Gender, space and sound: Listening techniques, mobile and stationary bodies
Gender, space and sound: Listening techniques, mobile and stationary bodies
Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
This article draws on an ethnographic fieldwork in which I investigated, and partook in practices of recycling graveside candles in the north of Slovenia. The aim is to show that the personnel’s listening techniques helped sustain the gendered division of labour. While the listening techniques of my male informants seemed to increase their spatial mobility in that it allowed them to occupy a wider area, the auditory skills of the women who worked on sorting the incoming graveside candles seemed to largely allow them to remain in place. Listening techniques were thus used for different purposes as they directly related to the gendered division of labour. As such, they resulted in different ways of occupying space.
This article draws on an ethnographic fieldwork in which I investigated, and partook in practices of recycling graveside candles in the north of Slovenia. The aim is to show that the personnel’s listening techniques helped sustain the gendered division of labour. While the listening techniques of my male informants seemed to increase their spatial mobility in that it allowed them to occupy a wider area, the auditory skills of the women who worked on sorting the incoming graveside candles seemed to largely allow them to remain in place. Listening techniques were thus used for different purposes as they directly related to the gendered division of labour. As such, they resulted in different ways of occupying space.