Marina Peterson
Marina Peterson's work attends to elemental forces and shifting modalities of matter, with an emphasis on sound and urbanism. She explores diverse and innovative ways of encountering and presenting the ethnographic through writing, sound, and image. Most of her research is in and of Los Angeles. Her most recent book, Atmospheric Noise: The Indefinite Urbanism of Los Angeles traces environmental noise, atmosphere, sense, and matter that cohere in and through noise pollution legislation and the politics of airport noise in the 1960s, addressing key ways in which noise amplifies ways of sensing and making sense of the atmospheric. She has co-edited books on anthropology and art and is co-director of the Bureau for Experimental Ethnography.
Selected bibliography:
Peterson, Marina. 2021. Atmospheric Noise: TheIndefinite Urbanism ofLos Angeles.Duke University Press
Peterson, Marina. 2010. Sound, Space, and the City: Civic Performance in Downtown Los Angeles.Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
EDITED VOLUMES
Bakke, Gretchen and Marina Peterson (eds.). 2017. Between Matter and Method: Encounters in Anthropology and Art. London: Bloomsbury.
Bakke, Gretchen and Marina Peterson (eds.). 2016. Anthropology of the Arts:A Reader. London: Bloomsbury.
Peterson, Marina and Gary McDonogh (eds.) 2012. Global Downtowns.Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES
Peterson, Marina(ed.). 2021. Sounds of the Anthropocene. Special issue of Sensate Journal. sensatejournal.com
Wang, Jing and Marina Peterson (eds.).2017. Sound and the Public. Special issue of Communication and the Public,
Shipley, Jesse and Marina Peterson (eds.).2012. Audio Work: Labor, Value, and the Making of Musical Aesthetics. Special issue of Journal of Popular Music Studies