Sound as Technologies of the Self for Feminist Pedagogy

Abstract

This paper discusses the possibilities of sound and sonic thinking as feminist pedagogical tools for self-reflexivity, reimagining, and communal awareness. The collaborative reflections of the facilitators of and two participants in the Gender and Sound course that took place within the body of Bilimler Koyu - an alternative educational initiative with a focus on transdisciplinary, collaborative, and ecologic learning - theoretically argue that sonic thinking opens space for the questioning of dominant cultural narratives, identities and structures, and for thinking about possible subject positions beyond those which are already established. Therefore sound, as an umbrella term for the auditory, constitutes technologies of the self that might have the ability to reconceptualize the self, agency and resistance.