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Voices of freedom - Afghan politics in radio soap opera
Authors
Jon Abbink
Tim Allen
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Jon Anderson
Andrew Skuse
Mohammad Atayee
Whitney Azoy
Georgina Born
Donald Brenneis
Elizabeth Colson
Veena Das
Anthony Davis
Esta De Fossard
DFID
Barry Dornfeld
Johannes Fabian
Richard Foster
Michel Foucault
John Gledhill
Katarina Graffman
Antonio Gramsci
Wendy James
Erika Knabe
David Lan
Edmund Leach
C. Lindholm
William Maley
Ruth Mandel
Peter Marris
Jesús Martín-Barbero
Mark Pedelty
Rasul Rais
Liz Rigbey
Rockefeller Foundation
Oliver Roy
Barnett Rubin
James Scott
M. Nazif Shahrani
Richard Tapper
UNAIDS/Penn State
Nico Vink
Publication date
1 January 2005
Publisher
'SAGE Publications'
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Abstract
© 2005 SAGE PublicationsThis 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
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