Season 02 - Episode 04: "Voice, Sound and Democracy"

In Episode 12 of Anthropological Airwaves, producer Nooshin Sadeq-Samimi interviews Laura Kunreuther. They cover a range of issues related to how voice and sound figure into the political process, focusing on Kunreuther's monograph Voicing Subjects: Public Intimacy and Mediation in Kathmandu and her recent article in Cultural Anthropology, "Sounds of Democracy: Performance, Protest, and Political Subjectivity."

Episode Transcript

Credits:

Producer and Interviewer: Nooshin Sadeq-Samimi 

Co-Editor and Host: Kyle Olson 

Co-Editor: Diego Arispe-Bazán

Thumnail Image: Cover of Voicing Subjects, Laura Kunreuther, UC Press (2014).

Featured Audio:

Byzantine Time Machine - "Glimpses of Kathmandu"

AP Archive - "Strike, police presence, violence, pro-democracy protest"

Nepathya - "Yo Jindagani"