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the Prism of the Local, edited by Daniel Miller (London and New York:
Routledge, 1995); Purnima Mankekar, Screening Culture, Viewing Politics:
An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India
(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999).
42.bu-Lughod, “The Objects of Soap Opera: Egyptian Television and the A
Cultural Politics of Modernity,” 191.
43.s emphasis on the form of presentation echoes Mankekar’s work on Thi
Indian television and the interpretative position of women who simulta-
neously identify with characters (even though such identification requires
an emotion, “baav,” that everyone can claim to possess) and critique the
programs. Mankekar further indicates that “Neither they nor I saw a
counteraction between these two divergent modes of viewing.” Mankekar,
Screening Culture, 26.
44.ee Peter Dahlgren, “Introduction,” in S Communication and Citizenship:
Journalism and the Public Sphere in the New Media Age, edited by Peter
Dahlgren and Colin Parks (London and New York: Routledge, 1991),
18–19; and Bernard Miège, “L’espace public: Au-delà de la sphère politique,”
Hermès 17–18 (1995): 49–61.
45.ee, for example, Jane M. Shattuc, “The Oprahfication of America: Talk S
Shows and the Public Sphere,” in Television, History, and American Culture:
Feminist Critical Essays, edited by Mary Beth Haralovich and Lauren
Rabinovitz (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999), 168–180.



  1. Morley, Home Territories, 117.

  2. Morley, Home Territories, 10.
    48.oreen Massey, “Double Articulation: A Place in the World,” in D
    Displacements. Cultural Identities in Question, edited by Angelika Bammer
    (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994), 117. See also Akhil Gupta
    and James Ferguson, “Culture, Power, Place: Ethnography at the End of an
    Era,” in Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology, edited
    by Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson (Durham, NC: Duke University Press,
    1997); and Liisa Malkki, “National Geographic: The Rooting of Peoples and
    the Territorialization of National Identity Among Scholars and Refugees,”
    Cultural Anthropology 7, no. 1 (1992): 24–44.
    49.ohamed Benrabah, M Langue et pouvoir en Algérie: histoire d’un trauma-
    tisme linguistique (Paris: Séguier, 1999), 101.

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