This book is an authoritative interdisciplinary resource on Bangladesh and the region’s history, politics, and culture. It provides fine grained ethnographic, literary, and historical analyses.
This book is an authoritative interdisciplinary resource on Bangladesh and the region’s history, politics, and culture. It provides fine grained ethnographic, literary, and historical analyses. The volume interrogates key liberal categories – law, religion, nationalism, women’s rights – through which knowledge of the national space of Bangladesh has been conventionally produced. The implicit call to question and reconfigure dominant epistemologies and knowledge practices that effectively reinscribe bourgeois, capitalist hegemony is a hallmark of current theorizing from the Global South, one that this volume fully embraces.
Rich in cross-disciplinary inquiries from ethnographic case studies to theoretical analyses, this book will be an essential resource for scholars and researchers of Bangladesh studies, South Asian studies, social anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, gender studies, and political science.
Section 1: On the Question of Identity
Chapter 1: Bangalee-Musalman:
Configuration and Contestation of Identities
Chapter 2: The World of and
around Syed Waliullahs Lal Salu
Chapter 3: False Proximities Section 2:
Negotiating Subjects and Social Contracts
Chapter 4: Chukti: The Multiple
Lives of a Contract in the Chilmari Chars
Chapter 5: Engaging the Obhibhabok
State: Petitions and Protests in the Chimbuk Pahar Resort Project Section 3:
Reconfiguring Space and Sociality
Chapter 6: Creating the Incomprehensible
Us: Architecture, Islam, Modernity, and Nation
Chapter 7: Shattered Sacred,
Wounded Lives: Destruction of Bihars in Ramu, Bangladesh
Chapter 8: Waiting
Room: Worlds within Worlds Section 4: Continuous Movements, Discontinuous
Struggles
Chapter 9: Climate, Energy, and the Paradox of Bangladeshs Futures
Chapter 10: Identity War, Womens Appearance and the Shahbag Movement
Chapter
11: All the fingers are not equal: Sexual Violence in the Making of
Masculinity among the Workers of Buses around Dhaka
Mirza Taslima Sultana is working in the Department of Anthropology, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh.
Parsa Sanjana Sajid is a researcher, writer, and cultural practitioner working at the intersection of digital, visual, and literary cultures; social spaces and movements; migration practices; and gender justice.
Sayeed Ferdous has taught anthropology at Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, since 1995.
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