Geography & Environment Publications
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2020
Volume
6
Issue
2
Journal
GeoHumanities
First Page
469
Last Page
475
URL with Digital Object Identifier
https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2020.1825111
Abstract
Through this paper, we seek to re-imagine and challenge the meaning of archival spaces. While archival spaces are repositories of information, they are also sites where cultural values and public memory are shaped, and forms of power enacted. Drawing on sensory ethnography research in the Le Corbusier archives in Paris, France, we consider how boundaries are disrupted through noise, echo, reverberations, buzzing, and other “sounds.” Our work is presented in two overlapping textures: a soundtrack, with recordings from the Le Corbusier archives; and the text written out below. Alongside tracing archival soundscapes, a secondary function of this paper is to find our way with voice. In our experiences, ethnography is an embodied method, personal and context-specific. This made engaging with the two sets of “I’s” within our work, ultimately, a reflexive and collective process that happened over many conversations. We have chosen to keep “I” and clarify, as much as possible, whose experience is being shared.
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Notes
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in GeoHumanities on 2020-11-19, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/2373566X.2020.1825111.