Revista ‘RadioDoc Review’ recebe artigos para dossiê sobre produções de áudio no Sul Global

18 de maio de 2023

A revista RadioDoc Review, periódico internacional publicado pela Universidade de Wollongong (Austrália), está com chamada aberta para o dossiê “Crafted Audio, Narrative Podcasting and the Global South” (Áudio artesanal, produção de podcasts narrativos e o Sul Global, em tradução livre). O prazo para submissão de artigos é 31 de outubro.

Para esse dossiê, os(as) editores(as) buscam contribuições que analisem áudio-documentários, podcasts narrativos ou produções artesanais em áudio no Sul Global. “Com ‘Sul’, nos referimos a um local de posicionamento conceitual, e não uma divisão estritamente geográfica; um espaço ocupado pelos marginalizados ou pelos colonizados. Assim, é um espaço que também pode ser definido pelas noções de comunidade, atuação coletiva e subalternidade”, escrevem os(as) editores(as) na chamada.

A chamada de trabalhos não está publicada no site da revista, que atualmente passa por uma atualização. Confira o texto (em inglês) a seguir:

CfP: Crafted Audio, Narrative Podcasting and the Global South

RadioDoc Review, Volume 9, Issue 1

(Deadline: Oct 31 2023 for peer reviewed articles, Dec 31st for non-peer reviewed items.)

We’re seeking contributions for a special edition of RadioDoc Review on audio documentary, narrative podcasting or crafted audio in the Global South.

It’s a decade since a new ‘golden age’ of podcasting was heralded in the wake of the unprecedented success of Serial (2014). In the years since, a rich ecology of radiogenic renaissance has been celebrated in the Global North, with one strand of podcasting and crafted audio closely aligned to the tradition of the ‘feature’ developed in northern Europe in the 20th century. Another strand, that of serialised narrative nonfiction podcasting with superlative sound design, has developed in North America, Australia and other anglophone regions.

The voices and sounds of the Global South are largely missing from this canon, as well as from much of the theorisation and praxis-based analysis of the crafted audio form – although we greatly welcome the recent publication of Sound Practices in the Global South: Co-listening to Resounding Plurilogues by Budhaditya Chattopadhyay (2022). Maybe these absences are anchored in a failure to hear the work produced outside the Global North (by those in the North). Or could our very definitions of audio documentary be too narrow?

Furthermore, crafted audio success is often yoked to neoliberal conceptions of authenticity and intimacy. Although there has been a welcome increase in scholars and practitioners pushing against these individualised ideals – including Jess Shane’s (2022) impassioned appeal for an anti-capitalist ‘Third Podcasting’ in this journal – it remains the case that podcasting’s interrelations with ideas of indigeneity, pluriversality and decoloniality have too often been overlooked.

This issue of RadioDoc Review therefore seeks to challenge and reshape our understanding of core conceptions of podcasting, of radio/audio documentary, and of the very terrain of audio’s ‘new golden age’ by tuning in to the audio of the Global South(s).

By ‘South’ we mean a conceptual location of positionality rather than of strict geographical divide, a space occupied by the marginalised or the colonised. In turn, it is a space that can also be defined through notions of community, of collective agency and of subalternity.

We invite scholars and practitioners to submit original written contributions on Global South podcasting and crafted audio or documentary. Audio produced in any language is welcome as the subject of critique. We particularly seek contributions from those based in Asia (including West Asia or the ‘Middle East’), Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. We also seek to prioritise contributions from those who are of minoritised status (broadly conceived). Early career and PhD scholars are also welcome.

What we publish:

• In-depth reviews of audio work (3000 words)

• Scholarly articles and essays (6500 words – peer reviewed)

• Short provocations: opinion pieces or discussion prompts (max 1500 words)

• Book reviews and in-depth interviews with audio makers (3000 words)

Our website is currently being updated. In the meantime, if you would like more detail on the scope, focus, structure etc. of what we’re looking for, or if you would like to propose an item of any kind, please contact the journal editors:

Aasiya Lodhi (a.lodhi@westminster.ac.uk)

Abigail Wincott (abigail.wincott@falmouth.ac.uk)