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Streets of Bordeaux

Streets of Bordeaux

By: Aria Allen
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Bordeaux, France. Summer 2024. I roam cobblestone streets, recorder in hand as I capture the sounds of the city and share the stories hidden within its homes, protests, and Olympic Games-hosting stadium.

Grab your headphones, close your eyes, and listen to the streets of Bordeaux as I analyze the importance of the summer's political turmoil to France's sociopolitical state and the Olympics as a means of recruiting investment.

This is a bilingual podcast with English narration and is a part of my senior thesis for the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media.

Find the recording scripts and bibliographies for both episodes within the written thesis that discusses the art of portraiture as a form of audio journalism: "Streets of Bordeaux: A Podcast About Portraiture and the Politicization of Identity."

The work is currently pending review and will be available upon approval.

Contact allena00@outlook.com with questions or feedback.

Aria Allen 2024 Political Science Politics & Government Social Sciences
Episodes
  • The Olympics

    The Olympics
    Apr 17 2025

    Bordeaux hosts the Olympic soccer quarter finals as part of France's strategy to accrue foreign investment and reduce its budget deficits. Hear the roar of the stadium as France plays Argentina; understand why France needs this foreign investment; listen to the cost of foreign investment to those displaced by it.
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    11 mins
  • The Election

    The Election
    Oct 20 2024

    Bordeaux's anti-fascist movement in response to this summer's snap parliamentary election called by President Macron. Hear the streets protest their pain; decide whether the historic first this election caused is a win; listen to the story of a couple brutally attacked by fascists the night before the first round of voting.
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    9 mins
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