Ein neuer Blick auf die Vergangenheit, Visionen der Zukunft: Das Muktijoddha Jadughar (Liberation War Museum) in Bangladesch als Schau-Platz des Widerstands
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Ein neuer Blick auf die Vergangenheit, Visionen der Zukunft: Das Muktijoddha Jadughar (Liberation War Museum) in Bangladesch als Schau-Platz des Widerstands
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Reframing a Past, Imagining a Future: The Bangladesh's Muktijoddha Jadughar (Liberation War Museum) as a Site of Resistance
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Twenty-four years after an anti-colonial struggle against the British, the war in East Pakistan was a struggle for a second independence, this time from Pakistan. It took another twenty-five years for a constituency of public citizens to build a national war museum demanding recognition of this genocidal liberation war and its freedom fighters. Focusing on the Muktijoddha Jadughar (Liberation War Museum) as a site of recuperation and contestation, I offer a reading of Bangladeshi history that acknowledges the centrality of independence in (re)constructing national belonging. Drawing on debates on state and nationalism, and museums and memory I show how publics can "rescue history from the nation" and challenge exclusions in the hegemonic nationalist narrative. In this account, the crises of military rule and fragile democratic governments are charted to highlight ongoing tensions between secular versus religious state forms and demands for accountability from those identified as enemy collaborators. Evidence drawn from the Museum collection and archival materials provide the case material for the argument that resistance to the exclusion of events offers a critical site for examining challenges to current accounts of Bangladeshi history.