Ecography of metal music concertscapes: Toward a new materialist sociology of events

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2026-8-17

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Çakmak Uçar, Bengi

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This thesis proposes a new materialist sociology of events and attends to the question of the materialization of the social through an event-oriented perspective. The proposed approach is based on a sociology of events and modes of spacetime that blends processual sociology and new materialist philosophy. The literature gap, to which this thesis aims to contribute, is demonstrated by the scarcity of approaches that directly orient toward a sociology of events and by the limitations of the existing ones, namely the prevalence of structural models, linear causality, and anthropocentrism. The critical ground of a new materialist sociology of events is constituted by immanent, contingent, and entangled assemblages along with more-than-human, material, and distributive agencies. Ecography is used as a post qualitative method in the methodology of this study. The ecographic research conducted in this study analyzes metal music concerts, concertscapes, and the scene as a sonic assemblage and an event. The four-year fieldwork was conducted through observations from within the ecographer–researcher position. As a distinctive aspect of this research, conducting interviews was not used as a research technique. The results of the research suggest two modes of materialization for analysis in the new materialist sociology of events. Expansion mode corresponds to the expansion and intensification of events while concerts take place here-and-now, and the materialization of concertscapes. Extension mode refers to the ways in which concertscapes act as events that materialize the music scene by producing persistent extensions and traces. In this regard, this thesis argues that events are productive and constitutive elements in sociology, materializing the social. It is discussed what sorts of impacts events can produce in the short and long term, through their dissemination and entanglement, as they intertwine with milieus and the urban space. Utilizing metal music concerts and the scene as an exemplary research field, the thesis also aims to contribute to the study of sonic milieus and scenes beyond an anthropocentric, structural, and symbolic understanding of culture.

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Sociology of events, New materialism, Ecography, Metal music concerts, Spacetime

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/120636

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis