Offshore Outlaws: Intimate Geopolitics at Sea

This chapter examines the ways in which the spaces where rebel radio was produced (the ship, at sea) created intimate soundscapes infused with geopolitical capacities. The chapter charts how the architecture of the ships and their location at sea were imbricated in the social conditions for crews of DJs on board, and how those situated crews were then themselves enfolded into the production of intimate, geopolitical soundscapes through the spatial organisation of their offshore workplace. The chapter draws upon literatures concerned with ‘intimate geopolitics’, pushing these in new directions through an investigation of radio—the most intimate of mass communications mediums.