Paradoxes of the Popular by Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury - 9781503609471

Paradoxes of the PopularCrowd Politics in Bangladesh\nAuthor(s): Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9781503609471, 978-1503609471\nSynopsis\nFew 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 despaira growing economy, and an uneven, yet robust, nationalist sentimentwhich, 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.