Radio geopolitics: Imaginative geographies of Europe's migration 'crisis' on BBC Radio 4
Radio geopolitics: Imaginative geographies of Europe's migration 'crisis' on BBC Radio 4
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广播地缘政治：BBC 广播 4 台上欧洲移民“危机”的想象地理
DOI：
10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.102993
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发表时间：
2023
影响因子：
4.1
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Watson A
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Watson A
地理学家已经研究了无线电的历史、物质性和地缘政治学，但对当代无线电广播及其塑造地理想象力的能力兴趣相对较少。这是令人惊讶的，因为无线电无处不在，广受欢迎，它在向大众传播全球新闻和时事方面发挥着持久的作用。本文反映了媒体代表人和地方的力量，并通过探索BBC Radio 4如何构建2014年1月至2019年3月期间被迫迁移到欧洲和难民定居的富有想象力的地理，来规范想象中的身份和归属感社区。它加入了最近在地理学方面的努力，通过对172个无线电广播的专题分析，采用倾听的方法，揭示了两种截然不同的富有想象力的移徙地理学：第一种是“危机”的地缘政治想象，以新闻广播为例，从自上而下、以国家为中心的角度进行报道，并由“专家”的声音，主要是政治家加以阐述;第二，一种以地方为基础的、身临其境的、多感官的想象，以“专题”节目为例，探讨“实地”的个人故事和经历，并由多种声音，特别是难民的声音表达出来。Radio 4是一个多样化和矛盾的新闻故事空间，它邀请了多种方式来倾听，理解和想象人们在移动中。通过关注广播4和欧洲移民“危机”的可听故事，本文展示了如何通过声音和口语构建富有想象力的地理，并证明了广播的想象力，话语和声音的力量。
Geographers have examined the history, materiality, and geopolitics of radio but there has been relatively little interest in contemporary radio broadcasting and its capacity to shape geographical imaginations. This is surprising given the ubiquity and popularity of radio, and its enduring role in communicating global news and current affairs to mass audiences. This article reflects on the power of media to represent people and places, and regulate imagined communities of identity and belonging by exploring how BBC Radio 4 constructs imaginative geographies of forced migration to, and refugee settlement in, Europe between January 2014 and March 2019. It joins recent efforts in geography to engage in methodologies of listening through a thematic analysis of 172 radio broadcasts that reveals two contrasting imaginative geographies of migration: first, a geopolitical imaginary of ‘crisis’, exemplified in news broadcasts, that reports from a top-down, state-centric perspective and is articulated by ‘expert’ voices, principally politicians; and second, a place-based, immersive, multi-sensory imaginary, exemplified in ‘feature’ programmes, that explores personal stories and experiences ‘on the ground’, and is articulated by multiple voices, most notably refugees. Radio 4 emerges as a diverse and contradictory space of journalistic storytelling which invites multiple ways of listening to, understanding, and imagining people on the move. By focusing on Radio 4 and the audible story of Europe's migration ‘crisis’, the article demonstrates how imaginative geographies are constructed through sounds and the spoken word, and evidences radio's imaginative, discursive, and sonic power.