Co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies.
The recent student-led mass uprising which ousted the longstanding autocrat, Sheikh Hasina, from office ushered in a new era in Bangladesh politics. How did an uprising that began with a demand for students’ job quota reform become a mass movement to reclaim the people’s sovereignty? What united people of different religions, regions, castes, classes, and generations to confront authoritarian rule? And what political possibilities and precarities lie ahead for post-uprising Bangladesh? This talk examines how the uprising creatively broke prevailing binaries of secular-religious, nationalist-anti-nationalist, freedom fighter-Rajakar, etc. by fostering cultural and ideological coexistence, thus creating a space for collective resistance and new discourses that go beyond conventional party politics and ideological contestation.
Md Mizanur Rahman is a PhD candidate in Politics at UC Santa Cruz. His research focuses on liberalism and its critics, Islamic political thought, and religion and politics in South Asia. He is particularly interested in Bangladesh politics and has written on debates concerning Islam, modernity, and the politics of Islamic seminaries in Bangladesh.
Date | Time
October 10, 2024 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM [PST]
Free and open to the public
Venue | Location
Humanities Building 1, Room 202
University of California, Santa Cruz