Poppy De Souza
Biographic Data
| ID | 3721175 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Poppy De Souza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Poppy |
| FAMILY NAME | De Souza |
| SIGNATURE | DE SOUZA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4958-9146 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Making public or quiet listening? Media logics and public inquiries into the abuse of children
This article examines the tensions between 'publicness' and 'privacy' in national commissions of inquiry. Through the insights of those who worked deep inside Australia's landmark Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (RCIRCSA, 2013-2017), and the evidence provided in its final report, we explore the organisational and media logics of the Commission's highly publicised public hearings, and the 'quiet' institutional l…
‘Holding Breath’: Listening, care and connection across thresholds of experience in the wake of pandemic grief
This paper reflects on ‘Holding Breath’, an ongoing project, to consider ethical and methodological questions at the heart of its conceptualization and development. Conceived as a co-creative and collective, community-based sound project, the goal was to explore creative possibilities for collective listening, witnessing, care and connection in the wake of pandemic grief (and beyond). In the first stage of the project (the focus of this paper), t…
Soundmapping hotel detention
During August 2020, amid Australia’s COVID-19-driven external border closures and internal border restrictions, the Manus Recording Project Collective (hereafter: the Collective) produced the sound project, where are you today (wayt).1 The project was a collaboration between six asylum seekers detained in hotels or immigration detention centres across Australia and Papua New Guinea, and three writers/radio-makers in Melbourne.2 Each day, for 30-c…
Resistance, reclamation and repair: The Parragirls feminist archive and reparative media practices in the wake of institutional harm and media damage
This paper engages with the creative strategies and media interventions of the Parragirls—a lose collective of women subject to punitive confinement and abuse as children in out-of-home “care” at the former Parramatta Girls Home—as a feminist archive of collective resistance, reclamation, and repair in the wake of institutional harm and media damage. We consider the Parragirls feminist archive in the context of a larger project analysing the role…
Counter-mapping the mobile border: Racial surveillance and data justice in spaces of disappearance
Following significant social and legal challenges to Australia's colonial policy of 'offshoring' immigration detention, the system has become more mobile and diffuse, expanding through a range of new, ad-hoc, and established detention sites both 'on' and 'offshore'. Refugees, asylum seekers and other non-citizens are frequently transferred and dispersed between these sites, which form 'spaces of disappearance'. In this article, we draw upon conce…
Sensing the border(s): Sound and carceral intimacies in and beyond indefinite detention
This article examines a sound-based digital project co-created with refugees and asylum seekers held in indefinite detention in Australia and Papua New Guinea to advance understandings of the sensory violence of borders – and resistance to borders – and their reordering of intimate realms. In where are you today (2020), refugees/asylum seekers catalogued their carceral environments in 10-minute sonic vignettes which were distributed to listeners …
Beyond the Horizon of the State: Listening to offshore detention’s longue durée
From the ‘stop the boats’ rhetoric of Operation Sovereign Borders to #KidsoffNauru and #BringThemHere to the 2018 Migration Amendment Bill (or ‘Medevac’ bill)—legal, discursive and temporal logics of crisis are used to both defend Australia’s border regime in the name of state securitisation and appeal to humanist calls for empathy and compassion. Yet the logic of crisis both obscures the ‘long emergencies of slow violence’ (Nixon, 2011) of the s…
I’d Double Tap That!!’: Street art, graffiti, and Instagram research
Recent scholarship into the uses of social media has opened up productive ways of thinking about the dynamic relationship between user-generated content and new forms of sociality and social practice. However, compared with Twitter and Facebook, the photo- and video-sharing platform Instagram has received relatively little scholarly attention. Instagram is only the latest in a complex media history that has shaped a range of social practices, inc…
What does racial (in)justice sound like? On listening, acoustic violence and the booing of Adam Goodes
At the height of public debate surrounding the sustained booing of Indigenous AFL footballer Adam Goodes between 2013 and 2015, several media commentators routinely misheard the roar of the crowd as nothing other than acceptable social behaviour. To ears invested in the established order, the distinction between a 'boo' and a 'boo' is non-existent; to racialized others, like Adam Goodes, hearing the difference - and calling it out - is an act of …
I’d Double Tap That!!’: Street art, graffiti, and Instagram research
Recent scholarship into the uses of social media has opened up productive ways of thinking about the dynamic relationship between user-generated content and new forms of sociality and social practice. However, compared with Twitter and Facebook, the photo- and video-sharing platform Instagram has received relatively little scholarly attention. Instagram is only the latest in a complex media history that has shaped a range of social practices, inc…
Sensing the border(s): Sound and carceral intimacies in and beyond indefinite detention
This article examines a sound-based digital project co-created with refugees and asylum seekers held in indefinite detention in Australia and Papua New Guinea to advance understandings of the sensory violence of borders – and resistance to borders – and their reordering of intimate realms. In where are you today (2020), refugees/asylum seekers catalogued their carceral environments in 10-minute sonic vignettes which were distributed to listeners …
What does racial (in)justice sound like? On listening, acoustic violence and the booing of Adam Goodes
