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Bangladesh: Social Media Outcries Against the Awami Fascism
This is an edited collection of email comments, FB statuses, WhatsApp texts, and YouTube Video/Talk Show links, with reference to online articles and editorials mostly in the UK-based popular and patriotic outlet -- www.amardesh.co.uk -- providing a dissident, yet an authentic and authoritative narrative of the political scenario of today’s Bangladesh under the gag order of the pro-Indian Hasina-led Awami fascism for about fourteen years now. All contents are critical of the Indianized fascist Awami regime, which has banished free press since 2009. All forms of mass media, print or electronic, are in complete control of the fascist lackeys and loyalists, who, in their ludicrous and patheti...
Localizing the Internet
Internet activism is playing a crucial role in the democratic reform happening across many parts of Southeast Asia. Focusing on Subang Jaya, a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, this study offers an in-depth examination of the workings of the Internet at the local level. In fact, Subang Jaya is regarded as Malaysia’s electronic governance laboratory. The author explores its field of residential affairs, a digitally mediated social field in which residents, civil servants, politicians, online journalists and other social agents struggle over how the locality is to be governed at the dawn of the ‘Information Era’. Drawing on the field theories of both Pierre Bourdieu and the Manchester School of political anthropology, this study challenges the unquestioned predominance of ‘network’ and ‘community’ as the two key sociation concepts in contemporary Internet studies. The analysis extends field theory in four new directions, namely the complex articulations between personal networking and social fields, the uneven diffusion and circulation of new field technologies and contents, intra- and inter-field political crises, and the emergence of new forms of residential sociality.
Political Violence in South and Southeast Asia
This volume explores the sources and manifestations of political violence in South and Southeast Asia and the myriad roles that it plays in everyday life and as part of historical narrative. It considers and critiques the manner in which political violence is understood and constructed, and the common assumptions that prevail regarding the causes, victims, and perpetrators of this violence. By focusing on the social and political context of these regions, the book presents a critical understanding of the nature of political violence and provides an alternative narrative to that found in mainstream analysis of terrorism. "Political Violence in South and Southeast Asia" brings together politic...
Governmentality and Counter-Hegemony in Bangladesh
Using Michel Foucault's idea of governmentality, this book reinterprets various cases of revolt and popular uprisings in Bangladesh. It attempts to synthesize the theories of Foucault's governmentality and Antonio Gramsci's notions of hegemony and counter-hegemony.
Henry
Henry has not had it easy, to say the least. He didn't go to college, he works at a McDonald's, and he's not exactly a supermodel. However, there is one person in his life that at least makes it somewhat bearable, and that's his coworker and crush, Kendra. However, even that doesn't last as, after he finally takes the plunge and asks her out, she reveals that she already has a boyfriend. After this, Henry starts hearing strange and increasingly aggressive knocks at his door at night. Little does Henry know that this will take him down a road he never thought he could take. And, the darkest corners of his fragile psyche will finally be brought to light.
Democratization Through the Looking-glass
This book argues that our perspectives on democratization reflect the intellectual origins of the inquiry. A range of disciplines from anthropology to economics, sociology and legal scholarship, as well as different area studies, offer a rich combination of analytical frameworks, distinctive insights and leading points of concern.
Freedom in the World 2013
Freedom in the World, the Freedom House flagship survey whose findings have been published annually since 1972, is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties. The survey ratings and narrative reports on 194 countries and 14 territories are used by policymakers, the media, international corporations, civic activists, and human rights defenders to monitor trends in democracy and track improvements and setbacks in freedom worldwide. The Freedom in the World political rights and civil liberties ratings are determined through a multi-layered process of research and evaluation by a team of regional analysts and eminent scholars. The analysts used a b...
Reconciliation
Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the chairperson of the Pakistan People's Party, was seen as vital to that country's future. In exile for years, in late 2007 she felt the time had come to actively re-engage and to return to the country she loved. Part of that process was a clear-eyed assessment of where Pakistan was, and of the nature of its relationship with the West, with Islam, and with extremism. In this important new book, completed just days before her assassination, Ms Bhutto demonstrats that extremism is not inherent to Islam, but that various factors, including some policies of the West, have empowered Islamic fundamentalists and are responsible for the current battle for the h...
The Terrorist Prince
Murtaza Bhutto, 1954-1996, political leader from Pakistan.
Islam and Politics
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