Frantz Fanon's Radio: Solidarity, Diaspora, and the Tactics of Listening

Baucom, Ian

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“…Notes 1 Some of the documents collected and reviewed include circulated federal and state research reports, meeting agendas, program reports, marketing materials, course materials, informational flyers for courses, handouts used in digital courses, sample resumes, job postings, creative materials (e.g., digital music produced in sites), website screenshots and other materials. 2 For a discussion of the intersection of Fanon (1965) and Anderson (1991) see Ian Baucom's (2001) essay "Frantz Fanon's Radio: Solidarity, Diaspora, and the Tactics of Listening." 3 Many other scholars have examined the emancipatory potential of media.…”

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Emancipatory Broadband Adoption: Toward a Critical Theory of Digital Inequality in the Urban United States

Wolfson

Crowell

Reyes

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Communication, Culture & Critique

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Drawing on 2 years of ethnographic research that included an engaged participant component, this article seeks to build a critical theory of technology adoption in urban communities. While the high cost of broadband Internet is undeniably an obstacle to adoption, we argue that solving the problem of cost is a necessary but not sufficient solution to the digital divide. To this end, the article contends that a community's relationship to communication technology—and their ability to see it as a political and cultural tool that can be utilized not just instrumentally, but more broadly as a way to fight poverty, inequality, and other forms of oppression—is a substantial factor leading to what we call emancipatory adoption.

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“…For a discussion of the intersection of Fanon () and Anderson () see Ian Baucom's () essay “Frantz Fanon's Radio: Solidarity, Diaspora, and the Tactics of Listening.”…”

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Emancipatory Broadband Adoption: Toward a Critical Theory of Digital Inequality in the Urban United States

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Communication, Culture & Critique

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“…This resists reinscribing race, while revealing the continued, if elusive, functioning of racialized meanings. Listening to the use of race distinguishes this research methodologically from the emphasis in contact theory on “looking.” Politically, Baucom (2001) argues that listening offers the possibility of solidarities based on different transformative engagements with the same political issue, rather than solidarities impoverished by their insistence on fictional sameness, such as racial membership. Listening to the ways in which actors position themselves politically, as opposed to the habit of reading people's politics off their skin, opens possibilities for a language of identification and for solidarities outside of racial categories.…”

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Contact Theory: Too Timid for “Race” and Racism

Erasmus

2010

Journal of Social Issues

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This article extends critiques of contact theory. It notes four deeper limitations:(1) what I call a "psychometric imaginary"; (2) an assumption that "race" is given, homogeneous and stable; (3) contact/noncontact dualism; and (4) inattention to whiteness. These limitations locate contact theory within raciological thought, making contact a reformist, rather than transformative antiracist strategy. I suggest an alternative: a critical literacy for the use of "race." Contrary to Pettigrew's (1998) call for conceptual economy, I argue that conceptual expansion better serves understanding the tenacity of "race" and complexities of racism(s). Contrary to the psychometric imaginary of contact theory, I suggest that we need a visionary political imaginary for an antiracist world. I conclude that the key question for transforming intergroup relations in South Africa is not "which conditions," and "what kinds of" contact are necessary, but "what kinds of politics, knowing, seeing and belonging" are necessary for critical antiracist praxis.

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“…The spatial traversing of the technology becomes metaphorized as the underlying structure of felt community that is not just wired up in sympathy but in combat: “listening,” Ian Baucom writes, “no longer functions as a simple act of consumption. It becomes a tactical activity, an act of guerilla warfare in which the radio dial substitutes for the trigger” (Baucom :24). Even in the absence of speech, the physical relay of the message is achieved by the correct performance required of the medium.…”

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Occupied Airwaves: Determinist Fantasies in the Radio Projects of Occupation and Anti‐Occupation

King

2014

Transforming Anthropology

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In this article, I think about some of the ways in which the designs and fantasies surrounding radio infrastructures were shared by political and cultural movements either side of occupation, with particular attention to Algeria and Ireland. I ask what characterized these fantasies? How did they imagine new relations of space, time, and cultural integration? What kinds of assumptions about geography, people, and technology underpin these initial designs? How was radio instrumental to the imagining of possibly imminent futures in both colonial occupation and anticolonial resistance movements? I conclude that the material histories of radio reveal the way in which radio produced new communities of affiliation and belonging, beyond the bounds of the nation imagined by either colonial or anticolonial movements.

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Frantz Fanon's Radio: Solidarity, Diaspora, and the Tactics of Listening

Cited by 53 publications

References 4 publications

Emancipatory Broadband Adoption: Toward a Critical Theory of Digital Inequality in the Urban United States

Emancipatory Broadband Adoption: Toward a Critical Theory of Digital Inequality in the Urban United States

Contact Theory: Too Timid for “Race” and Racism

Occupied Airwaves: Determinist Fantasies in the Radio Projects of Occupation and Anti‐Occupation

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