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    Aesthetics of Living: The Deepening Crises
    (University of North Bengal, 31-03-2021) Roy, Sanjay K.
    A combination of neo-liberalism and right-wing nationalism is out to vitiate democratic orders and citizenship in some parts of the globe. This new order threatens the livelihood of a large majority of the population in one way or the other, destabilizes their livelihood rights, disenfranchises them, constricts their freedom and imprisons their creative faculty in its efforts to enforce a homogenous culture. The prime challenge before the citizens in these countries, therefore, is to defend the individual freedom and agency and right to collective resistance making use of their critical faculty. An ideal benevolent social democratic order, which respects freedom of the subjects and of the communities, upholds the egalitarian and humane ideals and negates any form of coercion or oppression, is everybody’s dream. Such a dream is actualized in some social-democratic countries in the Scandinavian. However, the countries that combine neo-liberal greed with authoritarianism and a monolithic culture betray the livelihood expectations and sabotage the proliferation of an aesthetic life. The task before the enlightened citizens, therefore, is to prepare to be able to decrypt the systemic technology of subversion of human freedom, rights and agency and look for ways and means to preserve the subjective freedom and be a part of the collective moves to create an ideal material and aesthetic order.
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    Reflexive Society and Reflexive Relationships: The Changing Patterns of Family and Friendship in Late Modernity
    (University of North Bengal, 2018-03) Islam, Maidul; Begum, Rozyna
    The conventional definitions and, meanings of marriage, family, family relationship, and kinship ties demand a serious relook as things are changing fast and drastically in the late capitalistic era. New structures and new designs of social relationships are coming up.This article deals with the nature of family formation and their margin of relationships based on secondary sources. On the one hand, late modern familiesoffer greater freedom of life to its members and on the other hand they open up great deal of variations and flexibility while operating as a part of the ‘risk society’.