Not Afraid of My Sponsor

IF 0.4 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
C. Cooley
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This article considers the role of media infrastructures in the U.A.E. racializing the South Asian migrant workers making, maintaining and interacting with them. Employing a sonic methodology, I historicize these infrastructures and legacies of racialization by considering the fiber optic cables carrying telecommunications in the region and their positioning along colonial trade routes, telegraph networks and other pathways connecting British colonies. These cables have more recently facilitated U.S. military interests and the growing importance of the U.A.E. as a hub for logistics. After analyzing sound and sound-related metaphors concerning the U.A.E.’s increasing power as a media hub in the region, facilitated by its media infrastructures, I argue that we can ‘hear’ how media infrastructures exploit and racialize labor but also enable a space for laborers to come together and absorb the pressure of neoliberal work.
不怕我的赞助商
本文探讨了阿联酋媒体基础设施对南亚移民工人的种族化作用,包括制作、维护和与他们互动。运用声学方法,我将这些基础设施和种族化的遗产历史化,通过考虑在该地区传输电信的光纤电缆,以及它们在殖民地贸易路线、电报网络和连接英国殖民地的其他途径上的位置。这些电报最近促进了美国的军事利益和阿联酋作为物流中心日益重要的地位。在分析了声音和声音相关的隐喻后,我认为,在媒体基础设施的推动下,阿联酋作为该地区媒体中心的权力日益增强,我们可以“听到”媒体基础设施如何剥削和种族化劳工,但也为劳工提供了一个空间,让他们走到一起,吸收新自由主义工作的压力。
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Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication
Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-
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期刊介绍: The Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication provides a transcultural academic sphere that engages Middle Eastern and Western scholars in a critical dialogue about culture, communication and politics in the Middle East. It also provides a forum for debate on the region’s encounters with modernity and the ways in which this is reshaping people’s everyday experiences. MEJCC’s long-term objective is to provide a vehicle for developing the field of study into communication and culture in the Middle East. The Journal encourages work that reconceptualizes dominant paradigms and theories of communication to take into account local cultural particularities.
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