Masks of Authoritarianism: Hegemony, Power and Public Life in Bangladesh 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9789811643132,9789811643149,981164313X,9811643148

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• ISBN-10: 9811643148
• ISBN-13: 9789811643149
• Author: Arild Engelsen Ruud, Mubashar Hasan

​This edited book investigates how life is affected by the increasingly authoritarian regime in Bangladesh.Earlier a flawed but real electoral democracy, over the last several years Bangladesh has been characterised as a ‘hybrid regime’ in The Economist’s Democracy Index. Today it is a country in which law still rules and leaders are still chosen – but only on paper. The uniqueness of this book is not in defining regime type or investigating trajectories. It is in its efforts to study how these changes affect everyday life. All chapters are based on intimate knowledge of a field, on first-hand experience, and on interviews and ethnography. This book will interest political scientists and scholars of Bangladesh, the Islamic world and beyond, with findings of broad relevance to hybrid regimes.

Table contents:

1. Introduction
2. The Media
3. The Everyday Politics of Rumours and Information: Bangladesh’s Hybrid Media System and Party-State Corporatism
4. Working Under the “Sword of Damocles”: Experiences of Journalists in a Hybrid Regime
5. Making Cinema Under Authoritarian Codes
6. Snapshots of Insiders
7. The Win–win Game in Politics? A Study on Student Body of the Ruling Party in Bangladesh
8. The Crocodiles Are Closing in: Everyday Life for a Local BNP Leader
9. Survival Strategies of Jamaat as a Religion-Based Political Opponent in Bangladesh
10. The Neutral Apparatus
11. Rewarding Conformity, Silencing Dissent: The Case of Academic Freedom
12. Everyday Life in a Hybrid Regime: The Case of Health Sector in Bangladesh with a Focus on COVID-19 Pandemic
13. Durniti or Durbolata: Self-Policing, Social Relations and Regulative Weakness in the Everyday Lives of Bangladeshi Government Officials
14. Snapshot of Society’s Outsiders
15. Conformers and Rebels: Competing Patterns Among Bangladeshi Rap Musicians
16. Security Conundrums of Queer Lives in Bangladesh: The Bulbul That Has Always Been A Crow
17. Targeted by Militants and Abandoned by the State: The Case of Shuddhashar Publication House
18. Vulnernability
19. Are Mega Projects Inherently Undemocratic? Field Narratives from Mega Projects Sites in Bangladesh
20. “We Are Alive, but Have No Life”: Rohingya Refugees, Deprived of the Prospects for a Future
21. Democracy in Scare Quotes: The Granularity of Control in the Hybrid State of Bangladesh
22. Correction to: The Win–win Game in Politics? A Study on Student Body of the Ruling Party in Bangladesh

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