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Freedom Unfinished:

Fundamentalism and Popular Resistance in Bangladesh Today
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Zed Books, 2001 - Social Science - 243 pages
This book takes its readers on a voyage of discovery. Here is modern Bangladesh: the life of its villages, its farms and fields, its city slums and elites, its waterways, its cultural heritage and the diversity of Bengali tradition all threatened by the emergence of a less tolerant version of Islam. Day labourers and rickshaw drivers, maidservants and prostitutes, child labourers and garment workers, landlords and politicians, criminals and students, all engage us in their lives. We range through the watery landscapes of Barisal to the plains of North Bengal and the hills of Chittagong. We visit the strongholds of fundamentalism. And we also meet women fighting for education, as well as idealists and freedom fighters. The author shows how political struggle has now turned into a desperate battle for the spirit of Bengal, which has become a battleground between the liberal humanism of a rooted Bengali culture and the disciplined austerities of Islam. The tension between the contending forces gives this book a powerful resonance that goes far beyond the specifics of Bangladesh to wherever there is conflict between traditional cultures and the forces of globalism.
  

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I read this book so I could learn more about social movements in Bangladesh, since I plan on being here long term and hey, I'm interested in resistance and a just society. I did fill in parts of the ... Read full review

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Contents

South
12
SouthWest
64
NorthWest
138
South East
189
Two Festivals
232
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About the author (2001)

Former teacher, social worker and lecturer, Jeremy Seabrook has worked as a writer and journalist for 25 years, both in the UK and India. He has written plays and features for the theatre, TV and radio. He has also written widely on development issues, especially migration and urbanization in the South. He has worked closely with a number of non-government organizations in South and South East Asia, including the Consumers' Association of Penang, Arban and Proshika in Bangladesh. He currently contributes to New Internationalist, Race and Class, The Ecologist, and he writes regularly for Third World Network in Malaysia. His recent books include: Freedom Unfinished: Fundamentalism and Popular Resistance in Bangladesh Today (Zed Books)The Myth of the Market (Green Books) Travels in the Skin Trade (Pluto Press) Notes from Another India (Pluto Press)Victims of Development (Verso) In the Cities of the South (Verso)Colonies of the Heart (a novel) (GMP).

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TitleFreedom Unfinished: Fundamentalism and Popular Resistance in Bangladesh Today
AuthorJeremy Seabrook
Editionillustrated, revised
PublisherZed Books, 2001
ISBN1856499081, 9781856499088
Length243 pages
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