Dear MARMAM Community In this article I investigate the mass stranding events of long-finned pilot whales in Scotland from the perspective of sound studies/acoustemology - thinking about the multifaceted relations between sound and strandings through a close reading of the biological literature, official stranding reports, and media reports. Not only is anthropogenic noise pollution implicated in some strandings, but the sounds of stranded whales can be deeply affecting for human rescuers and are potentially diagnostic of animal welfare. Moreover, humans have memorialized stranded whales through music and sound art. I hope to show that a focus on sound as sense-making provides fresh insight into the embodied, affective and reciprocal nature of the evolutionary, ontological and social relations between humans and cetaceans.
Open Access in 'Green Letters - Studies in Ecocriticism' https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14688417.2026.2720130 Regards Alex South == Dr Alex South [email protected] Lecturer (part-time), Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Personal website https://alexsouth.org<https://alexsouth.org/> Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/amsouth.bsky.social Orcid ID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4223-1221 This email, including any attachments is intended for the above named only, and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance upon the email is prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy all copies and inform the sender by return email. While Royal Conservatoire of Scotland checks emails for known viruses, please note that neither Royal Conservatoire of Scotland nor the sender accepts any liability for viruses or other defects and it is your responsibility to scan any attachments included with this email. We take your privacy very seriously. Please find a copy of our Privacy Notice at: rcs.ac.uk/policy/privacy The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland is a company limited by guarantee Reg No.4703 (Scotland) and a charity registered in Scotland, No: SCO1585
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