After July: Campus Politics, Moral Authority, and the Conditions of Islamist Ascendancy
After the July 2024 uprising, student union elections across Bangladesh’s public universities produced a striking outcome: the near-monopolistic victory of Islami Chhatra Shibir. Is this a sign of rising Islamo-fascism, or something else entirely? This long-form analysis examines Generation Z politics, material movements like road safety and quota reform, memory exhaustion around 1971 and Shahbag, organizational power, Islamic commerce, and the unresolved histories of violence—arguing that what we are witnessing is not ideological conversion, but structural collapse and organizational survival.