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CP434


Voicing places 
Convenors:
Michaela Spencer (Charles Darwin University)
Endre Dányi (University of the Bundeswehr Munich)
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Format:
Closed Panel
Location:
HG-15A33
Sessions:
Thursday 18 July, -, -
Time zone: Europe/Amsterdam

Long Abstract:

It may be tempting to read ‘voicing’ as an attempt to give voice to places, to make them talk and thereby integrate them into a particular understanding of politics – one that works through speeches and arguments and carries an emancipatory impulse. But here our intention is different: the ‘voicing’ we have in mind is closer to sounding a musical instrument, to hearing and responding to harmonies and discordances. What might it mean to inhabit places in this way, and what might that mean for our scholarly methods and analyses? In this panel we aim to bring together a series of empirical stories that foreground our methods as arising in specific places and finding a resonance between such places and various attempts to know and govern them. Understood in this way, ‘voicing places’ requires learning, making mistakes, being clumsy, but also becoming proficient. It sensitises us to the difference between speeches and cries, grunts and gurgles, vibrations and silences embedded in sites (such as rivers and waterways, farmlands, data centres, councils and ceremonies). Through attention to multiple senses of voicing, our proposal expresses a methodological sensibility to the various ways in which places ‘are,’ and explores STS dispositions by which we may participate carefully, and lyrically, within their making and doing (as a politics).

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Thursday 18 July, 2024, -
Session 2 Thursday 18 July, 2024, -