Bøger af Mubashar Hasan

This book is a collection of commentaries on Bangladesh's politics, culture and history. This collection is being published at a time when the society and politics of the country are divisive and far from being tolerant. Universities and many public intellectuals are not beyond the realm of such divisive politics. In fact many public intellectuals and scholars are part of expanding division in the society. As a result, we see media commentaries and public debates are manufacturing divisive narratives about Bangladesh. Against the backdrop of such politics of division, the space for exploring Bangladesh from a neutral perspective is under serious pressure. This book however is an effort to offer a non-partisan neutral narrative of Bangladeshi history, culture, politics and society through previously published short commentaries. Written over the period of five years, this book is a reflection of how Bangladesh has evolved as a country.Author Bio: Mubashar Hasan PhD is a Sydney based author and researcher with expertise on Bangladesh among others. He is the author of Islam and Politics in Bangladesh (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and Lead Editor of the book Radicalisation in South Asia: Context, Trajectories and Implications (Sage, 2019). He holds a PhD from Griffith University Australia and previously worked in Oslo University, Norway as a post-doctoral researcher. He is now attached with Western Sydney University.

This edited book investigates how life is affected by the increasingly authoritarian regime in Bangladesh.Earlier a flawed but real electoral democracy, over the last several years Bangladesh has been characterised as a 'hybrid regime' in The Economist's Democracy Index. Today it is a country in which law still rules and leaders are still chosen - but only on paper. The uniqueness of this book is not in defining regime type or investigating trajectories. It is in its efforts to study how these changes affect everyday life. All chapters are based on intimate knowledge of a field, on first-hand experience, and on interviews and ethnography. This book will interest political scientists and scholars of Bangladesh, the Islamic world and beyond, with findings of broad relevance to hybrid regimes.

By exploring the effects of ummah in Bangladeshi politics, this book shows how major political parties have mainstreamed political Islam in the country. The purely 'rational' domain of politics in Bangladesh is long lost, and political Islam sets the framework for politics in the country.