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Book SynopsisExplores the landscape of Turkish-language broadcasting in Berlin. This work elaborates a different approach to "migrant media" in relation to the larger cultural and political spaces through which immigrant life is imagined and created.
Trade Review"[Kosnick's] work contributes not only to the anthropology of media, but also to other areas of anthropology, such as community and migration studies. Her work is truly timely, as it offers answers to questions that German politicians are now (again) asking with populist overtones." —H-SAE, H-Net Reviews, March 2011
"[D]irectly addresses a burgeoning field of inquiry concerned with multiculturalism in Europe and the formation of transnational public spheres.... [A] model of clarity and rigor in its arguments, and the case study material is presented in a sympathetic and engaging way." —Martin Stokes, University of Chicago
"This book makes an excellent contribution to existing scholarly literatures on media and migration in Europe [and also] helps to define a new subfield in the anthropology of media, which I might call 'migrant media' in comparison with the literature on 'indigenous media' from the 1980s and 1990s." —Dominic Boyer, Cornell University
"... a splendid, theoretically provocative, and productive ethnography." —Y. Michal Bodemann, University of Toronto in Berlin, H-German, July 2009
Table of ContentsContents<\>
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. The History of Broadcasting for Migrants in Germany
3. Foreign Voices—Migrant Representation on Radio MultiKulti
4. The Gap between Culture and Cultures
5. Bringing the Nation Back In: Media Nationalism between Local and Transnational Articulations
6. Coping with "Extremism": Migrant Television Production on Berlin's Open Channel
7. Signifying with a Difference: Migrant Mediations in Local and Transnational Contexts
8. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
