Model Citizens in Bangladesh
| Autor: | Mohammad Tareq Hasan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Social Analysis. 66:126-146 |
| ISSN: | 1558-5727 0155-977X |
| DOI: | 10.3167/sa.2022.660307 |
| Popis: | Recently dubbed the new ‘Asian Tiger’, Bangladesh developed a post-independence citizen-centered economic strategy that included generating non-farm jobs and constituting a new type of model or ideal citizen: the independent, prosperous, and entrepreneurial woman. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Dhaka, in this article I document the model citizen campaigns by analyzing female ready-made garment factory workers’ lives. I also outline the form that egalitarianism assumed in this context. I argue that through investigating the emergence of joggo nari—women who challenge gendered norms and hierarchies, aspire toward forms of gender equality, and represent new women of a new Bangladesh—central paradoxes of egalitarian dynamics, such as contradictory and multi-layered gendered relationships and expressions of personhood, desire, and freedom, may come into view. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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