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In general, reflexivity is a turning back on oneself, a process of self-reference which recognizes the centrality of the subjectivity of the researcher to the production and representation of ethnographic knowledge. As I have done this research in my own social and cultural setting, this research has been immensely influenced and shaped by my own experience, memory and understanding of film and media. My ethnographic self has been a valuable resource for my research.
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I take bhodro as a cultural category that defines the boundary of moddhobitto or the middle class.
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There was a general understanding among the shop owners and sellers that anyone can copy foreign films and music as they were not subject to copyright. Some, however, suspected that their business might be lost in case the government put a halt to the copying business.
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Hartal or violent strikes were called by political parties to achieve their goals. Non-stop hartal was a common scene in Bangladesh in 2013 and 2014 following the demand for a national election under a free and fair caretaker government and as a protest against the trial of political leaders for their alleged war crimes in 1971.
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Rahman, H. (2020). Ethnographic Fieldwork: The Self as an Informant and an Observer. In: Consuming Cultural Hegemony. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31707-2_3
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