Rhythms and routines: Sounding order and survival in a local men's prison using aural ethnography

Sound files to accompany thesis. The project sought to explore the significance of sound to the relationships and wellbeing of those living and working in a local men's prison. The research design was underpinned by a particular understanding of sound - as aural packages of meaning-making. In this sense sound was used to mean aural aspects of social experience, an understanding which was incorporated in to more traditional approaches to ethnography; an aural ethnography. Over seven months was spent in a local men's prison, conducting ethnography and ethnographically-informed interviews. Using sound as a theoretical framework to explore prison life revealed the ways in which the ontological security offered by the rhythms and routines of a predictably structured day were central to processes of order maintenance, and to strategies of survival in the prison environment.本学位论文配套的声音数据集。本研究旨在探究声音对于某地方男子监狱内服刑人员与工作人员的人际互动及身心健康的重要意义。本研究设计以特定的声音认知为理论根基：声音是承载意义建构的听觉载体。在此语境下，声音被界定为社会体验中的听觉维度，这一认知被融入传统民族志研究范式，形成听觉民族志（aural ethnography）。研究团队耗时七个月进驻该地方男子监狱，开展民族志田野调查及基于民族志方法的访谈工作。以声音作为理论框架探究监狱生活，揭示了核心规律：由可预测的日常节律与固定规程所提供的本体论安全（ontological security），是监狱环境中秩序维持进程与生存策略的核心支撑。