| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 303 pages .) |
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South Asia across the disciplines |
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South Asia across the disciplines.
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| Contents |
List of illustrations -- Introduction: public intimacy and voicing subjects in Kathmandu -- Intimate callings and voices of reform : law, property, and familial love -- Seeing face/hearing voice : tactile vision and signs of presence -- Making waves : social and political context of FM radio -- Mero kath, mero gt : affective publics, public intimacy, and voiced writing -- Diasporic voices : sounds of the diaspora in Kathmandu -- Epilogue: royal victims, voicing subjects -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
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 al |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Mass media -- Nepal -- Kathmandu
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Communication -- Political aspects -- Nepal -- Kathmandu
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Communication -- Political aspects
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Mass media
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Nepal -- Kathmandu
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Kathmandu.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520958067 |
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0520958063 |
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