Listening to community

The aural dimensions of neighbouring

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3568227
AutoresC Lewis (0000-0001-8137-4802, University of Manchester, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen68
Número1
Páginas94-109
Fecha de publicación2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0038026119853944
OpenAlexW2947841691
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14
Referencias citadas18

This article examines the multisensory nature of everyday life and the ways in which sound shapes experiences of community, presenting findings from a research project, 'Place and belonging: What can we learn from Claremont Court housing scheme?' Whilst acknowledging the multisensory nature of perception, the discussion focuses on sound in particular, exploring the different ways that sound (or lack of it) informed residents' neighbouring practices and sense of community. Despite general fears of 'loss of community' due to increasing individualisation, the findings show the continued importance of neighbouring relations, which point to varied types of community attachment. Cases are presented from the data focusing on the themes of nostalgia, uncertainty and feelings of difference. These themes provide telling insights into the ways in which community is experienced and how people living in the same housing scheme interpret sounds differently. All residents were exposed to similar sound ecologies, but their significance and meanings were understood in vastly different ways. The article offers an original contribution by arguing that sound is an important dimension of everyday life in urban settings, which is related to affective and emotional dimensions of community, which have, as yet, been glossed over in the sociological literature

Acoustics · Active listening · Aesthetics · Dimension (graph theory · Epistemology · Everyday life · Feeling · Perception · Sociology · Sound (geography · Communication · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Music History and Culture · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts