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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.
List of contents
Section 1: On the Question of Identity Chapter 1:
Bangalee-Musalman: Configuration and Contestation of Identities Chapter 2: The World of and around Syed Waliullah's
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 Bangladesh's Futures Chapter 10: Identity War, Women's 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
About the author
Mirza Taslima Sultana is working in the Department of Anthropology, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh.
Parsa Sanjana Sajid is a researcher, writer, 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.
