ABSTRACT Almost 18 years after the podcast medium first emerged, 2018 has witnessed its resurgence. With approximately six million (11%) of the UK population now listening to podcasts in an average week, the podcast renaissance raises new questions about the relationship between cultural production, consumption and representation. This paper explores the significance of the new wave of podcasts, specifically with regards to racial politics in the UK and its potential power as an anti-racist tool. Through a series of interview and focus group discussions with black and Asian podcasters in the UK, it asks what role podcasts play in providing an alternative space for ‘communities of resistance’. These issues are examined against the dual contexts in the UK of an intensifyingly hostile environment for black and minority ethnic groups and a digital and creative sector marked by social and cultural inequalities. The article suggests that in a ‘post fact’ international climate of disinformation that bolsters populist rhetoric around minority cultural groups, podcasts have become a rare space for articulating the lived experiences of these groups, whilst also challenging broader patterns of racialized disenfranchisement, including in the creative industries. Podcasts facilitate new forms of social affiliation and anti-racism; which we analyse through Fraser’s concept of “subaltern counterpublics” to unveil the interruptive potentiality of the medium for marginalised communities seeking to make accessible alternative representations and perspectives on the relationship between race and society.

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表达生活经验和反种族主义：播客作为底层反公众的边缘空间

摘要 在播客媒体首次出现近 18 年后，2018 年见证了它的复兴。平均每周约有 600 万（11%）英国人口在收听播客，播客的复兴提出了关于文化生产、消费和表现之间关系的新问题。本文探讨了新一波播客的重要性，特别是关于英国的种族政治及其作为反种族主义工具的潜在力量。通过对英国黑人和亚洲播客的一系列采访和焦点小组讨论，它询问播客在为“抵抗社区”提供替代空间方面发挥了什么作用。在英国对黑人和少数族裔群体日益敌对的环境以及以社会和文化不平等为特征的数字和创意部门的双重背景下，对这些问题进行了研究。这篇文章表明，在“事后”的国际虚假信息氛围中，支持围绕少数文化群体的民粹主义言论，播客已成为表达这些群体生活经历的罕见空间，同时也挑战了更广泛的种族剥夺权利模式，包括在创意产业。播客促进了新形式的社会归属和反种族主义；