Migrant Media: Turkish Broadcasting and Multicultural Politics in Berlin

by Kira Kosnick

Overview

In this innovative and thought-provoking study, Kira Kosnick explores the landscape of Turkish-language broadcasting in Berlin. From 24-hour radio broadcasting in Turkish to programming on Germany's national public broadcasting and local public access channels, Germany's largest immigrant minority has made its presence felt in German media. Satellite dishes have appeared in migrant neighborhoods all over the city, giving viewers access to Kurdish channels and broadcasts from Turkey. Kosnick draws on interviews with producers, her own participation in production work, and analysis of programs to elaborate a new approach to "migrant media" in relation to the larger cultural and political spaces through which immigrant life is imagined and created.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253219374
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Publication date:	12/12/2007
Series:	New Anthropologies of Europe
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Kira Kosnick is Junior Professor of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main, Germany.

Table of Contents

Contents
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

What People are Saying About This

Universityof Chicago - Martin Stokes

[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.

Cornell University - Dominic Boyer

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.

Editorial Reviews

". . . a splendid, theoretically provocative, and productive ethnography.July 2009"—Y. Michal Bodemann, University of Toronto in Berlin

"[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. March 2011"—H-SAE, H-Net Reviews

"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

"[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

From the Publisher

[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. March 2011

H-Net Reviews H-SAE

. . . a splendid, theoretically provocative, and productive ethnography.July 2009

Universityof Toronto in Berlin - Y. Michal Bodemann

"[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

Martin Stokes

"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

Dominic Boyer

"... a splendid, theoretically provocative, and productive ethnography." —Y. Michal Bodemann, University of Toronto in Berlin, H-German, July 2009

— Y. Michal Bodemann, University of Toronto in Berlin

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