Sandra Lori Petersen

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Sandra Lori Petersen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, where she leads the research project “What is Neighbour Noise?” and the intervention project “Together Around Neighbour Noise.” The former investigates when the sounds of neighbors are experienced as disturbing noise by the residents of multistory buildings, and the latter develops interventions in collaboration with inhabitants around neighborliness, sound, and noise. Both projects are funded by the Landowners’ Investment Fund (Grundejernes Investeringsfond) and Realdania. Her doctoral research and dissertation focused on soundscapes and social relations in phone-in radio programs in France.

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  • Sonic Relations as Bulging Spheres (2021) author(s): Sandra Lori Petersen published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
    In multistory housing, sounds occasionally penetrate the walls and floors separating apartments. It may seem like this is a one-way flow of acoustic waves moving through built material from one inhabitant to another. In this article, I show that acoustic waves passing among apartments often move in more ways than just through built material. I propose a conceptualization of the auditory connection between neighbors as sonic relations that consist not only of concrete sounds but also of a range of abstract emotional layers, elements of personal histories, and interpersonal conflicts. Through an exploration of the accounts of two neighbors living in an early 20th-century building in Copenhagen, I show how the sonic relation between them can be understood as interfering in the domestic-personal spheres that shape both of them.
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