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Voicing subjects : public intimacy and mediation in Kathmandu / / Laura Kunreuther



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Autore: Kunreuther Laura <1969-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Voicing subjects : public intimacy and mediation in Kathmandu / / Laura Kunreuther Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2014]
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (323 p.)
Disciplina: 302.2095496
Soggetto topico: Mass media - Nepal - Kathmandu
Communication - Political aspects - Nepal - Kathmandu
Soggetto non controllato: 1990 revolution
asia scholars
asian studies
civic empowerment
collective agency
cultural mediation
democracy
economic change
emotional experiences
ethnographers
ethnography
historians
interactive technologies
interiority
intimate voice
kathmandu
maoist civil war
media studies
mediation
modern history
modern ideologies
neoliberalism
nepal
personal life
political history
political turmoil
political voice
public intimacy
public speech
south asia
Classificazione: LB 39390
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Voicing subjects  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-95806-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910823026203321
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Serie: South Asia across the disciplines.