ISBN:
9780520958067
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (319 p.)
Ausgabe:
Issued also in print
Serie:
South Asia Across the Disciplines
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als
Schlagwort(e):
Communication Political aspects
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Mass media
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Kurzfassung:
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 with modern ideologies of democracy and neoliberal economic projects. This ethnography is set during an extraordinary period in Nepal's history that has seen a relatively peaceful 1990 revolution that re-established democracy, a Maoist civil war, and the massacre of the royal family. These dramatic changes have been accompanied by the proliferation of intimate and political discourse in the expanding public sphere, making the figure of voice ever more critical to an understanding of emerging subjectivity, structural change and cultural mediation
Anmerkung:
Frontmatter
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Contents
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Illustrations
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Acknowledgments
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Author's note on transliteration and pseudonyms
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Introduction: Public Intimacy and Voicing Subjects in Kathmandu
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1. Intimate Callings and Voices of Reform: Law, Property, and Familial Love
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2. Seeing Face and Hearing Voice: Tactile Vision and Signs of Presence
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3. Making Waves: Th e Social and Political Context of FM Radio
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4. Mero Kathā, Mero Gīt: Aff ective Publics, Public Intimacy, and Voiced Writing
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5. Diasporic Voices: Sounds of the Diaspora in Kathmandu
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Epilogue: Royal Victims, Voicing Subjects
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Notes
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References
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Index
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Issued also in print
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In English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520958067
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