Listening to Gentrification: Finding Socially Just Ways to Listen to Our Environments Together

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Abstract

This chapter is an experiment in participatory listening research. Based on a methodology adapted for Covid-19 remote research, I ask the following: can we listen to gentrification together through the medium of a book chapter? The reader is invited to take part in a series of listening exercises whilst I share findings from a doctoral research project investigating residential experiences of gentrification. This project used listening walks and listening at home activities, creative capture and elicitation techniques to reinvigorate our understandings of gentrification. It specifically looked at how gentrification-associated injustices are occurring at the seaside on the UK south coast. I draw on the work of sound artists, Pauline Oliveros (2005, Deep Listening: A Composer’s Sound Practice. Lincoln, Neb: iUniverse) and Dylan Robinson (2020, Hungry Listening Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press), to explore and embrace different listening experiences, practices, and positionalities. Examples of how research participants from this research project listened to gentrification are interwoven with questions to the reader about how gentrification might be resonating around us. I strive to find ways that we might listen reflectively together to our environments and thereby better understand and act on issues of social justice.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSonic Rebellions
Subtitle of host publicationSound & Social Justice
EditorsWanda Canton
PublisherRoutledge, Taylor & Francis
Chapter1
Pages14-44
Number of pages31
Edition1
ISBN (Electronic)9781003361046
ISBN (Print)9781032420622, 9781032420660
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 29 Apr 2024

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 selection and editorial matter, Wanda Canton; individual chapters, the contributors.

Keywords

  • sound
  • music
  • social justice
  • listening
  • gentrification

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