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| Name | Karin Bijsterveld |
| Academic title(s) | Prof. Dr. |
| Institute | Maastricht University |
| Department | Society Studies/Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences |
| Function | Professors of Science, Technology and Modern Culture |
| Address | P.O. Box 616 |
| Zip code | 6200 MD Maastricht |
| Phone | Netherlands |
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| Short biography |
Karin Bijsterveld is Professor of Science, Technology, and Modern Culture at Maastricht University. She is author of Mechanical Sound: Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century (MIT, 2008), co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies (2012, with Trevor Pinch), co-author of Sound and Safe: A History of Listening Behind the Wheel (Oxford UP 2014, with Eefje Cleophas, Stefan Krebs & Gijs Mom), and editor of a special issue on Auditory History in The Public Historian (2015). Her book Sonic Skills: Listening for Knowledge in Science, Medicie and Engineering (Palgrave, 2019) is fully open access.
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| Recent publications |
Bijsterveld, K. (2019). Sonic Skills: Listening for Knowledge in Science, Medicine and Engineering (1920s-present). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (open access: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137598295#aboutBook) Semmerling, L., Peters, P. & Bijsterveld, K. (2018). Staging the Kinetic: How Music Automata Sensitise Audiences to Sound Art. In J. Rudi (Ed.), Special Issue on Kinetic Art, Organised Sound, 23, 3, 235-245. Supper, A. & Bijsterveld, K. (2018). Klingt überzeugend: Arten des Zuhörens und Sonic Skills in Wissenspraktiken. In M. Zorn & U. Lenker (Eds.), (Zu)Hören interdisziplinär (pp. 133-146). München: Allitera Verlag/ Münchner Veröffentlichungen zur Musikgeschichte. Bijsterveld, K. (2018). Sound Waves of Protest: Noise Abatement Movements. In M. Bull (Ed.), Routledge Companion to Sound Studies (pp. 81-89). New York [etc.]: Routledge. Bijsterveld, K. (2018). Ears-on Exhibitions: Sound in the History Museum. In D. Howes (Ed.), Senses and Sensation: Critical and Primary Sources, Volume 2: History and Sociology (pp. 345-359). London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Publishing. Bijsterveld, K. (2016). Nichts zu sehen, aber viel zo hören: Lärmschutzwände und die Einführung von KFZ-Audiosystemen. In B. Ochsner & R. Stock (Eds.), SenseAbility: Mediale Praktiken des Sehens und Hörens (pp. 189-205). Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag. Bijsterveld, K. (2016). Ethnography and Archival Research in Studying Cultures of Sound. In J.G. Papenburg & H. Schulze (Eds.), Sound as Popular Culture: A Research Companion (pp. 99-109). Cambridge MA: MIT Press. Bijsterveld, K. (2015). Ears-on Exhibitions: Sound in the History Museum, The Public Historian, 37, 4, 73-90. Bijsterveld, K. (2015). Beyond Echoic Memory: Introduction Special Issue on Auditory History, The Public Historian, 37, 4, 7-13. Supper, A. & Bijsterveld, K. (2015). Sounds Convincing: Modes of Listening and Sonic Skills in Knowledge Making, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 40, 2, 124-144.
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| Role in Tensions of Europe | |
| Research interests | Security, Mobilty, Governance, Environment, Knowledge Networks |
| Additional research interests | Sound & Noise |