Masks of authoritarianism : hegemony, power and public life in Bangladesh / Arild Engelsen Ruud, Mubashar Hasan, editors.
Ruud, Arild Engelsen, editor.; Hasan, Mubashar, editor.
2022
JQ633.5.A58
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Title
Masks of authoritarianism : hegemony, power and public life in Bangladesh / Arild Engelsen Ruud, Mubashar Hasan, editors.
ISBN
9789811643149 (electronic bk.)
9811643148 (electronic bk.)
9789811643132 hardcover
981164313X hardcover
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4314-9
Publication Details
Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-16-4314-9 doi
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JQ633.5.A58
Dewey Decimal Classification
320.53095492
Summary
How are lives affected by the increasingly authoritarian regime of Bangladesh that masks its despotic nature behind democratic rhetoric and economic growth? The chapters here investigate how professionals, officials, artists, opposition activists and ruling party men negotiate the ever-increasing power of an authoritarian regimes and how it affects their public engagement. This volume will interest scholars of democracy, hybrid regimes and authoritarianism. Arild Engelsen Ruud is professor of South Asia Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway. Among his recent publications are Mafia Raj: the Rule of Bossism in South Asia (Stanford UP 2018, co-author) and, as co-editor, South Asian Sovereignty: the Conundrum of Wordly Power (Routledge 2019) and Outrage: the Rise of Religious Offence in South Asia (UCL Press 2019). Mubashar Hasan PhD is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Humanitarian and Development Research Initiative, Western Sydney University, Australia. He is the author of Islam and Politics in Bangladesh: The Followers of Ummah (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), and the lead editor of the book Radicalization in South Asia: Context, Trajectories and Implications (Sage, 2020). Previously he was a post-doctoral fellow at Oslo University, Norway. He taught political science in North South University and Journalism in University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
References-Working Under the "Sword of Damocles": Experiences of Journalists in a Hybrid Regime-Introduction-Hybrid Regime and Information Control-Bangladeshi Media Under the Shadow of a Hybrid Regime-Living Under the Sword: Journalists Speak-Deteriorating Press Freedom-Self-Censorship, "Enforced Censorship", or "Strategic Silencing"?-Surveillance by State Institutions-"NO-NO" Topics-Local vs. International Press-Conclusion-References-Making Cinema Under Authoritarian Codes-Introduction-Institutions and Legal Frameworks-Censor Combat: Recent Cases.
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Chapter 1. Introduction
Part I. The media
Chapter 2. The everyday politics of rumours and information: local journalism and social media in an authoritarian party-state regime in Bangladesh
Chapter 3. Working Under the Sword of Damocles: Experiences of Journalists in a Hybrid Regime
Part II. Alternative voices three snapshots
Chapter 4. The Rebels and the Conformers: Competing Patterns in Bangladeshi Rap Music
Chapter 5. Life in a Hybrid Regime: Everyday struggles of gay men in Bangladesh
Chapter 6. Targeted by Militants and Abandoned by the State: The Case of Shuddhashar Publication House
Part III. The intellectuals
Chapter 7. Manufacturing Consent, Silencing Dissent: The Case of Academic Freedom in Bangladesh
Chapter 8. Making Cinema within Authoritarian Codes: The Case of Bangladesh
Part IV. The unengaged three snapshots
Chapter 9. Are mega development projects inherently undemocratic?: Field narratives from the projects sites
Chapter 10. Everyday life in a hybrid regime: The case of health sector in Bangladesh
Chapter 11. In the borderland: Everyday coping among Rohingya refugees
Part V. The Political Stratum
Chapter 12. The win-win game in politics: A study of the student wing of the ruling party in Bangladesh
Chapter 13. Life of Jamaat e Islami and Its Political Allies in a Hybrid Regime
Chapter 14. If I am arrested, who will I do politics for? Repression and resistance at the base of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party
Chapter 15. Afterword.

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