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Journal Article
Making and unmaking masculinities in Cairo through sonic infrastructural violence
2022
Overview
This article explores the Egyptian state’s production of desired manhood and destruction of unwanted masculinities in relation to home and displacement through audio-focused analysis and a focus on sonic infrastructures. While sonic infrastructures can be used as a form of political control and violence, my work in Egypt also shows how people, through sound and sonic resistance, navigate and shape sonic landscapes of insecurity, violence and liminality, as well as resisting displacement and claiming space. In Cairo, where political unrest over the past decade has produced new imaginaries and maps of belonging, men opposing the politics of the current regime have been expelled by the state from their own city; deprived of rights, safety, status and dignity. The institutions of state power employ sound as a political representation, and control, monitor, limit as well as threaten the population through the sonic. All of these sound systems operate at auditory, corporeal and sociocultural frequencies. There are countless examples of how materialised sonic experiences are consciously constructed and used by the autocratic military regime in Egypt to discipline and ‘produce’ its subjects, through for example forbidding particular music; monitoring its residents and thereby employing control by listening; using unbearable loud sounds during torture; or closing downtown bars, cafes and bookshops and thereby sonically controlling and limiting parts of the cityscape of Cairo. These sonic materialised experiences are connected to how gendered bodies are excluded, un/remade, produced, expressed and negotiated.
本文通过以音频为中心的分析和对声音基础设施的关注，探讨埃及政府如何在住宅与驱逐方面制造自己想要的男子气概，并破坏自己不想要的男子气概。虽然声音基础设施可以被用作一种政治控制和暴力的形式，但我在埃及的工作也揭示了人们如何通过声音和有声的抵抗利用和塑造不安全、暴力和阙限的声音环境，以及抵抗驱逐和主张空间权利。在开罗，过去十年的政治动荡产生了新的想象和归属地图，反对现政权的男人们被国家驱逐出自己的城市；并且被剥夺了权利、安全、地位和尊严。国家权力机构使用声音作为政治表述的手段，通过声音控制、监督、限制以及威胁人民。所有这些声音系统都以听觉、身体和社会文化频率运行。无数的例子表明，埃及的独裁军事政权如何有意识地构建和使用物质化的声音体验来驯化和“生产”其顺民（例如通过禁止特定的音乐）；监控其居民，从而通过监听来实施控制；使用令人难以忍受的高音作为酷刑；或者关闭市中心的酒吧、咖啡馆和书店，从而在声音方面控制和限制开罗的部分城市景观。这些声音物质化的体验与性别化的身体被排斥、取消、改造、表达和协商有关。
