Publications
Scholarly book chapters
P. de Souza (2021). What Does (In)justice Sound Like? On listening, acoustic violence and the booing of Adam Goodes’. In Unsettled Voices: Beyond Free Speech in the Late Liberal Era. T. Dreher and M. Griffiths (eds). London: Routledge, pp. 68-82.
Dreher, T. and P. de Souza. (2019). ‘Beyond Marginalised Voices: Listening as participation in multicultural media’. In Media and Participation in Post-Migrant Societies, edited by Tanja Thomas, Merle-Marie Kruse and Miriam Stehling. Rowman & Littlefield International.
Dreher, T. and P. de Souza. (2018). ‘Locating Listening’. In Ethical Responsiveness and the Politics of Difference, edited by Anshuman Mondal and Tanja Dreher. London: Palgrave MacMillan. https://www.palgrave.com/br/book/9783319939575
Refereed journal articles
P. de Souza (forthcoming). ‘Holding Breath: Collective listening, care and connection in the wake of pandemic grief’. Performance Research, 29(3). [Special Issue: On Breath].
McCallum K; T Dreher; M Deas; P. de Souza P; S Joseph; E Skogerbø (2024). 'Making public or quiet listening? Media logics and public inquiries into the abuse of children', Media International Australia (online first), http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878X241267722
P. de Souza and T. Dreher (2023). ‘Resistance, Reclamation and Repair: The Parragirls feminist archive and reparative media practices in the wake of institutional harm and media damage’, Feminist Media Studies, 24(4), 783–799. doi.1080/14680777.2023.2226838
EK Russell and P. de Souza (2023). ‘Counter-mapping the mobile border: Racial surveillance and data justice in spaces of disappearance’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. (online first) doi:10.1177/02637758231179224
de Souza, P. and EK Russell. (2023) 'Sensing the Border(s): Sound and carceral intimacies in and beyond indefinite detention’. Crime, Media, Culture 19(1): 20–39. doi:10.1177/17416590221081165
EK Russell and P. de Souza (2023). ‘Soundmapping Hotel Detention’. [Symposium Section: Border Hotels: Spaces of Detention and Quarantine]. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, pp15-18. (online first) doi:10.1177/23996544231157254d
de Souza, P. and T. Dreher (2021) ‘Dwelling in Discomfort: On the conditions of listening in settler colonial Australia’, Borderlands: Culture, Politics, Law and Earth, 20(2): 30-60.
de Souza, P (2020) ‘Sonic Archives of Breathlessness’, International Journal of Communication, 14(2020), 5686-5704.
de Souza. P (2020) ‘Beyond the Horizon of the State: Listening to offshore detention’s longue durée’. Law, Text, Culture, volume 24. [Special Issue: The Acoustics of Justice]. (Also republished in Disclaimer online with embedded audio links).
de Souza, P. (2018). ‘What Does (In)justice Sound Like? On listening, acoustic violence and the booing of Adam Goodes’, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 32(4). [Special Issue: Shifting the Terms of Debate]. doi:10.1080/10304312.2018.1488524.
MacDowall, L. and P. de Souza (2018) ‘I’d Double Tap That: Street art, graffiti and Instagram research’, Media, Culture and Society, 40(1): 3-22. doi: 10.1177/0163443717703793
Major reports and research papers
T. Dreher and P. de Souza (2021) ‘Listening In: Community media and the politics of listening’, Media Futures Hub, UNSW, Sydney.
de Souza, P., F. Edmonds, S. McGuire, M. Evans and R. Chenhall (2016) “Aboriginal Knowledge, Digital Technologies and Cultural Collections: Policy, protocols and practice”, Research Paper #4, Melbourne Networked Society Institute, University of Melbourne.
Edmonds, F., C. Rachinger, G. Singh, R. Chenhall, M. Arnold, P. de Souza and S Lowish (2014) “What’s Ya Story: the making of a digital storytelling mobile app with Aboriginal young people”, report for the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network, Melbourne.
Other:
de Souza, P. (2006-08) Curator Notes, australianscreen. National Film and Sound Archive.
Conference presentations and speaking invitations
Selected invited presentations
2020 P. de Souza Contributor to opening panel: Indigenous Voices, Unsettling Narratives and Just Hearings. Law, Listening and Injustice symposium, Legal Intersections Research Centre, University of Wollongong, 20-21 Feb.
2020, P. de Souza ‘Listen within / against / beyond the settler state (democratic, anti-colonial, decolonial listening’. Listening: politics, practice, performance workshop, School of Arts and Media, UNSW, Sydney, 18 February.
