Not Afraid of My Sponsor

Migrant Labor and Media Infrastructures in the Gulf

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12955667
AutoresClaire Cooley (0000-0003-2905-3299, Tufts University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen16
Número2
Páginas192-214
Fecha de publicación2023-05-12
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMiddle East Journal of Culture and Communication (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1873-9857 • E-ISSN: 1873-9865
EditorialBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/18739865-01602002
OpenAlexW4376645370
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas13

This article considers the role of media infrastructures in the U.A.E. racializing the South Asian migrant workers making, maintaining and interacting with them. Employing a sonic methodology, I historicize these infrastructures and legacies of racialization by considering the fiber optic cables carrying telecommunications in the region and their positioning along colonial trade routes, telegraph networks and other pathways connecting British colonies. These cables have more recently facilitated U.S. military interests and the growing importance of the U.A.E. as a hub for logistics. After analyzing sound and sound-related metaphors concerning the U.A.E. ’s increasing power as a media hub in the region, facilitated by its media infrastructures, I argue that we can ‘hear’ how media infrastructures exploit and racialize labor but also enable a space for laborers to come together and absorb the pressure of neoliberal work

Acoustics · Colonialism · Computer security · Exploit · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Racialization · Sociology · Sound (geography · Telecommunications · Work (physics · Computer Science · Engineering · Law · Music History and Culture · Mechanical Engineering

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