eprintid: 10112350
rev_number: 12
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datestamp: 2020-10-15 11:13:13
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type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Western, T
title: Listening with Displacement
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: A01
divisions: B03
divisions: C03
divisions: F26
keywords: Athens; citizenship; crisis; displacement; listening; representation; sound; voices
note: This is an open access article (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
abstract: This article puts sound at the center of migration. Auditory cultures develop in displacement, while sounds are enrolled in regimes of citizenship, playing a key—but unheard—role in debates about freedom of movement. These ideas are presented through research in Athens, Greece, where people assert sonic belonging in the face of denied asylum, racialized persecution, and EU border politics that play out in urban space. I argue for listening with displacement. Such practices can amplify the creativities of people crossing borders, disrupt normative narratives that present migration as a problem, and challenge representational practices that reify ideas of “refugee crisis.” Migration is a sonic process. Sounds are always moving, and can help us rethink society itself through movement.
date: 2020-06-01
date_type: published
publisher: Berghahn Books
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/arms.2020.030128
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1821516
doi: 10.3167/arms.2020.030128
lyricists_name: Western, Thomas
lyricists_id: TJWES12
actors_name: Flynn, Bernadette
actors_id: BFFLY94
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Migration and Society
volume: 3
number: 1
pagerange: 194-309
citation:        Western, T;      (2020)    Listening with Displacement.                   Migration and Society , 3  (1)   pp. 194-309.    10.3167/arms.2020.030128 <https://doi.org/10.3167/arms.2020.030128>.       Green open access   
 
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