2019 P. de Souza Archives of Statelessness workshop, convened by the Behind the Wire oral history project, Peter McMullan Centre for Statelessness, University of Melbourne, 20 October.
2019 P. de Souza ‘Listening Interventions’. Listening at the Intersections workshop, convened by Professor Leah Bassel, University of Roehampton, London, 26 June.
2019 P. de Souza Listening in Universities workshop, convened by Professor Leah Bassel, University of Roehampton, London, 26 June.
2018 P. de Souza EARWITNESS round table/working group, convened by Dr James Parker, Institute for International Law and the Humanities, and Liquid Architecture, 22 August, Melbourne.
2018 P. de Souza ALL EARS reading group on ‘The Sonic Color Line: race and the cultural politics of listening’, part of Eavesdropping public program and exhibition, co- curated by James Parker, Institute for International Law and the Humanities, Melbourne Law school, and Liquid Architecture, Melbourne, 27 June and 22-23 August.
2017 P. de Souza Acoustic Justice roundtable, Institute for International Law and the Humanities, Melbourne Law School, co-convened with UNSW Law, July.
2016 P. de Souza ‘Beyond Moral Claims to Voice? Rethinking media justice in the age of the ‘data subject’: from the Right to be Heard to the Right to be Forgotten’. Media Justice roundtable, co-convened by Gerard Goggin (USyd) and Tanja Dreher (UNSW), Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney, 11 April.
2015 P. de Souza ‘Listening Economies of Extraction: algorithmic and non-social listening in the post-Snowden, post-social media, post-privacy era’, The Politics of Listening artist-researcher forum, curated by Liquid Architecture for Melbourne Arts Festival, ACMI Melbourne, October.
Conferences, International - peer reviewed / academic
2022. P. de Souza ‘Resistance, Reclamation and Repair: The Parragirls feminist archive and reparative media practices in the wake of institutional harm and media damage’ (with T. Dreher). Panel: Dark Histories: Women, Memorialisation, Activism. 5th International Conference on Carceral Geography. University of Melbourne. 13-15 December.
2022. P. de Souza. ‘Unsettling the Settlements: decolonising narratives of mobility, identity, and Eurasian (be)longing, in and against the settler-colonial archive’. Cultural Studies Association of Australia (CSAA) Conference Bodies in Flux. Perth, WA, 28-29 June.
2019 P. de Souza ‘Listening to (ear)witness Breathless the podcast: contesting carceral logics, sounding human dignity’. International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) conference, UCM, Madrid, 7-11 July.
2019 P. de Souza and T. Dreher. ‘Dwelling in Discomfort: on the conditions of listening in settler colonial Australia’, panel: Conditions and Practices of Democratic Listening, Western Political Science Association (WPSA) conference, San Diego, 19-20 April.
2011 P. de Souza ‘Alternative Narratives of Health and Illness? Digital storytelling and visualizing voice’, conference presentation, The Language of Illness and Pain: Identity, Communication and the Clinical Encounter, Birkbeck College, University of London, November.
Conferences and symposia, Australia - peer reviewed / academic
2020 T. Dreher and P. de Souza. ‘‘The Difficulty of Deeper Conversations’: Key challenges for Australian community broadcasting in the digital age of disruption’. Panel: The collective value of community radio: studies from across the globe. 70th Annual International Communication Association conference, Gold Coast, 21-25 May.
2019 P. de Souza ‘Listening Beyond Crisis: attention, duration and endurance in how are you today. Panel: “how are you today: What can we hear beyond crisis, sound, and the carceral on Manus?”. Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia (LHAA) conference - Law in End Times. Southern Cross University, Gold Coast, 2-4 December.
2018 P. de Souza ‘Slow Listening and the Unsettling Ethics of Attention in Curtain the podcast’, International Australian Studies Association (InASA) 2018 conference: Unsettling Australia, University of Qld, 3-5 December.
2018 T. Dreher and P. de Souza ‘Listening Routes to Justice’, 2018 Visiting Scholars Seminar Series, Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University, 19 March.
2014 P. de Souza ‘New Economies of Voice: voice poverty and the politics of listening’, VCA Graduate Symposium, Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, July.
2012 P. de Souza ‘Creating Spaces for Voice: A co-creative approach to listening, recognition and dialogue’. 4th Art of Good Health and Wellbeing Annual International Arts and Health Conference, Fremantle, 26-29 November.
2011 P. de Souza ‘Video-as-process: Experiments in thinking with a video camera’, presentation, Culture and Community Researchers’ Network, Cultural Development Network, Melbourne, November.