Paradoxes of the Popular: Crowd Politics in Bangladesh PDF
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PARADOXES OF THE POPU LAR SOUTH ASIA IN MOTION EDITOR Thomas Blom Hansen EDITORIAL BOARD Sanjib Baruah Anne Blackburn Satish Deshpande Faisal Devji Christophe Jaffrelot Naveeda Khan Stacey Leigh Pigg Mrinalini Sinha Ravi Vasudevan NUSRAT SABINA CHOWDHURY PA RA D OX ES O F T H E P O P UL A R Crowd Politics in Bangladesh STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS STANFORD, CALIFORNIA Stanford University Press Stanford, California © 2019 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Ju nior University. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. Printed in the United States of Amer i ca on acid- free, archival- quality paper Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Chowdhury, Nusrat Sabina, author. Title: Paradoxes of the popular : crowd politics in Bangladesh / Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury. Description: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2019. | Series: South Asia in motion | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018057612 (print) | LCCN 2018059912 (ebook) | ISBN 9781503608863 (cloth ; alk. paper) | ISBN 9781503609471 (pbk. ; alk. paper) | ISBN 9781503609488 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Protest movements—Bangladesh. | Crowds—Political aspects— Bangladesh. | Political culture—Bangladesh. | Bangladesh—Politics and government. Classification: LCC HN690.6.A8 (ebook) | LCC HN690.6.A8 C4685 2019 (print) | DDC 303.6095492—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018057612 Cover design: Rob Ehle Cover photo: Tongi Railway Station, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Md. Akhlas Uddin | Getty Images. Typeset by Westchester Publishing Ser vices in 10.75/15 Adobe Caslon For my crowd in Dhaka, Phulbari, and Chicago This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Notes on Translation and Transliteration ix Acknowl edgments xi Introduction 1 1 Picture- Thinking 31 2 Seeing Like a Crowd 63 3 Accidental Politics 95 4 Crowds and Collaborators 127 5 The Body of the Crowd 161 Conclusion 199 Notes 209 Works Cited 219 Index 237 This page intentionally left blank NOTES ON TRANSLATION AND TRANSLITERATION Throughout the book, I have followed the standard spelling for Bangla words as they are written in Bangladesh. I have avoided the International Phonetic Alphabet for the ease in reading for both Bengali and non- Bengali readers. All translations from Bangla, u nless other wise noted, are mine.
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