Project description
Exploring sonic dimensions of energy transitions in rural communities
Up to now, efforts to address, adapt and mitigate the climate crisis are leading to increasingly diverse social and economic changes. Amid this change, it is crucial to understand our relationship with energy. The field of energy humanities has explored the ways societies have perceived and conceptualised energy in a variety of contexts; however, it has not examined their sonic dimensions. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the SonErg project will research the impact of both previous and current energy transitions on rural communities and how their sound practices showcase alternative perceptions and insights. The project will explore rural communities in southern Italy, utilising a multi-method approach to analyse their culture and history.
Objective
Amid the accelerating climate crisis, developing new ways of understanding our relationship with energy is essential. The field of Energy Humanities has foregrounded energy epistemologies - how societies perceive and conceptualise energy within cultural, political, and historical contexts - but their sonic dimensions remain critically underexplored. This project addresses this gap by investigating the sonic impact of past and present energy transitions, revealing how rural communities’ sound practices encode alternative conceptions of energy and generate novel insights into overlooked epistemologies in Southern Italy. Adopting a transdisciplinary approach that bridges Energy Humanities, Ethnomusicology, and Social Theory, the project analyses how artisans and performers of traditional woodwind instruments embody non-modern energy epistemologies - organic systems and material practices attentive to non-human agency - which underpin their subtle forms of resistance and adaptation to energy infrastructural change. A multi-method strategy combining environmental and energy history, discourse analysis, ethnography, and sound studies will illuminate how successive energy transitions have transformed both instrument-making and sonic practices across rural areas of Southern Italy. Findings will be disseminated through scientific papers, a travelling art exhibition and a long-standing interactive website, maximising public and scholarly engagement while creating a lasting cultural resource. The Institute of Ethnomusicology at NOVA University of Lisbon offers world-leading expertise to support the project’s innovative scope and impact. The project will decisively reinforce the fellow's trajectory toward academic leadership and groundbreaking research in the Energy Humanities.
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- humanities history and archaeology history
- humanities arts musicology ethnomusicology
- humanities languages and literature linguistics phonetics
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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1099-085 Lisboa
Portugal
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