Audializing migrant bodies

Sound and security at the border

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12301547
AutoresMichelle D Weitzel (0000-0002-3459-4439, New School for Social Research ,, autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Volumen49
Número6
Páginas421-437
Fecha de publicación2018-09-21
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSecurity Dialogue (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0967-0106 • E-ISSN: 1460-3640
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0967010618795788
OpenAlexW2891185185
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas20
Referencias citadas29

Sound represents a salient yet rarely examined counterpoint to visuality and materiality in security, international bordering, and mobility literature. Using the context of sub-Saharan African migration as grounding for empirical analysis and drawing on fieldwork conducted in Morocco in 2015 and 2016, this article lays the foundation for a research agenda that understands voice, and the sonic body more broadly, as mechanisms of political power. In examining the central roles that sound, hearing, and voice play in strategies of individual resistance at border crossings, as well as in state, private, and transnational communication and surveillance regimes, it attends to the ways in which sound and the audialized body reconfigure power relations, and structure mobility and personal identity. This analysis contributes to the growing literature addressing biometric borders and the deterritorialization of security practices, and argues that sound, along with more familiar nodes of securitization, constitutes a critical site of governmentality and therefore of ethical and moral negotiation

Aesthetics · Context (archaeology · Deterritorialization · Governmentality · Identity (music · Materiality (auditing · Militarization · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Sound (geography · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Global Security and Public Health · History · Law · Migration and Exile Studies