RT Article
T1 Counter-carceral acoustemologies: Sound, permeability and feminist protest at the prison boundary
JF Theoretical criminology
VO 24
IS 2
SP 296
OP 313
A1 Russell, Emma K. 1986-
A2 Carlton, Bree
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1734904348
AB This article provides an analysis of sonic protest strategies used by anti-carceral feminist coalitions in Melbourne, Australia. Our research demonstrates that sound is a particularly powerful boundary-crosser that can challenge the exclusionary spatial ordering of the prison. Under certain political and geographical conditions, the carceral soundscape, which increasingly restricts ‘who gets to hear what’, can be temporarily breached, altered and re-made by protest noise, rhythm and music, and radio technology. Counter-carceral acoustemologies create alternative ‘soundtracks’ of resistance that both reveal and momentarily displace carceral-spatial control, re-patterning the aural environment of the prison. Such breaches can be countered, however, by various modes of boundary fortification over time. We propose that a more nuanced understanding of carceral space and soundscapes—as relational and in flux—provides greater opportunities for denaturalizing the prison and challenging its seeming permanence in our political and cultural landscapes.
K1 Abolition
K1 Anti-carceral feminism
K1 Carceral space
K1 Permeability
K1 Resistance
K1 Social movements
K1 Sonic criminology
K1 Sound
K1 Women in prison
DO 10.1177/1362480618769862