The production of ' From Our Own Correspondent ' on BBC Radio 4: A popular geopolitical analysis
The production of ' From Our Own Correspondent ' on BBC Radio 4: A popular geopolitical analysis
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BBC 广播第四台制作的“From Our Own Correspondent”：流行的地缘政治分析
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Watson A
广播作为一种能够塑造听众地理想象力的媒介，在地理学领域很少受到关注，特别是与摄影、电视和电影等视觉媒体相比。本文通过考察《来自我们自己的通讯员》(FOOC) 的制作来纠正这种不平衡，该节目是 BBC 广播四台运行时间最长的节目之一，自 1955 年以来一直广播来自世界各地记者的快讯。本文探讨了 FOOC 通过构建遥远的人和地点的地理想象来为听众书写世界的代表性力量；询问谁是“我们的”通讯员以及支持其声音被听到的结构；并揭示了塑造节目制作及其广播的地缘政治脚本的隐藏实践、空间性和时间性。在此过程中，本文对大众地缘政治做出了重大而及时的贡献，大众地缘政治是政治地理学的一个子领域，传统上专注于解构“文本”中的地缘政治话语和想象，而忽视了调查媒体“制造”的地点、方式和原因。它借鉴了对 FOOC 的主持人、两名制片人和四名记者进行的原始采访，并反思了该节目的制作揭示了 FOOC 如何理解、概念化和描绘世界。通过探索 FOOC，本文提供了对隐藏的生产地理的重要见解，这些地理将 BBC 广播新闻作为流行地缘政治的声音媒介进行管理。
The production of radio, a medium with the power to shape listeners' geographical imaginations, has received little attention in geography, particularly in comparison to visual media such as photography, television and film. This paper redresses this imbalance by examining the production ofFrom Our Own Correspondent(FOOC), one of BBC Radio 4's longest‐running programmes which has broadcast dispatches from journalists around the world since 1955. It explores the representational power of FOOC to script the world for listeners by constructing geographical imaginaries of distant people and places; interrogates who ‘Our’ correspondents are and the structures which underpin whose voices are heard; and reveals the concealed practices, spatialities and temporalities which shape the programme's production and geopolitical scripts it broadcasts. In doing so, the paper makes a significant and timely contribution to popular geopolitics, a subfield of political geography which has traditionally focused on deconstructing geopolitical discourses and imaginaries in ‘texts’, at the expense of investigating where, how and why media are ‘made’. It draws on original interviews conducted with FOOC's presenter, two producers and four correspondents, and reflects on what the programme's production reveals about how FOOC understands, conceptualises and portrays the world. By exploring FOOC, the paper offers important insights into the hidden geographies of production which govern BBC radio journalism as a sonic medium of popular geopolitics.