At the height of public debate surrounding the sustained booing of Indigenous AFL footballer Adam Goodes between 2013 and 2015, several media commentators routinely misheard the roar of the crowd as nothing other than acceptable social behaviour. To ears invested in the established order, the distinction between a 'boo' and a 'boo' is non-existent; to racialized others, like Adam Goodes, hearing the difference - and calling it out - is an act of …
Counter-mapping the mobile border: Racial surveillance and data justice in spaces of disappearance
Following significant social and legal challenges to Australia's colonial policy of 'offshoring' immigration detention, the system has become more mobile and diffuse, expanding through a range of new, ad-hoc, and established detention sites both 'on' and 'offshore'. Refugees, asylum seekers and other non-citizens are frequently transferred and dispersed between these sites, which form 'spaces of disappearance'. In this article, we draw upon conce…
Resistance, reclamation and repair: The Parragirls feminist archive and reparative media practices in the wake of institutional harm and media damage
This paper engages with the creative strategies and media interventions of the Parragirls—a lose collective of women subject to punitive confinement and abuse as children in out-of-home “care” at the former Parramatta Girls Home—as a feminist archive of collective resistance, reclamation, and repair in the wake of institutional harm and media damage. We consider the Parragirls feminist archive in the context of a larger project analysing the role…
I’d Double Tap That!!’: Street art, graffiti, and Instagram research
Recent scholarship into the uses of social media has opened up productive ways of thinking about the dynamic relationship between user-generated content and new forms of sociality and social practice. However, compared with Twitter and Facebook, the photo- and video-sharing platform Instagram has received relatively little scholarly attention. Instagram is only the latest in a complex media history that has shaped a range of social practices, inc…
What does racial (in)justice sound like? On listening, acoustic violence and the booing of Adam Goodes
At the height of public debate surrounding the sustained booing of Indigenous AFL footballer Adam Goodes between 2013 and 2015, several media commentators routinely misheard the roar of the crowd as nothing other than acceptable social behaviour. To ears invested in the established order, the distinction between a 'boo' and a 'boo' is non-existent; to racialized others, like Adam Goodes, hearing the difference - and calling it out - is an act of …
Beyond the Horizon of the State: Listening to offshore detention’s longue durée
From the ‘stop the boats’ rhetoric of Operation Sovereign Borders to #KidsoffNauru and #BringThemHere to the 2018 Migration Amendment Bill (or ‘Medevac’ bill)—legal, discursive and temporal logics of crisis are used to both defend Australia’s border regime in the name of state securitisation and appeal to humanist calls for empathy and compassion. Yet the logic of crisis both obscures the ‘long emergencies of slow violence’ (Nixon, 2011) of the s…
Sensing the border(s): Sound and carceral intimacies in and beyond indefinite detention
This article examines a sound-based digital project co-created with refugees and asylum seekers held in indefinite detention in Australia and Papua New Guinea to advance understandings of the sensory violence of borders – and resistance to borders – and their reordering of intimate realms. In where are you today (2020), refugees/asylum seekers catalogued their carceral environments in 10-minute sonic vignettes which were distributed to listeners …
Soundmapping hotel detention
During August 2020, amid Australia’s COVID-19-driven external border closures and internal border restrictions, the Manus Recording Project Collective (hereafter: the Collective) produced the sound project, where are you today (wayt).1 The project was a collaboration between six asylum seekers detained in hotels or immigration detention centres across Australia and Papua New Guinea, and three writers/radio-makers in Melbourne.2 Each day, for 30-c…
Resistance, reclamation and repair: The Parragirls feminist archive and reparative media practices in the wake of institutional harm and media damage
This paper engages with the creative strategies and media interventions of the Parragirls—a lose collective of women subject to punitive confinement and abuse as children in out-of-home “care” at the former Parramatta Girls Home—as a feminist archive of collective resistance, reclamation, and repair in the wake of institutional harm and media damage. We consider the Parragirls feminist archive in the context of a larger project analysing the role…
Counter-mapping the mobile border: Racial surveillance and data justice in spaces of disappearance
Following significant social and legal challenges to Australia's colonial policy of 'offshoring' immigration detention, the system has become more mobile and diffuse, expanding through a range of new, ad-hoc, and established detention sites both 'on' and 'offshore'. Refugees, asylum seekers and other non-citizens are frequently transferred and dispersed between these sites, which form 'spaces of disappearance'. In this article, we draw upon conce…
‘Holding Breath’: Listening, care and connection across thresholds of experience in the wake of pandemic grief
This paper reflects on ‘Holding Breath’, an ongoing project, to consider ethical and methodological questions at the heart of its conceptualization and development. Conceived as a co-creative and collective, community-based sound project, the goal was to explore creative possibilities for collective listening, witnessing, care and connection in the wake of pandemic grief (and beyond). In the first stage of the project (the focus of this paper), t…
Making public or quiet listening? Media logics and public inquiries into the abuse of children
This article examines the tensions between 'publicness' and 'privacy' in national commissions of inquiry. Through the insights of those who worked deep inside Australia's landmark Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (RCIRCSA, 2013-2017), and the evidence provided in its final report, we explore the organisational and media logics of the Commission's highly publicised public hearings, and the 'quiet' institutional l…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sex work and related issues (3 works) · Active listening (2 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works)