Postmodernism and the production of new space in Dhaka city

Abstract

The worldwide shifts in cultural as well as in political-economic activities since 1972 has profoundly affected all the developed country's and former third world countries. Bangladesh, during 1971 achieved its independence as a country and followed economic path to socialist guidelines of state domiantion. The guidelines could be practiced through the spirit of people's enthusiasm but mischievous state mechanism couldn't practice it because of its confusion or pressures from the western capitalist country's development route to modernity through structural adjustment programmes. Long path has gone after the confusions and uncertainties. At the edge of 1990, the whole socialist block or soviet communism decayed finally and Bangladesh entered in the world of Global capitalism with full confidence and enthusiasm. As capitalism and it's development strategies was dependent on neoliberal ideologies and market mechanism of imbalanced economic strategies, Bangladesh has entered in the world of global capitalism with great confidence. This entrance has made possible for Bangladesh to the emergence of a 'Plundering class'. The uneven development of worldwide unequal capitalist systems touched Bangladesh and it's capital city Dhaka with huge manner. With the advent of shifting dimensions of time and space, made a relation between rise of postmodernist cultural forms, the emergence of more flexible modes of capital accumulation. Dhaka city became the centre of attraction as the hub of global culture and local culture. The market circulation of commodities found the Dhaka city a perfect place of bridges like any other global cities of emerging countries. The satellite world, the rise of global media, the launching of deshi TV channels, the aesthetics of advertisements and images, the colourful beauty of consumer world, the grandness of shopping malls as the perfect hub for world products and commodities, the global world of different taste of different cultures and subjectivities affected the young generations from the middle and upper class background. The global and local cultures has found it's effective trace among that sections of youth. Dhaka city became the produced spaces of consumption and became the network for other global city's and the other town districts of Bangladesh. The shifting culture and it's consequences is very urgent to understand the crises of young generations and the scenario of Bangladesh from the context of postmodern shifting of time-space sensibilities.