| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 303 pages .) |
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text file |
| Series |
South Asia across the disciplines
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South Asia across the disciplines.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mass media -- Nepal -- Kathmandu.
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Mass media. |
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Nepal -- Kathmandu. |
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Communication -- Political aspects -- Nepal -- Kathmandu.
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Communication -- Political aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kunreuther, Laura, 1969- Voicing subjects. 9780520270688 0520270681 (DLC) 2013040220 (OCoLC)861677156 |
| ISBN |
9780520958067 (electronic book) |
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0520958063 (electronic book) |
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9780520270688 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520270681 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520270701 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0520270703 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
40023576882 |
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