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dc.contributor.authorAhmed, Z.
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-24T11:52:15Z
dc.date.available2021-02-24T11:52:15Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/16272
dc.description.abstractBased on an ethnography of relationships between members of Parliament (MPs) and their constituents in Bangladesh, this article shows how social and political relationships are entangled and performed, and how MPs are viewed by others and how they see themselves. Despite the diversity of politicians and constituents, some aspects of these relationships cut across MPs’ age, gender, and political background. I argue that these messy and contradictory relationships require MPs to be shape‐shifters. When MPs transgress to collude with one group of constituents to marginalize others—or even to commit violence—the representative role breaks down. Such disruptions mean understandings of representation have to be reconceptualized. Knowing how MPs make choices between competing and conflicting interests among their constituencies could enrich debates about their role specifically and about democracy more generally.
dc.publisherJohn Wiley & Sons
dc.titleFrom Shape Shifting to Collusion in Violence: An Ethnography of Informal Relationships Between Bangladeshi Members of Parliament and Their Constituents
dc.typeArticle
dc.rights.holder© 2019 by the American Anthropological Association
dc.identifier.externalurihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/plar.12283
dc.identifier.agES/L005409/1
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/plar.12283


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