Εξειδίκευση τύπου :	Άρθρο σε επιστημονικό περιοδικό
Τίτλος:	Sounding Border Natures: An Aural Contact with the Greek-Albanian Border
Δημιουργός/Συγγραφέας:	Levidis, Stefanos
Εκδότης:	[EL] Εθνικό Ίδρυμα Ερευνών. Ινστιτούτο Ιστορικών Ερευνών[EN] National Hellenic Research Foundation. Institute of Historical Research
Ημερομηνία:	2025-12
Γλώσσα:	Αγγλικά
ISSN:	3057-5605
DOI:	10.26238/witnessing.2025.01.08
Περιγραφή:	Short essay. The article develops an aural methodology for interrogating the historical and ongoing production of borders through the case of the Grammos mountain range along the Greek-Albanian frontier. Drawing on field recordings made in and around the Gistova glacial lake and the Sarantaporos watershed, it examines how hydrophones, environmental sound, and embodied listening can reveal the dynamic, more-than-human forces that unsettle conventional understandings of ‘natural borders’. The analysis situates contemporary sonic encounters within a century of territorial demarcation, militarisation, ecological transformation, and linguistic and ethnic regulation – from interwar boundary-making and civil war munitions to Metaxas-era surveillance regimes and present-day migratory constraints. To conceptualise these entanglements, the article proposes border natures: socio-material assemblages in which natural processes, state power, ecological change, and human and non-human agencies co-produce frontier environments. By listening to glacial lakes, melting snow, sediment-laden rivers, explosive residues, and local oral traditions, the study argues that sound offers access to forms of archival presence that exceed human testimony and disturb state-imposed silences. Ultimately, it shows how critical aural practice can sense, render audible, and contest the agentive geologic, political, and atmospheric forces through which borders are continually reconfigured – and through which they enact violence on those compelled to traverse them.
Τίτλος πηγής δημοσίευσης:	Witnessing
Τεύχος:	01
Θεματική Κατηγορία:	[EL] Κοινωνικές επιστήμες[EN] Social Sciences [EL] Κοινωνιολογία[EN] Sociology [EL] Ανθρωπολογία[EN] Anthropology [EL] Τέχνες (Γενικά)[EN] Arts in general [EL] Ηχογραφήσεις[EN] Sound recordings
Λέξεις-Κλειδιά:	border natures critical sonic research audible frontiers
Τοπική Κάλυψη:	Greece Albania
Χρηματοδότης:	European Research Council (ERC)
Χρηματοδοτικό πρόγραμμα:	Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme
Αναγνωριστικό χρηματοδοτικού προγράμματος:	101002720
Κάτοχος πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων:	© 2025 by the author
Όροι και προϋποθέσεις δικαιωμάτων:	Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Ηλεκτρονική διεύθυνση στον εκδότη (link):	https://doi.org/10.26238/witnessing.2025.01.08
Είναι μέρος του:	Witnessing: A Journal of Critical Humanities and Socially Engaged Arts, Issue 01: Listening as Witnessing
Εμφανίζεται στις συλλογές:	Τομέας Νεοελληνικών Ερευνών - Επιστημονικό έργο