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Paradoxes of the Popular

লেখক / Author: Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury

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Few places are as politically precarious as Bangladesh, even fewer as crowded. Its 57,000 or so square miles are some of the world's most inhabited. Often described as a definitive case of the bankruptcy of postcolonial governance, it is also one of the poorest among the most densely populated nations. In spite of an overriding anxiety of exhaustion, there are a few important caveats to the familiar feelings of despair?a growing economy, and an uneven, yet robust, nationalist sentiment?which, together, generate revealing paradoxes. In this book, Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury offers insight into what she calls "the paradoxes of the popular," or the constitutive contradictions of popular politics. The focus here is on mass protests, long considered the primary medium of meaningful change in this…

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Pages: 270

Language: en

ISBN-13: 9781503608863

ISBN-10: 1503608867