to understand what it brings to the communication of climate change. It also demonstrates how lessons learnt about sensory experience, affect, and emotions might be more widely applied to the analysis of cultural forms—from literature to films—and their role in climate change communication. WIREs Clim Change 2017, 8:e472. doi: 10.1002/wcc.472 This article is categorized under: Trans‐Disciplinary Perspectives > Humanities and the Creative Arts

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How is space made in sound? Spatial mediation, critical phenomenology and the political agency of sound

Abstract: How is space made in sound? Spatial mediation, critical phenomenology and the political agency of sound.

Cited by 102 publications

References 62 publications

Voice: sonic geographies of childhood

Voice: sonic geographies of childhood

Dissonance: scientific paradigms underpinning the study of sound in geography

Artful climate change communication: overcoming abstractions, insensibilities, and distances

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