on
sound and hearing. I use examples from ethnographic fieldwork in a primary school to
illustrate the spatiality of sonic power. In so doing, I contribute both to the understanding
of schools as spaces of institutional power, and to recent literature on geographies of
sound and music.
Key words: sound, space, power, school, surveillance.
A portrait
I live close to a primary school. When
children are in the school’s playground, the
noise that they make is clearly audible if my
windows are open. On…
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