Voicing Subjects: Public Intimacy and Mediation in Kathmandu

by Laura Kunreuther

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520270703
• ISBN13: 9780520270701
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"