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Listening and/as Technology in British Gibraltar, 1940-2013

This dissertation investigates the somatic politics of postcolonial masculinity and mass

media in British Gibraltar. Drawing on 14 months of ethnographic and archival research over the

course of 5 years in Gibraltar and London, I trace the interconnections between the ways of

listening promoted by colonial administrators and scientists in Gibraltar during the post-World

War II democratization of mass media and the contemporary listening practices of Gibraltarian

men as they engage with, think about, and decry the use of emerging media technologies

among women and children. Using a practice theoretical framework developed out of women's

studies, anthropology, and science and technology studies, I move beyond "reading" the sounds

that represent intersecting gender, race, and class stereotypes; instead, I examine how

Gibraltarian men's media listening practices are both product and productive of a complex calculus of

colonial masculine domination that legitimates British colonial violence - symbolic and physical

- in Gibraltar today. In this way, listening to media technologies is transformed into a political

technology for the maintenance and operationalization of colonialism in Gibraltar. / 10000-01-01

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:uoregon.edu/oai:scholarsbank.uoregon.edu:1794/19219
Date18 August 2015
CreatorsPeake, Bryce
ContributorsStabile, Carol
PublisherUniversity of Oregon
Source SetsUniversity of Oregon
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
RightsCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US

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