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Interconnecting Empires:Towards a Global Radio History of the Axis Powers (1930–1939)
Get PDFThis article builds on the growing body of transnational studies of fascist imperialism and explores their value for media historical research. To establish a global radio history of the Axis powers, we argue that it is productive to examine the crucial role of radio in interactions between Germany, Italy and Japan during the period prior to World War II (1939–1945). Focusing on the 1930s, we first establish the concurrent and intertwined processes underpinning the imperialistic expansion of German, Italian and Japanese radio. We then point to the geopolitics of relay infrastructure, with an attention to programme exchanges and joint broadcasts, and their visible traces in radio archives. Finally, we identify several examples of how radio infrastructures served as powerful spaces for imagining global conquest and world domination. We conclude by critically evaluating this proposed research agenda and its potential to more fully integrate transimperial perspectives within radio history
Using Emplaced Ethnography, Mobility, and Listening to Research Memory
Get PDFThis chapter explores two examples of collective national remembrance that occur in the Netherlands on 4 and 5 May annually. A visual and sound-based ethnography was used to better understand the relationship between the practice of commemoration and its affect (Anderson 2004). On 4 May, the sounds of a silence march—through the streets of Amsterdam to the Dam Square—were recorded and complimented by video grabs of the march’s participants and onlookers. On 5 May, sounds and atmospheres (cf. Sumartojo 2015) were recorded at one of Holland’s biggest ‘freedom festivals’, named Bevrijdingspop, in Haarlem. We highlight how by paying more attention to the sounds (and images) rather than solely to text, we better understood the role they played in the co-constitution of commemorative spaces
Advancing Memory Methods
Get PDFThis introductory chapter provides an extended reflection on the scope of memory methods, charting the existing methods-based research, and how an affective turn in the humanities and social sciences has prompted scholars in memory studies to engage with more-than-human and embodied methodological approaches. The introduction also outlines the themes covered by the volume: an ethics of care, experiencing and emplaced (researcher) bodies, and places—mapped and digital. We summarise the contributions, explicating how they push traditional methodological boundaries in their engagement with multisensorial and embodied memory-work, and use memory places through mapping and digital media
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