{"title":"Gathering Cities, Speculating Wind: Listening in Dry Season Gulu","authors":"Joella Bitter","doi":"10.1111/ciso.70003","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div>\n \n <p>What is the place of the wind in analyses of the city? In late 2016, and into 2017, forceful dry season winds in Gulu, Uganda, provoked frequent commentary. This short ethnographic essay endeavors to think with these winds (of weather and breath) and to speculate their implications for “the city” vis-à-vis its lived, sensory geographies. Using listening methodologies drawn from ethnography, sonic praxis, and Black studies, I consider windy encounters as gatherings of the city in audible movements of air. From these windy attunements emerges a city unsettled by changing seasonal winds, a city that endures, and a city living with wind as relational presence. For each, performed displacements of air enact wind as a situating force amidst unsteady linkages of geography, climate, and urban development. Can winds attune us to ways of unsettling human geographies of enclosure?</p>\n </div>","PeriodicalId":46417,"journal":{"name":"City & Society","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"City & Society","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ciso.70003","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"ANTHROPOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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What is the place of the wind in analyses of the city? In late 2016, and into 2017, forceful dry season winds in Gulu, Uganda, provoked frequent commentary. This short ethnographic essay endeavors to think with these winds (of weather and breath) and to speculate their implications for “the city” vis-à-vis its lived, sensory geographies. Using listening methodologies drawn from ethnography, sonic praxis, and Black studies, I consider windy encounters as gatherings of the city in audible movements of air. From these windy attunements emerges a city unsettled by changing seasonal winds, a city that endures, and a city living with wind as relational presence. For each, performed displacements of air enact wind as a situating force amidst unsteady linkages of geography, climate, and urban development. Can winds attune us to ways of unsettling human geographies of enclosure?
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City & Society, the journal of the Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology, is intended to foster debate and conceptual development in urban, national, and transnational anthropology, particularly in their interrelationships. It seeks to promote communication with related disciplines of interest to members of SUNTA and to develop theory from a comparative perspective.
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