Introduction: Screen Media and ‘Middling Cities’ – Questioning Hierarchies, Dominant Narratives and Negative Associations

Lavinia Brydon, Sanele KaNtshingana, Janina Schupp

Sanele KaNtshingana

Sanele KaNtshingana is a lecturer in African Languages (IsiXhosa section) in the School of Languages and Literatures at the University of Cape Town. He is also a PhD candidate in Historical Studies in the same university and is affiliated with the Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative and the Andrew Mellon-funded, History Access programme. Sanele considers himself an ‘undisciplined’ young scholar who straddles History, African Languages and Literatures, inside and outside the university. Sanele is a Mandela-Washington Fellow and completed his Leadership in Civic Engagement Course at the University of Georgia – Fanning Institute for Leadership in 2019. Outside of the ivory towers, Sanele is engaged in various kollectives which are dreaming and building a (Black)conscious, confident, bold, self-assertive, and deep-thinking generation of young people. In Makhanda, Sanele leads Makhanda Black Kollective.

Dossiers, no. 3, vol. 9September 30, 2024<October 4, 2024

Introduction: Screen Media and ‘Middling Cities’ – Questioning Hierarchies, Dominant Narratives and Negative Associations

Lavinia Brydon, Sanele KaNtshingana and Janina Schupp

In their dossier introduction, the editors discuss the significance of “middling cities” to debates about media and urbanism, and make a case for the importance of looking beyond metropolitan centres and global media capitals.