The aural flaneur is a scholar and activist interested in the politics of listening, who takes her field recorder out into the streets
Naomi Waltham-Smith’s research criss-crosses political philosophy, sound studies, and music theory
Naomi Waltham-Smith is currently
Professor at the University of Oxford
and Tutorial Fellow at Merton College.
Antifascist Silent Disco (2019)
Paris-banlieue contre le FN (2017)
This is What Democracy Sounds Like (2016)
Sonic Habitués of the Strip
The aural flaneur is eager to hear from
researchers, artists, and activists interested in collaborating
To check out
Here are a few other scholars whose work I recommend reading—check back as this section will be rotated with different suggestions every so often.
Julie Beth Napolin
Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at The New School who works on literary sound studies, transatlantic modernism, critical race theory, philosophy, and media culture. Her monograph, The Fact of Resonance: Modernist Acoustics and Narrative Form was published by Fordham University Press in the Idiom series.
Jessica Feldman
Assistant Professor of Global Communications at The American University of Paris who is a scholar, activist, and media artist working in sound, sculpture, and installation. She works on digital communications tools and social-movement democracy and on technologies of surveillance with a focus on listening.
Pooja Rangan
Associate Professor of English in Film & Media Studies at Amherst College who researches questions of voice, listening, accent, and disability in contemporary documentary film. Her book, Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary, won the 2019 Harry Levin Prize for Outstanding First Book from the ACLA.