TY - GEN N2 - 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. DO - 10.1007/978-981-16-4314-9 DO - doi AB - 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. T1 - Masks of authoritarianism :hegemony, power and public life in Bangladesh / DA - [2022] CY - Singapore : AU - Ruud, Arild Engelsen, AU - Hasan, Mubashar, CN - JQ633.5.A58 PB - Palgrave Macmillan, PP - Singapore : PY - [2022] ID - 1442461 KW - Authoritarianism KW - Autoritarisme SN - 9789811643149 SN - 9811643148 TI - Masks of authoritarianism :hegemony, power and public life in Bangladesh / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-981-16-4314-9 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-981-16-4314-9 ER -