Descripción del proyecto
La agencia sónica en el debate sobre el cambio climático
La noción antropológica del sonido, conocida como «agencia sónica», recoge las prácticas sonoras tanto de los pueblos indígenas que abordan los problemas medioambientales como de los activistas climáticos urbanos. En el proyecto Sounding Crisis, financiado con fondos europeos, se investigará el concepto de agencia sónica dentro del debate sobre el cambio climático como un conocimiento alternativo de las «energías». El equipo del proyecto llevará a cabo una investigación innovadora sobre las ondas sonoras como energía mecánica, las prácticas sonoras de los activistas climáticos urbanos como articulaciones del llamado «inconsciente energético» y ejemplos urbanos de la noción indígena de «intimidad energética» en Australia, Dinamarca y Groenlandia. Sounding Crisis desvelará las continuidades y variaciones de diferentes formas de agencia sónica en una perspectiva sincrónica y diacrónica, refiriéndose a los movimientos históricos de protesta.
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In the face of climate crisis, my project researches the concept of ‘Sonic Agency’ within climate change discourse as an alternative knowledge of ‘energies’. In contrast to the concept of ‘energy’ in sources and systems of fuel and power generation, I understand ‘energies’ as ‘multi-faceted and interrelated phenomena that emit sound and can be listened to in productive ways’. ‘Sonic agency’ is defined as ‘acoustic as well as electronically amplified and transmitted sounds as levers to the senses and creators of potential change’. This anthropological notion of sound encompasses both the sound practices of Indigenous peoples addressing environmental issues as well as urban climate activism and its sound practices across all the sites in which it may be present, such as classical media reports, the a/v in social media, music and street protests, artistic expressions and new techniques and practices. The aim is to unveil the continuities and variations of different forms of ‘sonic agency’. The project is innovative in its understanding of ‘sound’ as an analytical point of access to the complex concept of ‘energies’. It understands sound itself as energies in three ways: (1) Sound waves as mechanical energy, (2) sound practices of urban climate activists as articulations of the so-called ‘energy unconscious’ and (3) as urban examples of the Indigenous’ notion of ‘energy intimacy’. The project will have a synchronic and diachronic perspective, as it also will refer to historic protest movements and the role of ‘sonic agency’ within them. Thus, it aims to provide new insights for enhancing the terminology, methods and theories of Sound Studies and for re-thinking the Western concept of ‘energy’. It combines in an innovative way the two novel approaches of Anthropology of Sound and Sound & Energy Studies to further elaborate the concept of ‘Sonic Agency’ and therefore contributes to the emerging field of Energy Humanities.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinador
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