TY - GEN T1 - Television and the Afghan culture wars : brought to you by foreigners, warlords, and activists T2 - Geopolitics of information. A1 - Osman, Wazhmah, 1974- LA - English PP - Urbana PB - University of Illinois Press YR - 2020 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1196821933 AB - "Portrayed in Western discourse as tribal and traditional, Afghans have in fact intensely debated women's rights, democracy, modernity, and Islam as part of their nation building in the post-9/11 era. Wazhmah Osman places television at the heart of these public and politically charged clashes while revealing how the medium also provides war-weary Afghans with a semblance of open discussion and healing. After four decades of gender and sectarian violence, she argues, the internationally funded media sector has the potential to bring about justice, national integration, and peace. Fieldwork from across Afghanistan allowed Osman to record the voices of many Afghan media producers and people. Afghans offer their own seldom-heard views on the country's cultural progress and belief systems, their understandings of themselves, and the role of international interventions. Osman analyzes the impact of transnational media and foreign funding while keeping the focus on local cultural contestations, productions, and social movements. As a result, she redirects the global dialogue about Afghanistan to Afghans and challenges top-down narratives of humanitarian development"-- OP - 272 CN - PN1992.3.A27 O86 2020 SN - 9780252052439 SN - 0252052439 SN - 9780252043550 SN - 0252043553 SN - 9780252085451 SN - 0252085450 KW - Television broadcasting : Social aspects : Afghanistan. KW - Television and politics : Afghanistan. KW - Television programs : Afghanistan : History : 21st century. KW - Afghanistan : Social conditions : 21st century : Press coverage. KW - Electronic books. KW - Télévision : Aspect social : Afghānistān. KW - Télévision et politique : Afghānistān. KW - Émissions télévisées : Afghānistān : Histoire : 21e siècle. KW - Livres numériques. KW - e-books. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : General. KW - Social history : Press coverage KW - Television and politics KW - Television broadcasting : Social aspects KW - Television programs KW - Afghanistan KW - 2000-2099 KW - History ER -