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Voicing Subjects: Public Intimacy and Mediation in Kathmandu
Laura Kunreuther
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Description for Voicing Subjects: Public Intimacy and Mediation in Kathmandu
Paperback. Traces the relation between public speech and notions of personal interiority in Kathmandu. This book explores two seemingly distinct formations of voice that have emerged in the midst of the country's recent political and economic upheavals. Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 328 pages, 15 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1FKN; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Nepal's recent history is extraordinary: within a short span of time, the country endured a relatively peaceful 1990 revolution that reestablished democracy, a Maoist civil war, and the massacre of its royal family. As these dramatic changes were taking place, Nepalese society experienced an upsurge in both political and intimate discourse, and the two became intertwined as they developed. Voicing Subjects is an ethnography that explores that phenomenon, tracing the relationship between public speech and notions of personal interiority in Kathmandu by examining the two formations of voice that emerged: a political voice, associated with civic empowerment and collective agency, ... Read more
Nepal's recent history is extraordinary: within a short span of time, the country endured a relatively peaceful 1990 revolution that reestablished democracy, a Maoist civil war, and the massacre of its royal family. As these dramatic changes were taking place, Nepalese society experienced an upsurge in both political and intimate discourse, and the two became intertwined as they developed. Voicing Subjects is an ethnography that explores that phenomenon, tracing the relationship between public speech and notions of personal interiority in Kathmandu by examining the two formations of voice that emerged: a political voice, associated with civic empowerment and collective agency, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
Series
South Asia Across the Disciplines
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520270701
SKU
V9780520270701
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About Laura Kunreuther
Laura Kunreuther is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Bard College.
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