Voicing Diasporas

Nabil Echchaibi is assistant professor of journalism and media studies and associate director of the Center for Media, Religion and Culture at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

• Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Local Bonds, Global Ties: Updating the Concept of DiasporaChapter 3: Diasporic Media: Beyond the Ethnic Fault LinesChapter 4: The Limits of French Universalism: Beur FM and Assimilation Through DifferenceChapter 5: Radio MultiKulti: Challenging or Sustaining the German HeimatChapter 6: Re-Orienting Diasporic Media Research: Some ConclusionsChapter 7 Bibliography

Voicing Diasporas is a significant contribution to the fields of media studies and of cultural studies because it argues that the media, particularly that produced in diaspora, constitute a key site for identity formation. Whereas ethnic media have often been discarded, by academics and politicians alike, for various reasons, this manuscript is a good attempt to show that ethnic media should be conceived of as a diasporic/ethnic public sphere 'where traditions are celebrated and debated, ideas are created and reinvented, and cultures are avowed and challenged.'