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Author: Harri Englund
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Dimensions:
Width: 1.60cm
, Height: 0.20cm
, Length: 2.30cm
Weight: 0.510kg
ISBN: 9780226498768
ISBN 10: 022649876
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 08 February 2018
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Englund offers up an unusual ethnography of media that is deeply person-centered and filled with character study and life history. In doing so, he breaks new ground in media studies by delineating how radio can generate an intimate form of the public sphere. Bringing together an insightful reading of multivocality with a rethinking of the authority of elderhood--all but ignored of late in African studies--this book explores what happens when radio is configured through a relation of kinship, allowing for the democratic articulation of multiplicity under the frame of the people's grandfather. --Sasha Newell, author of The Modernity Bluff Gogo Breeze is a rich ethnography that gives a full picture of a host of issues confronting Zambians today. Written in an accessible style, full of many ethnographic anecdotes and theoretical insights, the book will be of interest to a range of scholars and students. --Laura Kunreuther, author of Voicing Subjects
""Englund offers up an unusual ethnography of media that is deeply person-centered and filled with character study and life history. In doing so, he breaks new ground in media studies by delineating how radio can generate an intimate form of the public sphere. Bringing together an insightful reading of multivocality with a rethinking of the authority of elderhood--all but ignored of late in African studies--this book explores what happens when radio is configured through a relation of kinship, allowing for the democratic articulation of multiplicity under the frame of the people's grandfather.""-- ""Sasha Newell, author of The Modernity Bluff"" ""Gogo Breeze is a rich ethnography that gives a full picture of a host of issues confronting Zambians today. Written in an accessible style, full of many ethnographic anecdotes and theoretical insights, the book will be of interest to a range of scholars and students.""-- ""Laura Kunreuther, author of Voicing Subjects""
Englund offers up an unusual ethnography of media that is deeply person-centered and filled with character study and life history. In doing so, he breaks new ground in media studies by delineating how radio can generate an intimate form of the public sphere. Bringing together an insightful reading of multivocality with a rethinking of the authority of elderhood--all but ignored of late in African studies--this book explores what happens when radio is configured through a relation of kinship, allowing for the democratic articulation of multiplicity under the frame of the people's grandfather. -- Sasha Newell, author of The Modernity Bluff Gogo Breeze is a rich ethnography that gives a full picture of a host of issues confronting Zambians today. Written in an accessible style, full of many ethnographic anecdotes and theoretical insights, the book will be of interest to a range of scholars and students. -- Laura Kunreuther, author of Voicing Subjects
Author Information
Harri Englund is professor of social anthropology at the University of Cambridge.
