Introduction: Ethnographic perspectives on the state in Bangladesh

Schulz, Mascha; Kuttig, Julian

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“…Such politics are characterised by a series of confusing actions, offering hope and protecting lives but simultaneously denying them (Chapter 3); promising advantages while showing reluctance in fulfilling them (Chapter 4); soliciting cooperation while at the same time criminalising existence (Chapter 5); demanding loyalty while offering nothing in return (Chapter 6). These practices exhibit that the 'state itself is not a fixed object' (Asad 2004, 279; see also Hussain 2013;Schulz and Kuttig 2020) but rather is best understood as a series of procedures that 'oscillate between the rational mode and the magical mode of being'; between legibility and illegibility (Das 2004, 225). Such whimsicality rests at the heart of biopolitics.…”

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Land, Life, and Emotional Landscapes at the Margins of Bangladesh

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2022

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Asia is often viewed through a fog of superlatives: the most populous countries, lowest fertility rates, fastest growing economies, greatest number of billionaires, most avid consumers, and greatest threat to the world's environment. This recounting of superlatives obscures Asia's sheer diversity, uneven experience, and mixed inheritance. Amsterdam University Press's Transforming Asia series publishes books that explore, describe, interpret, understand and, where appropriate, problematize and critique contemporary processes of transformation and their outcomes. The core aim of the series is to finesse 'Asia', both as a geographical category and to ask what Asia's 'rise' means globally and regionally, from conceptual models to policy lessons.

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