‘Traveling-in-dwelling, dwelling-in-traveling’: producing multicultural Canada through narrations of mobility on CBC Radio’s Fuse

This case study of Fuse, a live concert-style radio programme produced between 2005 and 2008 by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), explores the distinctive ways that travel and mobility were narrated on air. I suggest that there are meaningful correlations between the discursive tropes that I label ‘transit’ and ‘road’ narratives, and the patterns of representation found on Fuse. These correlations contribute to maintaining hierarchical discourses about Canadian social relations in the face of policies and discourses relating to multiculturalism.