The events of 9/11 have cast a shadow of suspicion on Muslims in Western Europe and fostered a public discourse of arbitrary associations with violence and resistance to social and cultural ...integration. The antagonistic ascendancy of militant Islam globally and the anxiety this has engendered are animating day-to-day debates on the place and loyalty of Muslims in Western societies. Exploring the neglected reality of ethnic radio in Paris and Berlin, Voicing Diasporas: Ethnic Radio in Paris and Berlin Between Cultural Renewal and Retention examines how Muslim minorities of North African descent in France and Germany resist these glaring generalizations and challenge bounded narratives and laws of cultural citizenship in both countries. Through an analysis of Beur FM in Paris and Radio Multikulti in Berlin, this book also questions the reductionist view of diasporic media as expressions of longing, nostalgia, and cultural dislocation. This ground-breaking study is as essential read for not only scholars and higher educational students in various fields, but for those interested in this ever-changing, topical issue.
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.
Radio Fields Ginsburg, Faye
Radio Fields,
11/2012
Book Chapter
In this afterword, the author reflects on the connection between anthropology and radio as well as radio's significance as an object of ethnographic inquiry and theorization. The author first shares ...a personal story on how she became involved in the making of this book, whose editors exemplify two key pathways to research on radio among anthropologists: happy accident and strategic choice. This is evident in the chapters on the use of two-way radio among Ayoreo speakers in the Gran Chaco region, free radio in Mexico, Radio MultiKulti in Germany, and radio in Indigenous communities of Latin America and Australia. These and other chapters demonstrate the considerable differences that characterize the radio fields. The author groups the contributions in this book along five “axes” to stress some of the key features of radio as a social practice: The Voice, Radio and Nation, Community Radio, Transnational Circuits, and Language and Perception. She concludes by sharing her own ethnographic notes on the radio fields she inhabits in New York to show how radio shapes her experience and multiple subjectivities.
