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  • Foreign Voices
    Kosnick, Kira

    Radio Fields, 11/2012
    Book Chapter

    This chapter examines radio practices among peoples and institutions whose social lives contest old boundaries and create new spaces of imagination from which to engage the global reordering of politics and economics. Drawing on the author's fieldwork material gathered in the context of working as an intern and freelance journalist at Berlin's public-service radio station Radio MultiKulti, the chapter considers how Radio MultiKulti—given its stated mission to give a voice to ethnic minorities on its airwaves—negotiated the difficulties associated with rendering ethno-cultural diversity audible on its airwaves. It argues that Radio MultiKulti's self-conscious participation in a global discourse of “the voice” as a site for resistance undermines its claims to give a voice to immigrants and to contribute to minority empowerment.