Breaking News: The Latest in Bangladesh Politics
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Nusrat Chowdhury
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Amherst College
Kellogg Institute Visiting Fellow
Susan Ostermann
Assistant Professor of Global Affairs, Keough School of Global Affairs
Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellow
Following years of increasingly authoritarian rule and recent massive protests, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was forced to resign and flee in August. Three days later, Nobel Peace Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus was sworn in as the head of the country’s interim government. Since then, his administration has been attempting to restore stability by initiating various reforms, amid calls for elections for a new parliament. In this conversation with Kellogg Visiting Fellow Nusrat Chowdhury and Faculty Fellow Susan Ostermann, learn more about the current situation and what might be next for a country trying to restore democracy against a backdrop of grave economic conditions, political divisiveness, and social unrest.
Cosponsored with the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies
Nusrat Chowdhury
Political anthropologist Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury is associate professor of anthropology at Amherst College. Her research and writing focus on the affective and aesthetic dimensions of postcolonial democracies, especially in the context of popular sovereignty and political communication. Her first book, Paradoxes of the Popular: Crowd Politics in Bangladesh (2019), is an ethnography of the crowd...