Christina Schwenkel
Socio-cultural anthropologist and Professor of Anthropology and Southeast Asian Studies at UC Riverside, author of Sonic Socialism: Crisis and Care in Pandemic Hanoi (U California Press, 2025) with long-standing research on urban Vietnam, infrastructure, and sensory autoethnography.
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Mar 31, 2026 • 1h 10min
Christina Schwenkel, "Sonic Socialism: Crisis and Care in Pandemic Hanoi" (U California Press, 2025)
Christina Schwenkel, a socio-cultural anthropologist at UC Riverside who studies urban Vietnam and sensory ethnography. She explores how pandemic-era soundcraft reshaped public health: loudspeakers, alerts, and songs as tools of care and control. Short, vivid stories look at quarantine listening, frontline sonic labor, and how music and messaging remade everyday urban life.
