Why exposure no longer dismantles power.
This essay introduces the Post-Ideological Neoliberal Power Framework (PINPF v1.0), a critical lens for understanding how contemporary power survives scandal, redistributes blame, and endures beyond ideology, morality, and accountability.
Gendered Erasure, Moral Governance, and the Post-July Political Order in Bangladesh An analysis of how women generate legitimacy during uprisings but are sidelined during political settlement through moral governance, symbolism, and digital discipline. Introduction: July and the production of legitimacy The July 2024 uprising in Bangladesh was unimaginable without women. They were present in the…
Bangladesh keeps returning to the language of truth and reconciliation because grief does not expire.
When violence is deferred rather than resolved, grief accumulates—reshaping trust, silencing speech, fragmenting moral community, and narrowing the future.
This essay traces why Bangladesh has never operationalized a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and how the cost of that absence is paid not only in politics, but in ordinary life.
After July 2024, Bangladesh did not enter stability or revolution—but an era of permanent demand. This essay explains why protests persist without transformation.
How subalternity, social media, and religion intersect in Bangladesh, producing Islamophobia, Islamo-fascism, and new forms of authoritarian power.
How misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation shape elections not only by spreading falsehoods, but by governing fear, silence, and moral belonging in digital political life.
“An anthropological reading of public assemblies in post–July 2024 Bangladesh, examining how presence, legitimacy, and institutional fragility interact.”