Browsing by Subject "Politics"

Critical discourse analysis of political talk shows of Bangladesh

Islam, Sayeda (BRAC University, 2017-04)

The present study aim at critically analyzing the underlying ideologies in the political Talk shows in Bangladesh. The study focuses on the content of the discourse of the talk shows to analyze how linguistic features are ...

Gender, class, and politics in Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls

Sarker, Sumaiya (Brac University, 2022-05)

Theatre has always been a platform for expressing what cannot be expressed through mere words coming out of one’s mouth. From the beginning of theatre, playwrights have tried to bring out issues concerning love, betrayal, ...

Gendered politics of inclusive development

Nazneen, Sohela; Mahmud, Simeen (BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), 2014-05)

Political settlement frameworks are gender blind. In this paper, we interrogate the nature of gendered political settlements through analyzing selected country cases studies of the gendered nature of political and policy-making ...

Local level politics in Bangladesh: Organization and process

Wohab, Md. Abdul; Akhter, Sanzida (BRAC University, 2004)

This paper focuses on local level politics and the organization of political parties to examine how the political leaders mobilize their supporters at the local level. The involvement of local people is also analyzed here. ...

Navigating ambivalence and exile: a multidimensional analysis of migration in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines

Prima, Karima Khatun (Brac University, 2024-01)

The intricate interplay of Ambivalence and Exile are central themes in Amitav Ghosh’s novel The Shadow Lines. Through a multidimensional analysis, it explores the multifaceted nature of migration in the narrative. This ...

Of the Mother and the Whore: a depiction of the contemporary socio-political events and their impacts on female identity in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake

Rahman, Farhin (Brac University, 2019-12)

This thesis aims to outline the contemporary global socio-political events (those of the twentieth and twenty-first century), with special focus on the rise of fundamentalist politics and technological advancements to ...

A postmodern analysis: tracing the elements of politics, war and trauma in graphic narratives in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Joe Sacco’s Palestine

Gomes, Susan Andrea (Brac University, 2019-08)

The paper aims to show how graphic novels can be included in the mainstream reading culture. Visual narratives not only glorify a culture or a country, but it also instruments to highlight the intricate and gruesome details ...