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"Inclusion and Exclusion of the Urban Poor in Dhaka explores how the inhabitants of poor neighborhoods in Dhaka, Bangladesh, gain inclusion in the city at the face of exclusion. The book considers how the people of poor neighborhoods encounter the exclusionary behavior of city development, and how their inclusionary attempts have influenced the urban design. The book is presented in two parts: first, it explains how people in poor neighborhoods face exclusion because of the imbalance of power and politics. Second, it demonstrates how the existing exclusion of urban poor is affecting their strategies to gain access to urban services through people's power and politics. Focusing on the transdisciplinary field of urban anthropology, the chapters uncover the urban forces, policies and actions that facilitate urban politics. It also investigates the people who live in poor neighborhoods, who in the face of exclusion, have included themselves in urban development planning and design by employing diverse strategies against those forces in the urban politics, e.g., accepting dominance, bargaining, or having control over their lives. This book will recontextualize an ethnographic inquiry into the exclusion and inclusion of the people within city development design, plans and innovations in applications of anthropological theory and methodology. This book will encourage the reader to understand the politics of state's development projects and plans, and furthermore instigate the city government, planners and policymakers to focus on the people's political power and agency that enables them to achieve inclusion. It will therefore be of interest to researchers and students of urban planning and development, urban geography, and urban anthropology, as well as planning professionals and policymakers"--

The images and messages of a particular advertisement can influence consumers' perspectives about a product, even for menstrual products like sanitary napkins, irrespective of what social class or position they belong to. In the context of Bangladesh, the number of advertisements produced for sanitary napkins is small, and in most cases, the advertisements that exist portray content based on a higher or middle-class lifestyle and affairs, thus creating the ideology that sanitary pads as a product are only made for higher or middle-class women. This study empirically analyses the sanitary pad advertisements in Bangladesh with a focus on the underrepresentation of poor women. It also raises important questions, including whether the media consciously denies the reality of poor women in the pad advertisements. Taking nine sanitary pad advertisements into consideration, the content analysis method has been used to scrutinize these advertisements and later to determine the significance of connected advertisements. The means of grandiloquence in terms of the represented casts' attire, professions, and lifestyles are identified from the content analyses of the sanitary pad advertisements. The presence of poor class women's menstrual affairs in the sanitary pad advertisement is a necessity to influence their attitude.
Social Science Review, Vol. 40(2), December 2023 Page: 127-142