Overview
- Provides a nuanced theoretical understanding of cultural products and the culture industry in Bangladesh
- Interweaves both globally and locally applicable concepts, featuring perspectives and insights from the Global South
- Explores the subtle contesting nature of various stakes in defining, manifesting and appropriating the 'popular'
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This book is an anthology of essays that explore cultural products and their reception and readings in a given location. Taking the Bangladeshi scenario into consideration, this book engages with, and relates to, much wider conceptual and theoretical debates that are prevalent in the academic and polemic world. The concept of ‘popular’ is contested among cultural-political spheres and is manifested across genres and formats. Conventional modalities are often referred to as music, film, creative literature and paintings, with little doubt about its more assured place in the ‘elite’ space, and for not being an easy pick for the culture industry. With the advent of ‘new media’ and the internet, cyberspace provides entirely new meanings of the culture industry and cultural products where identities are endlessly in construction as well as in question. This volume explores cultures and cultural products that have gone through crucial phases during and after the colonial period, through modernity and capitalism, within the compulsory flow of cultural globalization, and it will be of interest to readers with a background in sociocultural anthropology, colonial and post-colonial studies, and the culture and history of Asia.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Knowledge
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Front Matter
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Cinescape
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Front Matter
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Otium
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Front Matter
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Afterword
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Manosh Chowdhury is Professor of Anthropology at Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh. His research interests include popular culture, social inequality, Marxism, nationalism, media studies, literature, social space, gender, and cinema.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Popular Culture and Political Lives
Book Subtitle: Experiences from Bangladesh
Authors: Manosh Chowdhury
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-99074-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-99073-1Published: 27 September 2025
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-99076-2Due: 11 October 2026
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-99074-8Published: 26 September 2025
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 161
Topics: Social Anthropology, Anthropology, Media and Communication, Asian Culture, Imperialism and Colonialism