@article{404ef4a5b11e436a9beee2936eec0da1,
title = "Rural radio and the everyday politics of settlement on Indigenous land",
abstract = "The Australian Broadcasting Corporation{\textquoteright}s Country Hour radio programmes are produced regionally and promote specific understandings of rurality. This article presents an analysis that shows Indigenous people and issues are rarely sources or topics in Country Hour, and that stories about Indigenous land use are generally broadcast only if the land is used in a way that is seen as {\textquoteleft}productive{\textquoteright} through settler colonial eyes. It also argues the programme should include Indigenous voices and understandings of the land in imagining this space. It makes a theoretical contribution to media studies by extending on concepts of the {\textquoteleft}rural imaginary{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteleft}settler common sense{\textquoteright} to argue that the programme perpetuates a discourse that legitimates and valorises the use of {\textquoteleft}rural{\textquoteright} space for non-Indigenous people, concepts and activities. Indigenous people are noticeably absent and silent. Country Hour is therefore conceptualised as a media space that continues to transmit settler colonialism and its attendant myths.",
keywords = "agrarian imaginary, Australian broadcasting corporation, Country Hour, indigenous voice, media and countryside, radio, rural, settler colonialism",
author = "Lisa Waller and Emma Mesik{\"a}mmen and Brian Burkett",
note = "Funding Information: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2689-8010 Waller Lisa RMIT University, Australia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8983-2350 Mesik{\"a}mmen Emma La Trobe University, Australia Burkett Brian Independent researcher, Australia Lisa Waller, School of Media and Communication, 124 La Trobe Street, Melbourne Victoria 3000. Email:
[email protected] 10 2019 0163443719876620 {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2019 2019 SAGE Publications The Australian Broadcasting Corporation{\textquoteright}s Country Hour radio programmes are produced regionally and promote specific understandings of rurality. This article presents an analysis that shows Indigenous people and issues are rarely sources or topics in Country Hour , and that stories about Indigenous land use are generally broadcast only if the land is used in a way that is seen as {\textquoteleft}productive{\textquoteright} through settler colonial eyes. It also argues the programme should include Indigenous voices and understandings of the land in imagining this space. It makes a theoretical contribution to media studies by extending on concepts of the {\textquoteleft}rural imaginary{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteleft}settler common sense{\textquoteright} to argue that the programme perpetuates a discourse that legitimates and valorises the use of {\textquoteleft}rural{\textquoteright} space for non-Indigenous people, concepts and activities. Indigenous people are noticeably absent and silent. Country Hour is therefore conceptualised as a media space that continues to transmit settler colonialism and its attendant myths. agrarian imaginary Australian broadcasting corporation Country Hour indigenous voice media and countryside radio rural settler colonialism edited-state corrected-proof Funding The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article. ORCID iDs Lisa Jane Waller https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2689-8010 Emma Mesik{\"a}mmen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8983-2350 Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2019.",
year = "2020",
month = sep,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1177/0163443719876620",
language = "English",
volume = "42",
pages = "805--822",
journal = "Media, Culture and Society",
issn = "0163-4437",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Ltd",
number = "6",
}
