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[AUDITORY] CFP Journal of Sonic Studies - Indigenous Sonic Worlds

JSS Call for Papers: Indigenous Sonic Worlds

Indigenous peoples have held, practiced, and transmitted profound knowledge of sound since time immemorial. Across generations, sound has been integral to Indigenous ways of knowing, being, communicating, and expressing relationships with ancestral lands, waters, environments, and the cosmos. Indigenous sonic knowledge and creative practices are enduring, living traditions that continue to evolve, affirming sound as a fundamental _expression_ of identity, cultural continuity, sovereignty, and interconnectedness. Although the sound studies Western canon – almost exclusively created by white, privileged males – is still all too often used as the main point of reference, people like Ana Maria Ochoa Gaultier, Dylan Robinson and Luis Cárcamo-Huechante – to mention only a few – have not only critically reflected on the Western bias, but actively and constructively transformed the sound studies discourse by focusing on non-Western forms of knowledge, experiences, concepts and histories. And of course the same goes, mutatis mutandis, for developments in sound art, initiated by so many Indigenous artists. In order to highlight this even more, and to bring such voices together, the Journal of Sonic Studies invites Indigenous sound artists, practitioners, researchers and educators to contribute to this special issue on Indigenous sonic worlds.

Themes for submission may include but are not limited to:
  • Sensory indigenous politics, activism and public space
  • Listening to lands, waters and living environments
  • Sonic indigenous storytelling, identity and Indigenous women's narratives
  • Installation, screen and immersive indigenous sonic practices
  • Indigenous data sovereignty, archives and sonic heritage
  • Indigenous sonic epistemologies and ontologies
  • Indigenous Language, voice and oral traditions
  • Sonic sovereignty, decolonization and self-determination
  • Indigenous sound, embodiment and wellbeing
  • Indigenous futurisms, technology and sonic innovation
  • Sonic methodologies and Indigenous research practices
  • Intergenerational indigenous knowledge, memory and ancestral connections
  • Indigenous soundscapes, place and belonging
  • Indigenous-led collaboration, cultural exchange and trans-Indigenous sonic practices
  • Teaching, learning and Indigenous sonic pedagogies

Guest editor
Dr Maree Sheehan (Ngāti Maniapoto, Waikato, Ngāti Tuwharetoa, Clan Sheehan) is from Aotearoa, New Zealand. 

Deadline
Potential contributors are invited to submit completed essays by 15 May 2027.
For more information, or to submit an “exposition”, please contact Marcel Cobussen (MA.Cobussen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) and/or Maree Sheehan (Maree.Sheehan@xxxxxxxxxx). 

The Journal of Sonic Studies is a peer-reviewed, online, open access journal providing a platform for theorists and artist-researchers who would like to present relevant work regarding auditory cultures, to further our collective understanding of the impact and importance of sound for our cultures. The editors welcome scholarly as well as artistic research and also expect all contributions to have a firm theoretical grounding. Priority is given to contributions that explicitly use the Internet as a medium, e.g. by inserting A/V materials, hyperlinks, and the use of non-conventional structures. Submission guidelines can be found at sonicstudies.org/guidelines.

Vincent Meelberg
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Senior lecturer, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, Radboud University Nijmegen
Founding editor of the Journal of Sonic Studies - http://www.sonicstudies.org