Sonic Socialism
Crisis and Care in Pandemic Hanoi
$98.09
- Paperback
226 pages
- Release Date
3 November 2025
Summary
In an era dominated by visual information, what can the sounds of a pandemic reveal about crisis and care? How might attuning to sonic atmospheres uncover new dimensions to states of emergency and their implications for collective life? In Sonic Socialism, Christina Schwenkel examines the use of sound in COVID-19 response efforts in urban Vietnam. Based on “soundwork” conducted in Hanoi in 2020 during the pandemic’s first year, she shows how acoustic technologies played a pivotal yet…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780520416192 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0520416198 |
| Author: | Christina Schwenkel |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Imprint: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 226 |
| Release Date: | 3 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 342g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Christina Schwenkel
Christina Schwenkel is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside, and author of Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam.
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