Voices of freedom
Afghan politics in radio soap opera
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2402242 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Skuse (0000-0001-6437-0092, The University of Adelaide, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 159-181 |
| Publication date | 2005-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1466-1381 • E-ISSN: 1741-2714 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1466138105057547 |
| OpenAlex | W2056724772 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 35 |
This article examines the creative labour of a group of Afghan radio soap opera writers scripting a popular social realist BBC World Service radio drama for broadcast in Afghanistan. Analysis centres on struggles over the political representation of the Taliban within the soap opera between 1996-8, a period in which they dominated politically and militarily. A tension is revealed in analysis between the individual political beliefs of writers and the simultaneous need to 'realistically' represent Afghan social and political lives. Production accommodations resulted in the active portrayal of a nostalgic and traditional vision of Afghanistan. It is suggested that these representations ultimately denied a conservative Taliban presence within the soap opera, the portrayal of tradition kept alive for these writers an acceptable sense of a future that held more liberal possibilities than Taliban alternatives
Aesthetics · Afghan · Art · Drama · Literature · Media studies · Opera · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Sociology · Irish and British Studies · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
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| Citations per year | 0.26 |
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| Citation span | 2007 - 2018 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |