Sound-Politics in So Paulo

In So Paulo during Brazil's post-dictatorship period, noise control became a recurrent controversy, and the ecological agenda against noise as a harmful pollutant has significantly reconfigured the presence of environmental sounds in the city. Sound-Politics in So Paulo argues that the framing of specific sounds as unavoidable, unnecessary, or as harmful "noise" has been an effective strategy to organize spaces and administer group behavior in this rapidly expanding city.