[Linganth] Sonic Socialism in two weeks

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
I am so pleased to announce that the CaMP reading group is starting up
again this year with Christina Schwenkel  as the featured author on
August 28th-- beginning at *noon,* ending at 1 pm  east coast time.

She has asked us to read Act 3. Please read as much as you can, but do feel
free to join us even if you haven't managed to read everything.

The reading can be found here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w8-n9Tl5UaigrhgeQJo5fikDYKAry8ji/view?usp=sharing


For readers who would like to access the audio and audiovisual files within
the text itself (rather than through QR codes), I would suggest they read
or download the Open Access version of the ePub directly through Luminos:
https://luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.249


The meeting will be in two weeks and can be reached by clicking on this
Zoom link:

  https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698 <https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698>

If you want to see the full line-up for this year, you can find it here:
https://campanthropology.org/virtual-reading-group/

Looking forward to seeing you all virtually,

Ilana

Press blurb:  In an era dominated by visual information, what can the
sounds of a pandemic reveal about crisis and care? How might attuning to
sonic atmospheres uncover new dimensions to states of emergency and their
implications for collective life? In *Sonic Socialism*, Christina Schwenkel
examines the use of sound in COVID-19 response efforts in urban Vietnam.
Based on "soundwork" conducted in Hanoi in 2020 during the pandemic's first
year, she shows how acoustic technologies played a pivotal yet overlooked
role in state efforts to achieve record-low infection rates worldwide.
Across lived experiences of quarantine, lockdown, and spatial distancing,
Schwenkel explores sound-based interventions to curb virus transmission,
and the public's response to these auditory measures. From instant
messaging alerts to public health videos and neighborhood loudspeakers,
sonic governance sought to transform urban sounds and listening practices
to mobilize action, drawing people into networks of care and control. As
anthropology stands at a crossroads, *Sonic Socialism* makes the compelling
case for the value of sensory autoethnography in reimagining a more careful
and caring ethnographic practice in a post-pandemic world.
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