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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

, 2012
In the West are the 'haves', while much of the rest of the world are the 'have-nots'. The extent of inequality today is unprecedented. Drawing on an extraordinary range of contemporary and historical examples, Why Nations Fail looks at the root of the ...
D. Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson
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‘Feeling the range’: Emotional geographies of sound in prisons

Emotion, Space and Society, 2016
Abstract Sound, as a modality of emotion, is central to the everyday constitution of space. For an increasing population in Canada, however, incarceration forms the basis of everyday life. This paper explores the connections between sound and emotion as they play out in the under-researched context of prisons. I use a participant’s term, “feeling the
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Soundscapes: geographies of sound and music

2020
The study of soundscapes encourages geographers to hear the world, paying attention to the diversity and specificity of difference as heard, and the production of space by and through sound. A consideration of music as organised sound is a particular aspect within this consideration but the geographer should pay attention to all natural and manmade ...
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Online Sound and Virtual Architecture (Contribution to the Geography of Cultural Translation)

Leonardo Music Journal, 1997
This article starts from the premise that communication is the fundamental human attribute. However, in contemporary conditions, the integrity of the message has taken precedence over the communicative. Exemplary instances are the cult of authenticity in recording engineering and the positioning of the auditor as end-user and focal point of stereophony.
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Towards a Malayan Indian sonic geography: Sound and social relations in colonial Singapore

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2015
Jim Sykes
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Micro‐Geographies of Sound: Mapping Scalar Knowledge Relations

Anthropology & Education Quarterly
ABSTRACT How do we methodologically map scalar relations of knowledge and the carceral colonial repressions they encounter and refuse? One possibility is to listen. Drawing on one ethnographic vignette from inside a state‐identified girls' prison school, this reflection privileges sound as a subject, a practice, and an analytic in ...
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The geopoetics of Tom Waits’s America: a study in cultural geography and sound

cultural geographies
This article examines the imaginative geographies produced in Tom Waits’s music, focusing on how sound, instrumentation and vocal performance generate affective spaces of belonging, displacement and estrangement. Rather than treating songs as representations of place, the paper approaches them as spatial practices that actively ...
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Health geographies of art, music and sound

2018
Candice P. Boyd, Michelle Duffy
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Making sense of sound: Visceral sonic mapping as a research tool

, 2016
Michelle Duffy, G. Waitt, T. Harada
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The Spatial Economy: Cities, Regions, and International Trade

, 1999
Masahisa Fujita, P. Krugman, A. Venables
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