Sounds of Precarious Labour: Acoustic Regimes of Transient Workers

不稳定劳动的声音:临时工的声学状况

基本信息

  • 批准号:
    AH/V015818/1
  • 负责人:
  • 金额:
    $ 20.9万
  • 依托单位:
  • 依托单位国家:
    英国
  • 项目类别:
    Fellowship
  • 财政年份:
    2022
  • 资助国家:
    英国
  • 起止时间:
    2022 至 无数据
  • 项目状态:
    已结题

项目摘要

This project investigates the sonic staking and regimenting of public, private and liminal spaces claimed by low-wage migrant workers in precarious labour. It focuses on unequal sonic and labour flows around the multicultural city-state of Singapore, where a Chinese-majority population draws heavily upon the resources of a primarily Muslim and lower-income region, particularly in domestic work and construction. This stark inequality has been exposed and exacerbated through the recent COVID pandemic, which has seen 'gold-standard' health-management protocols set up by the government upturned in a sudden and unexpected resurgence of infections among transient worker populations. At the heart COVID's second wave is the invisibilised and overlooked status of transient workers, whose (lack of) welfare - impacting overnight on the lives of all Singaporeans - has become a tipping point in a national-turned-global crisis and issue of public debate. Here, sounded worlds - particularly in electronic and virtual stakings of space, agency and identity amid harsh quarantined environments of packed hostels and employer-shared housing - have become ever more important recourses for migrants in safeguarding their voices, privacy and agency. Researching phenomena from earphone havens to social media singalongs to lockdown concerts and the acoustic disciplining of environments via language exclusion and sonic surveillance (eg maintenance of 'housework sounds' across the home), my project addresses multiple issues in urgent need of scrutiny. My chief investigatory path targets sonic materialities, with an ocular-strategised approach to multisensorial ethnography that challenges the dominance of visually-determined narratives (Bull & Back 2003). In addition to the obvious (such as songs as therapeutic spaces), I look at the sonic regimenting of migrant communities through language control in homes, workplaces and public spaces, as well as affective soundscapes in places of sanctuary (mosques, churches, NGOs). I also consider musical imaginaries of worker-life on social media. I question debates on migration, cultural cleavage, civil society activism, technology and integration, and take an intersectional approach to analysing competing arcs of race, gender, religion, class, mobility and broader regional politics. Beyond the region, my findings will be relevant to all globally shifting societies where socio-economic inequalities borne of migratory changes and religious tensions loom. These asymmetries have been further intensified by COVID's uneven impact on the socialisation of private spaces and their sounded mappings. This intersectional approach pivots on sound studies (Steingo & Sykes 2019) and decolonised understandings of affective and marginalised labour through interrogating acoustic regimes, sonic havens and all ambivalent spaces in between. It explores interventionist strategies in building new pathways for structured listening and active (re)sounding, and makes transformative contributions towards thinking and policy-making on labour and equality in neglected aural realms whose critical reevaluation should not be overridden by blanket COVID challenges; rather, my research necessarily integrates active responses to the crisis. Singapore as fieldsite has been chosen for its geopolitics: hailed as the culturo-economic broker for Southeast Asia, this wealthy city of third-and fourth-generation Chinese immigrants operates on asymmetrical exchanges of international resources. Here, notions of 'local' are often conflated with 'national' or 'cosmopolitan'. However, on the flipside of this globalism are ghost populations of low-paid migrant workers. My project gives voice to this invisibilised world and is integral to uncovering sounded counter-narratives of multiculturalism in Asia, where systemic inequalities have escalated the catastrophic impacts of COVID on (un)safe spaces (quarantined; surveiled; excluded; forcefully integrated).
该项目调查了从事不稳定劳动的低工资移徙工人对公共、私人和阈空间的声标和管制。它关注的是新加坡这个多元文化的城市国家周围不平等的声音和劳动力流动,在那里,华人占多数的人口严重依赖主要是穆斯林和低收入地区的资源,特别是在家政工作和建筑方面。这种严重的不平等在最近的新冠肺炎大流行中暴露出来并加剧了,政府制定的“黄金标准”健康管理协议在流动工人人群中突然意外地重新出现感染。COVID第二波疫情的核心是临时工的无形和被忽视的地位,他们的(缺乏)福利-一夜之间影响到所有新加坡人的生活-已经成为一场全国性的全球危机和公共辩论问题的转折点。在这里,有声世界--特别是在拥挤的旅馆和雇主合租住房的恶劣隔离环境中,在电子和虚拟的空间、代理和身份赌注中--已成为移民保护自己的声音、隐私和代理的越来越重要的资源。研究从耳机避风港到社交媒体唱歌到锁定音乐会的现象,以及通过语言排除和声音监视(例如在整个家庭中维护“家务声音”)对环境的声学纪律,我的项目解决了迫切需要审查的多个问题。我的主要解释路径目标是声音材料,用一种视觉策略的方法来挑战视觉决定叙事的主导地位(公牛和巴克2003)。除了显而易见的(如歌曲作为治疗空间),我还通过家庭,工作场所和公共场所的语言控制以及避难所(清真寺,教堂,非政府组织)的情感音景来观察移民社区的声音控制。我也认为社交媒体上的音乐是工作生活的缩影。我质疑关于移民,文化分裂,民间社会活动,技术和一体化的辩论,并采取交叉的方法来分析种族,性别,宗教,阶级,流动性和更广泛的区域政治的竞争弧。在该地区之外,我的研究结果将与所有全球变化的社会有关,这些社会因移民变化和宗教紧张局势而产生的社会经济不平等。新型冠状病毒对私人空间的社会化及其声音映射的不均衡影响进一步加剧了这些不对称。这种交叉方法以声音研究为基础(Steingo & Sykes 2019),并通过询问声学制度,声音避风港和之间的所有矛盾空间来对情感和边缘化劳动进行非殖民化理解。它探讨了干预主义策略,为结构化倾听和积极(重新)发声建立新的途径,并为被忽视的听觉领域的劳动和平等问题的思考和政策制定做出了变革性贡献,这些领域的批判性重新评估不应被全面的COVID挑战所压倒;相反,我的研究必须整合对危机的积极应对。选择新加坡作为实地考察地点是因为它的地缘政治:这个由第三代和第四代中国移民组成的富裕城市被誉为东南亚的文化经济经纪人,在不对称的国际资源交换中运作。在这里,“地方”的概念往往与“国家”或“世界”混为一谈。然而,在这种全球化的另一面是低收入移民工人的幽灵人口。我的项目为这个无形的世界发声,是揭示亚洲多元文化主义的合理反叙述的组成部分,在亚洲,系统性的不平等加剧了COVID对(非)安全空间(隔离;监视;排除;强制整合)的灾难性影响。

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Listening to Transient Labour in Singapore: Acoustic Lives of Migrant Workers
聆听新加坡的临时工:外来务工人员的声音生活
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    2022
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  • 作者:
    Shzr Ee Tan
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    Shzr Ee Tan
https://wordpress.com/sites/soundsofprecariouslabour.wordpress.com
https://wordpress.com/sites/soundsofprecariouslabour.wordpress.com
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    2022
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    Shzr Ee Tan
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