CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Khandoker, Nasrin |
|---|---|
| Title | Sexism in "Online War": An Analysis of Online Discursive Battle in Bangladesh |
| Summary | This research is about the discursive battle between radical Bengali nationalists and the Islamist supporters of accused and convicted war criminals in Bangladesh where the gendered issues are used as weapons. In Bangladesh, the online discursive frontier emerged from 2005 as a continuing battle extending from the 1971 Liberation War when the punishment of war criminals and war rapists became one of the central issues of political and public discourse. An online community emerged with the ideological debate between the Bengali nationalist ‘pro-Liberation War’ and the supporters of the accused war criminals. These online discourses created the background of protest 2013 and at the time of the protest, the online community played a significant role. In this research as a past participant of Shahbag protest, I examined this online discourse and there gendered and masculine expression. To do that I problematized the idea of Bengali and/or Muslim women which is related to the identity contest. I examined that, to protest the misogynist propaganda of Islamist fundamentalists in Bangladesh, feminists and women’s organizations are aligning themselves with Bengali nationalism and thus cannot be critical about the gendered notions of nationalism. I therefore, tried to make a feminist scholarly attempt to be critical of the misogynist and gendered notion of both the Islamists and Bengali nationalists of Bangladesh to contribute not only a critical examination of masculine nationalist rhetoric, but will also to problematize that developmentalist feminist approach. I believe a meticulous feminist analysis of Bangladeshi nationalism is important within the feminist critical debates and the online sphere as a significant zone of discursive formation and power relations to analyze that national rhetoric. |
| Supervisor | Helms, Elissa |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/khandoker_nasrin.pdf |
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