Ivo Louro co-edita Special Issue da revista "Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia"

A mais recente edição da revista Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia, vol.10 n.º1, é um special issue co-editado por Ivo Louro, doutorando do CIUHCT, com um dossiê dedicado ao Antropoceno Sónico – Práticas Sonoras para um Ambiente em Mudança. Este procura colocar o som como conceito central de uma conversa interdisciplinar sobre os processos económicos, sociais, culturais, políticos e ecológicos que potenciam as atuais transformações planetárias. 

Margarida Mendes (CRA, Goldsmiths College), Daniel Paiva (INET-md, NOVA FCSH) e Iñigo Sánchez-Fuarros (Incipit, CSIC; INET-md, NOVA FCSH) são os restantes co-editores deste dossiê especial.

Resumo (em inglês)

The introduction to this double issue entitled “A Sonic Anthropocene: Sound Practices in a Changing Environment” explores some of the concepts and methodological issues that inform our understanding of what we call the “Sonic Anthropocene”. We argue that incorporating practices of listening and aural documentation that register the transformations in the acoustic landscape creates a space of potential for examining the increasing impact of human activity on the environment. This introduction is divided into six sections. First, we provide an overview of the notion of the Anthropocene. Secondly, we explore the relationship between sound, environment and perception as cultivated by different strands of scholarship. Thirdly, we discuss the capacity of ethnography to generate new insights into the conditions of life in the Anthropocene. With this in mind, we highlight various examples of collaboration between environmental sound artists, researchers, and activists. Lastly, we introduce the essays included in this first volume. Ultimately, this double issue seeks to contribute toward sounding the Anthropocene by placing sound at the centre of an interdisciplinary conversation about the economic, social, cultural, political and ecological processes that underlie the currently ongoing planetary transformations.