Voices of freedom: Afghan politics in radio soap opera

Ethnography

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 159-181

  Skuse, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Afghanistan; nostalgia; politics; radio; soap opera

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247661288     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1466138105057547     Document Type: Article

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