Sound and Detention: Towards Critical Listening, Sonic Citizenship and Social Justice

Lucy Cathcart Frödén is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her practice-based PhD at the University of Glasgow explored how creative collaboration can foster mutual solidarity. Her published work spans criminology, artistic research, sound studies and political science.

Kate Herrity is Research Fellow in Punishment at Kings College, University of Cambridge, UK. A criminologist, her work seeks to unsettle boundaries between fields and ideas with a focus on music, sound and critical listening. Her monograph Sound, Order and Survival in Prison (2024) drew on aural ethnography in a local men’s prison.

Áine Mangaoang is Associate Professor in Popular Music at the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo. Her books include Dangerous Mediations: Pop Music in a Philippine Prison Video (Bloomsbury, 2019) and Made in Ireland: Studies in Popular Music (2020).