An account of anxiety and consumption in the Bengali affluent middle class
This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Social Science in Anthropology, 2019.
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10361-138102020-03-01T21:01:18Z An account of anxiety and consumption in the Bengali affluent middle class Saadat, Syed Abu Sinjan Sabur, Seuty Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Brac University Affluent middle class Anxiety Consumption Bangladesh Urban politics This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Social Science in Anthropology, 2019. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 58-60). In this research, I attempt to unpack the concept of anxiety surrounding consumption of the Bangladeshi ‘middle class.’ My hypothesis is that class identities of this group are indistinguishably linked with their consumption. By tracing the historical formation of the metropolitan ‘middle class’ in Bangladesh and reviewing relevant literature, this paper aims to revise the market situation that the individuals of this group are embedded in. The objective of this ethnography was to create an account of urban anxieties that arise out of the metropolitan middle class consumption and this was done through structured and semi-structured interviews from members of this group. Existing literature suggests strongly that the ‘middle class’ should be understood as a unique historical formation- born out of the specific colonial past of the nation- and that shortcomings exist in homogenizing this particular class category. With these ideas in mind, the central research questions are: How can we identify the Bangladeshi middle class? What types of consumption are definitive of this class group? What is this urban anxiety? What could it represent? These questions will be addressed in this paper to illustrate the relationship between urban consumption and anxiety. Syed Abu Sinjan Saadat BSS in Anthropology 2020-03-01T06:12:09Z 2020-03-01T06:12:09Z 2019 2019 Thesis ID 17217004 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/13810 en Brac University theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. 60 pages application/pdf Brac University |
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