[Commlist] CFP RadioDoc Review special on Crafted Audio, Narrative Podcasting and the Global South

*CfP: Crafted Audio, Narrative Podcasting and the Global South*

/RadioDoc Review/, Volume 9, Issue 1

(Deadline: Oct 31 2023 for peer reviewed articles, Dec 31^st 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. We accept full articles, reviews and short 'provocations' 
- see below.

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 20^th 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/ 
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-99732-8>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 <https://ro.uow.edu.au/rdr/vol8/iss1/4/>) 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 <https://ro.uow.edu.au/rdr/>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 /at/ westminster.ac.uk))  and Abigail Wincott
    ((abigail.wincott /at/ falmouth.ac.uk))



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