Drafts by Md. Nizam U L Hossain
Eating meat is a regular phenomenon in Bangladesh starting from household cooking to any kind of ... more Eating meat is a regular phenomenon in Bangladesh starting from household cooking to any kind of festival. Approximately everyone eats meat for which the restaurant culture is flourishing all around the country. Considering food habit as a cultural production, this paper suggests that consuming meat has become a hierarchy among the youngsters and this very culture is a production of mediatized culture of gigantic chain restaurants. While being a culture itself, vegetarianism is deemed as an other half of meat eating culture. In Bangladesh, the vegetarians often find hardly any options available in the restaurants. Big chain restaurants offer most items with meat which can be troublesome in many occasions for those who don't consume meat. This paper explores the scenario in chain restaurants in Bangladesh and addresses the problems of the vegetarian customers. This very act can be the power play of capitals since meat industry earns a lion's share here. The West induced epistemology of food culture recognizes the part where monetary gains is the bigger deal which is conducted by the meat consumers. The non-meat consumers are deemed as threats because of the clash between vegetarians and non-vegetarians. This paper adapts the vegetarian culture which lies in the periphery in Bangladeshi context and attempts to say that the involvement of capitals in the food culture creates the hierarchy among vegetarians and non-vegetarians. Transcending from the powerful culture, gastronomic habits have become a means to make money, control and colonize a culture through the epistemic contribution. Southeast Asian Countries have a long history with Western Colonization and now in the postcolonial era, there has been this very attempt to delink from the long established Western epistemology and aesthetics to establish a new cultural production to retrieve the former glory of this sub-continent. But the irony lies in the fact that while one is trying to delink from many existing western epistemology, Gastronomic epistemology is silently taking over as a form of neocolonization. In the present paper, our focus is on the Bangladeshi context where food culture has become a crucial mechanism to distinguish social groups and construct hierarchy. Meat consumption is a regular phenomenon in Bangladesh. With the rise of restaurant culture in Bangladesh, meat based items are deemed as the most popular ones while there are barely any vegetarian items to be found in the menus. It is because vegetarianism is deemed as the minority food culture in Bangladesh. Though the meat consuming community does not uphold any hostility towards vegetarians, often the vegetarians have to accommodate themselves according to the regulated food culture. Transcending from the powerful culture, gastronomic habits have become a means to make money, control and colonize a culture through the epistemic contribution. This paper explores the prominent food culture of meat consummation and vegetarian culture and explores the capitalistic hegemony of food corporations. Food corporations (i.e. Fast
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The article addresses how the migrant Bangladeshi workers, in their bid to be a part of the Middl... more The article addresses how the migrant Bangladeshi workers, in their bid to be a part of the Middle Eastern Muslim Cosmopolis, make sense of the negotiation between the concepts of nation-state and umma. The article also examines whether these migrants’ endorsement of a ‘foreign’ Muslim culture in Bangladesh has created a community of ‘other’ Muslims perceived to be less Muslim because of being less exposed to the Middle East culture. In a rapidly changing context in terms of cultural identification, it is pertinent to investigate if the power, prestige, and privilege that these Bangladeshi migrants enjoy in Bangladesh rely solely on their becoming ‘better’ Muslims or rather chiefly stem from their monetary gain. The article explores whether a good financial status becomes the driving force in creating the Muslim ‘other,’ and how it has been inspiring others to migrate to the Middle East to become successful and ‘Global’ Muslim Citizens. The concepts of umma and cosmopolitan constitu...
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