Eva Giraud

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Eva Giraud is a lecturer in Media, Communication and Culture at Keele University. Her research explores the relationship between politics and digital media, with a special interest in the opportunities that are created – and problems that are posed – for activists by new technologies. She looks in particular at the dynamic between on and offline activism, with a focus on the work of environmental, anti-capitalist and animal rights activists. More broadly she is interested in cultural theories that question and challenge existing relations between humans, animals and the environment. 

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  • The cultural politics of pervasive drama: aural narrative, digital media and re-compositions of urban space (2015) author(s): Eva Giraud published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
    This article argues that pervasive drama has the capacity to illuminate the cultural politics of urban space, by highlighting microsociological power relations that shape everyday movement. It suggests that the medium does this in two ways: firstly, through its use of “pervasive sound narratives” that actively defamiliarize urban space and, secondly, through the auditory technologies that disseminate this narrative, which draw attention to everyday engagements with mobile media that are ordinarily beneath our notice. These arguments respond to Anderson’s call for further research into the “productive listening potentials” of aural narrative (Anderson 2012), by exploring specific ways that pervasive drama can foster more meaningful and politically-engaged experiences of place. Drawing on The Memory Dealer as a case-study, narrative extracts and focus group findings from the drama are used to illustrate pervasive drama’s specific, politicised “listening potentials”.
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