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Accepted Paper:
Sonic hope: online community radio and the Palestinian struggle for liberation
Ema Gonçalves
(Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies)
This research explores the transformative role of online community radio within the context of Palestinian resistance, focusing on it's potential to embody care and foster international solidarity through sound.
Paper Abstract:
This paper explores the role of internet community radio in the Palestinian resistance, focusing on its potential to foster international solidarity across borders. It also investigates the potential of community radio to embody sumud, a Palestinian concept of steadfastness and resilience, and exist as a space for community care. This research aims to understand the importance of community radio in shaping and disseminating the Palestinian narrative and identity, while also assessing its contribution to the Palestinian liberation struggle. In pursuit of these objectives, the study employs a digital ethnography of Radio Alhara, drawing on relevant literature connected to protests on the sonic ground, active listening and cross-border broadcasting. This study underscores the importance of a committed scholarship, rooted in the community and a collaborative approach that questions the potential of decolonizing anthropology, and its contribution to the study of Palestine and is summarized in a e-zine format.