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Journal Article
ON CHAINSAWS AND ACOUSTIC VIOLENCE
2025
Overview
This article explores distinct practices of sounding and listening that have emerged in a context of severe deforestation in Ajusco-Chichinautzin, a region south of Mexico City. It applies the concept of acoustic violence to this setting, as part of wider attempts to build constructive responses to climate breakdown through sound and music scholarship. As the first indication of occurring logging, the sound of chainsaws proves vital in attempts by forest guards and police to detect and halt deforestation Equally, attentiveness to acoustic violence allows us to cut through sensationalist media presentations of the problem of deforestation, to perceive how local populations—often blamed for complicity with loggers—are in fact direct victims of environmental loss. The concept of acoustic violence can also illuminate how, in a context not just environmental loss but of dispossession, modalities of listening may become simplified instrumentalized, or lost.
Este artículo explora distintas prácticas de sonar y escuchar que han surgido en un contexto de severa deforestación en Ajusco-Chichinautzin, una región al sur de la Ciudad de México. Aplica el concepto de violencia acústica a este contexto, como parte de intentos más amplios de construir respuestas constructivas al colapso climático a través de la investigación sonora y musical. Como primer indicio de la tala en curso, el sonido de las motosierras resulta vital en los intentos de los guardabosques y la policía por detectar y detener la deforestación. De igual modo, prestar atención a la violencia acústica nos permite trascender las presentaciones sensacionalistas de los medios de comunicación sobre el problema de la deforestación y percibir cómo las poblaciones locales, a menudo culpadas de complicidad con los taladores, son de hecho víctimas directas de la pérdida ambiental. El concepto de violencia acústica también puede iluminar cómo, en un contexto no sólo de pérdida ambiental sino de despojo, las modalidades de escucha pueden simplificarse, instrumentalizarse o perderse.
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Wiley
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