Ripatti-Torniainen , L & Stachyra , G 2019 , ' The human core of the public realm : women prisoners’ performed ‘radio’ at the Majdanek concentration camp ' , Media, Culture & Society , vol. 41 , no. 5 , pp. 654–669 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443719848584
Title: | The human core of the public realm : women prisoners’ performed ‘radio’ at the Majdanek concentration camp |
Alternative title: | Julkisuuden inhimillinen ydin : Majdanekin keskitysleirin naisvankien 'radio' |
Author: | Ripatti-Torniainen, Leena; Stachyra, Grazyna |
Contributor organization: | P3 - Publics, Politics & Promotions Department of Social Research (2010-2017) Faculty of Social Sciences Media and Communication Studies |
Date: | 2019-07-01 |
Language: | eng |
Number of pages: | 16 |
Belongs to series: | Media, Culture & Society |
ISSN: | 0163-4437 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443719848584 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10138/303704 |
Abstract: | The article elaborates Hannah Arendt’s thought on the public realm to analyze the performed ‘radio’ that women prisoners ‘produced’ with their voice at the Majdanek concentration camp, Poland, in Spring 1943. The authors reconstruct the rationale that clarifies why an image of a radio was meaningful at a death camp. The documented memories reveal that the ‘radio’ created a resistant, harm-preventing and despair-relieving space. Mobilizing the meanings Arendt gives to the public realm as the shared reference and shared belonging, the authors show that the memories point towards the prisoners’ efforts to break their exclusion by decisively continuing their belonging to the public world through their own performance. In Arendt’s concepts, ‘broadcasting’ and listening to ‘programmes’ actualized prisoners’ being and subjectivity, the both of which were under constant assaults. Conceptualized through Arendt’s thought, the performed ‘radio’ reveals amid the extreme exclusion, isolation and cruelty of the death camp how profoundly meaningful the public realm is to humans. The article elaborates Hannah Arendt’s thought on the public realm to analyze the performed ‘radio’ that women prisoners ‘produced’ with their voice at the Majdanek concentration camp, Poland, in Spring 1943. The authors reconstruct the rationale that clarifies why an image of a radio was meaningful at a death camp. The documented memories reveal that the ‘radio’ created a resistant, harm-preventing and despair-relieving space. Mobilizing the meanings Arendt gives to the public realm as the shared reference and shared belonging, the authors show that the memories point towards the prisoners’ efforts to break their exclusion by decisively continuing their belonging to the public world through their own performance. In Arendt’s concepts, ‘broadcasting’ and listening to ‘programmes’ actualized prisoners’ being and subjectivity, the both of which were under constant assaults. Conceptualized through Arendt’s thought, the performed ‘radio’ reveals amid the extreme exclusion, isolation and cruelty of the death camp how profoundly meaningful the public realm is to humans. |
Subject: |
Hannah Arendt
action concentration camp exclusion public realm radio resistance social participation 518 Media and communications 611 Philosophy |
Peer reviewed: | Yes |
Rights: | cc_by_nc |
Usage restriction: | openAccess |
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