Noise governance and the hearing subject in urban Taiwan
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Noise Governance and the Hearing Subject in Urban Taiwan investigates the social perception of sound and the technological, political, and historical inflections that modulate the meaning and materiality of noise in urban Taiwan. As an abstract, ephemeral phenomenon, sound resists efforts toward stabilization, a characterization that contradicts the objectification of noise as unwanted sound. The dissertation utilizes a combined historical and ethnographic approach to understand how individuals, communities, and the state contend with the elusiveness of sound through the circumscribing technologies of written petitions, quantitative measurements, and homemade audio recordings. Based upon 16 months of archival research and ethnographic fieldwork with urban residents and environmental protection officials in the capital city Taipei, the dissertation draws attention to the fraught positionality of hearing subjects in perceiving noise as "matter out of place." Divergent beliefs of noise as an acceptable, naturalized part of the urban environment and noise as a socially and historically constructed object in need of elimination are reflective of distinct epistemologies of hearing that inform the making of differentiated auditory publics. The dissertation descries the inter-connected network of civil servants, environmental inspectors, social critics, and urban residents, all of whom participate in separate knowledge practices and value systems that push the limits of noise as a private experience and a state-level problem. By relating acoustic continuities between Taiwan's postwar authoritarian history and contemporary Taiwan, the dissertation brings together a study of urban subjectivity, the historical construction of a modern state, and an acoustemology of urban Taiwan.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2017 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Hsieh, Jennifer C |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Anthropology. |
| Primary advisor | Inoue, Miyako, 1962- |
| Thesis advisor | Inoue, Miyako, 1962- |
| Thesis advisor | Ebron, Paulla A, 1953- |
| Thesis advisor | Helmreich, Stefan |
| Thesis advisor | Mullaney, Thomas S. (Thomas Shawn) |
| Advisor | Ebron, Paulla A, 1953- |
| Advisor | Helmreich, Stefan |
| Advisor | Mullaney, Thomas S. (Thomas Shawn) |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Jennifer C. Hsieh. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Anthropology. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2017. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2017 by Jennifer Chia-Lynn Hsieh
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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