{"id":13139,"date":"2023-01-13T14:41:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T14:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.golive.clarku.edu\/news\/2023\/01\/13\/sounding-a-warning\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T09:30:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T13:30:32","slug":"sounding-a-warning","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2023\/01\/13\/sounding-a-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Sounding a warning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n

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<\/iframe><\/p>\n Indigenous art from Victoria, British Columbia\n<figure id=\"attachment_27502\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27502\" style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium-large wp-image-27502\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022-Max-Ritts-0007-420x280-2.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Max Ritts\" width=\"420\" height=\"280\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27502\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Max Ritts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/departments\/geography\/\" aria-label=\"Geography Department site\">Geography<\/a> Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.clarku.edu\/faculty\/facultybio.cfm?id=1246\" aria-label=\"Max Ritts bio\">Max Ritts<\/a> has listened to whale song on the north coast of British Columbia, using the sound to document species abundance and protect the area from the shipping industry. He’s gone behind the scenes with an indigenous heavy metal band, which used lyrics to address social, environmental, and political concerns in their community. Ritts discovered that acoustics are an avenue to research the areas that interest him most, such as capitalism, colonialism, social rights, social justice, environmental rights, and environmental justice.<\/p>\n“Sound is a gateway into those issues,” he says. “The prevailing political concern that I have as a geographer is indigenous rights and indigenous justice, and how we can use unusual tools and processes to think about those relationships.”<\/p>\nListen and subscribe on <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4UuYAjq1d3Hq45cjwxoCNL\" aria-label=\"Listen on Spotify\">Spotify<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/challenge-change\/id1608025510\" aria-label=\"Listen on Apple Podcasts\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>. This episode features music by the band Gyibaaw. Ritts recommends “<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/book\/9780520257559\/earth-sound-earth-signal\" aria-label=\"Earth Sound Earth Signal book\">Earth Sound Earth Signal<\/a>” by Douglas Kahn and “<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/aurality\" aria-label=\"Aurality book\">Aurality<\/a>” by Ana María Ochoa Gautier to anyone interested in exploring these topics.<\/p>\nChallenge. Change.<\/strong> is produced by Andrew Hart and Melissa Hanson for Clark University. Find other episodes wherever you listen to podcasts.<\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clark geographer uses acoustics to confront environmental, political challenges<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13140,"template":"","meta":{"story_color":"#525250","story_headerImg":13140,"section_label":"Challenge. Change. 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