Episode 2: Chronotopes and Media
This episode’s main focus centers around media analysis, particularly the type of analysis that facilitates a more diverse approach toward understanding and framing media subjects within various narratives. To that end, I explore the concept of the “chronotope,” offering some origins, definitions, and uses of the term, qualifying its use in media narratives and offering a contrasting comparison with the concept of the “archetype,” which is somewhat more popularized in global literature and media conversations. This analytical deep dive gets to the heart of how I approach media study.
Along the way, I will highlight a band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, Strange New Places, who released an EP this past October, and I will briefly discuss #WetsuwetenStrong, recent settler colonial mistreatment of Indigenous rights and sovereignty, and misrepresentation of Indigenous people and current politics as visible in media.
Sources and recommended readings
Transcript [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h9SviuPhwLlCPoADON25ne9HzayvUL1rM6x01B_GnbU/]
Today’s retrospect: “#WetsuwetenStrong / Indigenous Sovereignty”
Real Peoples Media and #TyendinagaStrong [https://bit.ly/32Ayv5V]
Red Braid Alliance for Decolonialism and Socialism [https://twitter.com/stopdisplacemnt/status/1230935862256340993]
The Intercept, Article on Recent Wet’suwet’en resistance [https://theintercept.com/2020/02/23/wetsuweten-protest-coastal-gaslink-pipeline/]
Indigenous Youth in Support of Wetsuweten Hereditary Chiefs [https://globalnews.ca/news/6580747/indigenous-youth-occupy-melanie-marks-office/ ]
Today’s Highlight: “Music and Human Rights in Northern Ireland”
Strange New Places on bandcamp [https://strangenewplaces.bandcamp.com/track/this-city-2]
A recent Guardian article about music and human rights in Northern Ireland [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/sep/27/basic-human-rights-are-being-rejected-northern-irelands-anti-dup-protest-music]
Today’s main focus: “Chronotopes and Media”
Bakhtin’s Theory of the Literary Chronotope [http://library.umac.mo/ebooks/b28005533.pdf]
“Intersectionality and Chronotopes” [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09687599.2020.1719041?scroll=top&needAccess=true]
“What is Intersectionality” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViDtnfQ9FHc]
“Intersectionality is not Identity” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPtz8TiATJY]
Russel Brand on Hot Ones [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHTR-XF6MXU ]
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The ethnomedialogue podcast is a bi-weekly audio presentation dedicated to the critical exploration of media narratives in the digital age. Our primary goal is to investigate power and representation in media--specifically the structure, scope, and the ideology of media narratives. I am interested in the gap between where culture is performed and where it is defined, and I think in our present world, media sits in the middle of that gap where it represents the primary mode of control over the articulation of “Culture,” broadly interpreted, and subsequently our (various communities’) connection to it. Research, writing, editing, music, and narration by me, Bret Woods (pronouns: they/them/their). If you like what I'm doing, and would like access to our Discord community, as well as behind-the-scenes posts, music, reading recommendations and discussions for each episode, and more, please consider supporting this work on Patreon.
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