ISBN:
9780520270688
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (323 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
South Asia across the disciplines
Series Statement:
South Asia Across the Disciplines Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version Voicing Subjects : Public Intimacy and Mediation in Kathmandu
DDC:
302.2095496
Keywords:
Communication ; Political aspects ; Nepal ; Kathmandu
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Mass media ; Nepal ; Kathmandu
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Online-Publikation
Abstract:
Voicing Subjects traces the relation between public speech and notions of personal interiority in Kathmandu. It explores two seemingly distinct formations of voice that have emerged in the midst of the country's recent political and economic upheavals: a political voice associated with civic empowerment and collective agency, and an intimate voice associated with emotional proximity and authentic feeling. Both are produced and circulated through the media, especially through interactive technologies. The author argues that these two formations of voice are mutually constitutive and aligned w
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Author's Note on Transliteration and Pseudonyms; Introduction: Public Intimacy and Voicing Subjects in Kathmandu; 1. Intimate Callings and Voices of Reform: Law, Property, and Familial Love; 2. Seeing Face and Hearing Voice: Tactile Vision and Signs of Presence; 3. Making Waves: The Social and Political Context of FM Radio; 4. Mero Kathā, Mero Gīt: Affective Publics, Public Intimacy, and Voiced Writing; 5. Diasporic Voices: Sounds of the Diaspora in Kathmandu
Description / Table of Contents:
Epilogue: Royal Victims, Voicing SubjectsNotes; References; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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