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. Bangladesh�...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Alam, S. M. Shamsul, 1956- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Subjects:	Bangladesh > Politics and government > 1971- Power (Social sciences) > Bangladesh. Hegemony > Bangladesh. Revolutions > Bangladesh > History. POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General. Hegemony. Politics and government. Power (Social sciences) Revolutions. Bangladesh. Since 1971 History.

Table of Contents:

Preface and acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Gorob O Asha: Language as Counter-Governmentality
3. Conscious Spontaneity: The Anti-Authoritarian Revolt of 1968-69
4. Nationalism as (Re) Governmentalization
5. Military Authoritarian Governmentality and Its Displacement
6. Islamic Governmentality? The Taslima Nasrin Case
7. Ethnicization and (Counter) Governmentality in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
8. On Rape and Revolt
9. Global (Counter) Governmentality
10. Coda: Governance without Governmentality?
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author.