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In this chapter, Miranda Barrios perceives radio as a tool able to perform a sonorous space for discourse and praxis. As an immigrant from Guatemala who came to Canada to escape the civil war, Miranda Barrios became a radio producer herself. In her analysis, she negotiates her own positionality through radio, emphasizing that it may be conceived as a connective medium of social transformation motivated by a utopian impulse. Referring to the case of América Latina al Día [Latin America today], she argues that this radio program based in Vancouver has historically constituted an exercise of cultural agency for immigrants and locals alike.
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Miranda Barrios, C. (2017). Could Bilingual Radio Be Utopian? Latin American Sound Performance Through Radio in Western Canada. In: Beauchesne, K., Santos, A. (eds) Performing Utopias in the Contemporary Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56873-1_13
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