Television and the Afghan culture wars : brought to you by foreigners, warlords, and activists /

"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 clas...

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Библиографические подробности
Главный автор: Osman, Wazhmah, 1974- (Автор)
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Язык:английский
Опубликовано: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2020]
Серии:Geopolitics of information.
Online-ссылка:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2629474
Оглавление:
  • Legitimizing Modernity: Indigenous Modernities, Foreign Incursions, and Their Backlashes
  • Imperialism, Globalization, and Development: Overlaps and Disjunctures
  • Afghan Television Production: A Distinctive Political Economy
  • Producers and Production: The Development Gaze and the Imperial Gaze
  • Reaching Vulnerable and Dangerous Populations: Women and the Pashtuns
  • Reception and Audiences: The Demands and Desires of Afghan People
  • Conclusion: The Future of Afghan Media, the Future of Afghanistan.