Art, Politics and the Environment in Bangladesh - 50 Years on

'Art, Politics and the Environment in Bangladesh' features original research of a new generation of scholars of Bangladesh. The chapters collectively engage with many enduring topics of academic interest, such as violence, poverty, environment, development, democracy, religion and human rights from the vantage point of Bangladesh.

List of contents

Introduction, Lotte Hoek and Nusrat Sabena Chowdhury; 1. The Flow Forms of Elections on the Sand Bars of the Jamuna River, Naveeda Khan; 2. Aquacultural Disposessions: Shrimp, Land and Agrarian Politics in Coastal Bangladesh, Kasia Paprocki and Jason Cons; 3. 'They Went Directly into "Accident"': Accidents, Crowds and Intimate Politics in Phulbari, Bangladesh, Nusrat Sabena Chowdhury; 4. Feminism and Nationalism in Cold War East Pakistan, Elora Shehabuddin; 5. Repeat Viewing: Plagiarising Film and the Responsibilities of Creativity in South Asia, Lotte Hoek; 6. Transnational Discourses of Indigeneity, the Nation-State and the Figure of the 'Adivasi' rights activist in Bangladesh, Mahmudul Sumon; 7. A Looking-Glass War: Two Films on 1971, Four Decades Apart, Naeem Mohaiemen; 8. Transmission and Transformation in the 'Ever-Present' of Bangladesh: From the 'War Generation' to the 'Post-71 Generation', Syed Jamil Ahmed; 9. Markets, Fields, Leaves: Tobacco Trails in Northern Bengal, Sahana Ghosh; Epilogue Across Generations: A Conversation, Dipesh Chakrabarty and Nazmul Sultan; Index.

About the author

Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury is an anthropologist who writes on popular sovereignty and political communication focusing on Bangladesh.

Lotte Hoek is a media anthropologist who writes about the politics and aesthetics of the moving image in South Asia, particularly in Bangladesh. She is the author 'Cut-Pieces: Celluloid Obscenity and Popular Cinema in Bangladesh' (2014) and editor of the journal, 'BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies'.

Product details

• Authors: Nusrat S Hoek Chowdhury
• Assisted by: Nusrat S Chowdhury (Editor), Nusrat S. Chowdhury (Editor), Lotte Hoek (Editor), Hoek Lotte (Editor)
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781785273414
• ISBN: 978-1-78527-341-4
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Diversity and Plurality in South Asia; Diversity and Plurality in Sou
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Regional / International studies, Development Studies, Development economics and emerging economies, Advertising & Society