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Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2023

Tainted frequencies: A sonic ethnography of the Étang de Berre

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Situated between Marseille and the Camargue nature reserve is a zone known as the Étang de Berre, taking its name from the sublime and enormous brackish lagoon that sits at its center. Over the last century, municipalities around the lagoon (Martigues, Fos-sur-mer, Saint-Chamas) along with the French government have invested heavily in petrochemical and energy industries making the area one of the most important economic hubs on one hand and an ecological sacrificial zone on the other. Anthropic impacts on this fragile ecosystem from air pollution and soil and water contamination have been only recently gaining attention. Human, plant, animal, and aquatic lifeworlds are entangled socially by these industrial toxins that are, for the most part, invisible and inaudible. How can we transmit these tainted, yet nearly imperceptible frequencies of this ethnographically complex territory? This sonic sensory ethnography attempts towards evoking these dilemmas and seeking out a way of sharing new kinds of anthropological knowledge.
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hal-04436518 , version 1 (03-02-2024)

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Jeff Daniel Silva. Tainted frequencies: A sonic ethnography of the Étang de Berre: Part of panel P24: Sonic Ethnography: Audio as medium to share fieldwork and as alternative presentation form beyond text/visuals. Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival 2023, Royal Anthropological Institute, Mar 2023, Bristol, United Kingdom. ⟨hal-04436518⟩
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