Stealing Shahbag: A Re-Legitimization of Islamism in the Aftermath of a Secularist Social Movement

A. D. Roy
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The Shahbag movement emerged in early February of 2013 as a sit-in protest in the Shahbag square of Dhaka city on the demands of capital punishment of war criminals of the 1971 liberation war of Bangladesh. This paper evaluates the movement as case study for the framing tasks theory of social movements and explores how faulty framing of the movement grievances led to counterproductive consequences for the movement constituents. The theoretical analysis is supported by the empirical findings of an original public opinion survey of up to 300 movement participants. Key movement leaders and movement critics were also interviewed through open-ended questions to further inform the survey data. The paper provides a genealogy of the secularist civil society framing tasks and shows how Shahbag, after originating from that frame, eventually shifted away from it under the a politically coopted leadership. As a consequence, the Islamist civil society mobilized a countermovement under the banner of Hefazat-e-Islam, which lead to the re-legitimation of Islamism as a political ideology and reestablished Islamists as an influential interest group.
偷沙包:世俗主义社会运动后伊斯兰主义的重新合法化
Shahbag运动始于2013年2月初,当时人们在达卡的Shahbag广场静坐抗议,要求对1971年孟加拉国解放战争中的战犯判处死刑。本文评估了该运动作为社会运动框架任务理论的案例研究,并探讨了运动不满的错误框架如何导致运动成分产生适得其反的后果。理论分析得到了对300名运动参与者的原始民意调查的实证结果的支持。主要的运动领袖和运动评论家也通过开放式问题接受采访,以进一步告知调查数据。本文提供了世俗主义公民社会框架任务的谱系,并展示了Shahbag如何在起源于该框架之后,最终在政治上选择的领导下摆脱它。结果,伊斯兰民间社会在伊斯兰大会党(Hefazat-e-Islam)的旗帜下发动了一场反运动,使伊斯兰主义作为一种政治意识形态重新合法化,并使伊斯兰主义者重新成为一个有影响力的利益集团。
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