RT Article
T1 Nationalist Soundscapes: the Sonic Violence of the Far Right
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 65
IS 1
SP 147
OP 162
A1 Gillespie, Liam
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1916390056
AB Sound’s ability to impact the body and cross borders places it firmly within the remit of criminological concern. However, although sound continually emerges as a feature of far-right protests and riots—including through music, chants, singing, yelling and drumming—the role it fulfils for the far right has gone untheorized. To address this gap, this article introduces the concept of ‘nationalist soundscapes’, which describes the mechanisms through which far-right nationalists deploy sound to effectuate a politics of power, domination and nationalist superiority. Referencing a selection of events, I argue nationalists weaponize sound in a way that is unique to them, insofar as nationalist soundscapes are deployed to assert ownership over the nation, while simultaneously displacing racialized others through sonic violence.
K1 Protest
K1 Riots
K1 the far right
K1 Racism
K1 Nationalism
K1 sensory criminology
K1 Sound
DO 10.1093/bjc/azae046