Precarious lives caused by COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study among the urban middle-class in Dhaka, Bangladesh

This study closely examines the precarious situation and affective impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown on the urban middle-class population of Dhaka City, Bangladesh. The main argument of this thesis is: that the urban middle-class of Bangladesh has been through the traumatic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and are still bearing scars, which have hardly been noticed by the appropriate authorities and the media. Using a multi-method qualitative approach and sampling, this field-based study has attempted to explore the answers to questions regarding the community of interest's uncertainties of life, the affective impacts of the pandemic, the adaptive strategies adopted by the people of the community of interest to cope with the sufferings of the pandemic, and their interpretations of their pandemic experience. The results unveil the losses, survival strategies, and fears that they experienced during the pandemic, contributing to the existing knowledge on the middle-class and affective experience of the pandemic.