More-than-representational geographies of the past and the affectivity of sound: revisiting the Lynmouth flood event of 1952

Hill, Lisa

doi:10.1080/14649365.2015.1026927

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“…There have also been a great number of historical studies on sound which highlight sound as an affective force that shapes places, societies, and experiences. Hill () investigated the 1952 flood event in Lynmouth, UK, and Mills () studied children's sonic geographies of the 1960s, both anchoring their studies in archival work. These studies have in common the unveiling of significant affective content in archives, which may assist us in attuning to the memories, emotions, and effects of the past.…”

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Sonic geographies: Themes, concepts, and deaf spots

Paiva

2018

Geography Compass

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This article poses a straightforward question: What has geography been listening to? Sonic geographies have been established as a relevant subfield in Human Geography in the last decades. During this period, a significant amount of work has been published, but there are still few reviews of these works, and most of them focus solely on Anglophone geography. In this article, I attempt to address this gap by providing an overview of the themes and concepts that have been studied within the emerging subfield of sonic geographies. My intention is to reunite a large range of works that are becoming increasingly scattered and specialized, in order to make sense of the subfield as a whole.With this in mind, I am particularly interested in identifying the "deaf spots" of the subfield, that is, the subjects, concepts, or fields that have not yet been explored thoroughly by sonic geographies.

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Sonic geographies: Themes, concepts, and deaf spots

Paiva

2018

Geography Compass

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“…Cultural geography has long been attentive to the relationship between sound and space, and a body of research exploring this relationship has steadily increased over the last 20 years (Anderson et al, 2005;Hill, 2015). In the following sections we discuss the main themes in this research before moving on to describe the sound art project AGORA in detail and our responses to it.…”

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“…Non-representational and more-than-representational theory has argued for the necessity of developing methods that capture our more than textual social and cultural worlds (Anderson and Harrison, 2012;Hill, 2015;Lorimer, 2005;Thrift,1996;Thrift, 2008).…”

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Sound art and the making of public space

Wells

2018

Social & Cultural Geography

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This paper draws on a collaborative sound art project that aimed to explore how sound art as a non-representational method might attract and produce new publics and re-signify iconic public spaces. We describe how the project, AGORA, proceeded and to what extent it transformed the spaces it was performed in and made new, if transient, publics in the moments of performance. This paper focuses on the British Museum and St George's Church, Bloomsbury. In the Museum the contemplation and resignification provoked by the intervention enlivened the sacred character of the museum. We argue that this (re)sacralization can be experienced as a practice of decolonization, albeit perhaps limited to the space and time of the performance. The Church, already signified as a sacred space, provoked another kind of encounter with the sacred and the colonial. The extended period of reflection provoked by the performance made visible the etchings of colonialism in the fabric of the building. Our contribution is primarily to the geographic literature on non-representational theory in relation to sonic geographies and music geographies. This paper points to the potential of sound art to make us listen to spaces more attentively.

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“…In recent years, flash flood disaster events have led to serious death and economic losses [8]. For example, the flash flood events of Lynmouth caused 34 deaths in the UK in 1952 [9], and the Aude Flood in France was responsible for the deaths of 35 people in 1999 [10]. In China, flash flood disasters are serious, because mountainous and hilly areas account for two thirds of the land and, in 2017 alone, the disaster in Yulin City led to the deaths of 12 people and hundreds of livestock with direct economic losses of 1.03 billion USD, agricultural losses of 91.6 million USD, industrial and mining losses of 0.185 billion USD, infrastructure losses of 0.402 billion USD, public welfare facilities losses of 94.9 million USD, and family property losses of 0.254 billion USD [11].…”

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A Simple Early Warning System for Flash Floods in an Ungauged Catchment and Application in the Loess Plateau, China

Singh

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Under climate change, flash floods have become more frequent and severe, and are posing a danger to society, especially in the ungauged catchments. The objective of this paper, is to construct a simple and early warning system, serving for flash floods risk management in the ungauged catchments of the Loess Plateau in China, and offer a reference for flash flood warning in other areas in the world. Considering the absence of hydrological data in the ungauged catchments, the early warning system for flash floods is established by combining the regional or watershed isograms of hydrological parameters and local empirical formulas. Therein, rainfall and water stage/flow are used as warning indices for real-time risk estimation of flash flood. For early warning, the disaster water stage was first determined according to the protected objects (e.g., residents and buildings), namely the critical water stage. The critical flow (flow threshold), was calculated based on the water stage, and the established relationship between water stage and flow using the cross-sectional measured data. Then, according to the flow frequency curve of the design flood, the frequency of critical flow was ascertained. Assuming that the rainfall and the flood have the same frequency, the critical rainfall threshold was calculated through the design rainstorm with the same frequency of the design flood. Due to the critical rainfall threshold being sensitive with different soil conditions, the design flood and frequency curve of flood flow were calculated under different soil conditions, and thus the rainfall threshold was given under different soil condition for early warning of the flash flood disaster. Taking two sections in Zichang County (within the Loess Plateau) as an example, we set the rainfall and water stage/flow thresholds to trigger immediate or preparation signals for the migration of the population along the river. The application of this method to the 7.26 flood events in 2017 in China, shows that the early warning system is feasible. It is expected that this simple early warning system can provide early warnings of flash floods in ungauged catchments in the Loess Plateau and other similar areas.

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More-than-representational geographies of the past and the affectivity of sound: revisiting the Lynmouth flood event of 1952

Cited by 16 publications

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Sonic geographies: Themes, concepts, and deaf spots

Sonic geographies: Themes, concepts, and deaf spots

Sound art and the making of public space

A Simple Early Warning System for Flash Floods in an Ungauged Catchment and Application in the Loess Plateau, China

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