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Sacrifices of the individual body for collective bodies: A study on safe road movements in Bangladesh

2019
Body can be the means of expressing cultural and political edifice. Road accidents are prevalent incidents to a Bangladeshi citizen, mostly everywhere in the world. Almost every day, people encounter such news. In the past few years, some protests are demanding a safe road for all, particularly in Bangladesh. The rage of losing someone close fosters protests, but not every death generates social movements. This research tries to explore how protests generate, why not every death is causing protests, and how politicization of the protest is producing a centered body as a weapon. Findings suggest that sovereignty and governmentality in biopolitical lens play essential roles to understand such events, where the division sheds light on both biopolitics and necropolitics. Direct observation and personal experiences of public movements in Bangladesh were used to conduct this research. The medical anthropological approach brings out a unique perspective of crowd movements of Bangladesh focusing body as a weapon where sacrifice of individual body (death) elevates collective bodies (as protests)....Read more
Title: Sacrifices of the individual body for collective bodies: A study on safe road movements in Bangladesh Author: Ibtesum Afrin 1 Key Words: [Body, Protest/ Movements, Biopolitics, Necropolitics, Medical Anthropology] Theme: Anthropology Presentation Preference: Oral Presentation Abstract: Body can be the means of expressing cultural and political edifice. Road accidents are prevalent incidents to a Bangladeshi citizen, mostly everywhere in the world. Almost every day, people encounter such news. In the past few years, some protests are demanding a safe road for all, particularly in Bangladesh. The rage of losing someone close fosters protests, but not every death generates social movements. This research tries to explore how protests generate, why not every death is causing protests, and how politicization of the protest is producing a centered body as a weapon. Findings suggest that sovereignty and governmentality in biopolitical lens play essential roles to understand such events, where the division sheds light on both biopolitics and necropolitics. Direct observation and personal experiences of public movements in Bangladesh were used to conduct this research. The medical anthropological approach brings out a unique perspective of crowd movements of Bangladesh focusing body as a weapon where sacrifice of individual body (death) elevates collective bodies (as protests). 1 Department of Social Science and Humanies, Independent University Bangladesh (IUB), Bangladesh.
Title: Sacrifices of the individual body for collective bodies: A study on safe road movements in Bangladesh Author: Ibtesum Afrin Department of Social Science and Humanities, Independent University Bangladesh (IUB), Bangladesh. Key Words: [Body, Protest/ Movements, Biopolitics, Necropolitics, Medical Anthropology] Theme: Anthropology Presentation Preference: Oral Presentation Abstract: Body can be the means of expressing cultural and political edifice. Road accidents are prevalent incidents to a Bangladeshi citizen, mostly everywhere in the world. Almost every day, people encounter such news. In the past few years, some protests are demanding a safe road for all, particularly in Bangladesh. The rage of losing someone close fosters protests, but not every death generates social movements. This research tries to explore how protests generate, why not every death is causing protests, and how politicization of the protest is producing a centered body as a weapon. Findings suggest that sovereignty and governmentality in biopolitical lens play essential roles to understand such events, where the division sheds light on both biopolitics and necropolitics. Direct observation and personal experiences of public movements in Bangladesh were used to conduct this research. The medical anthropological approach brings out a unique perspective of crowd movements of Bangladesh focusing body as a weapon where sacrifice of individual body (death) elevates collective bodies (as protests).
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