Listening to the Anthropocene through the sounds of plantations

Industrial plantations have organized whole new ecologies, transforming economies and social relations, and exacerbating issues of racial oppression, wealth inequality, and armed violence. 

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This panel explores what the sounds of plantations can tell us about our current geological epoch. What possibilities of life are possible at the edges of plantations and within them? What kinds of voices, human and other-than-human, emerge from these ecologies? What can we learn from them?

Speakers

Sophie Chao, University of Sydney
Of Sounds and Silence. Insights from a West Papuan Oil Palm Frontier.

Serena Stein, Wageningen University & Research 
Hemanth Tripathi, University of Leeds

Listening to Fragmentation in a Plantation-scape: Ethnographic and Ecological Reflections on Sound, Degradation, and Enclosure in northern Mozambique.

Discussant

Kregg Hetherington, Concordia University.

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