This article is an ethnographic study of the effects of micro-credit on gender relations in rural Bangladesh. Focusing on the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh and three other leading non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the country, I analyze the role of gender in th...
Saunders, Doug 1967-
Farhana Sultana
This article seeks to contribute to the emerging debates in gender–water and gender–nature literatures by looking at the ways that gendered subjectivities are simultaneously (re)produced by societal, spatial and natural/ecological factors, as well as materialities of the body and of heterogeneous wa...
Alastair Pennycook, Emi Otsuji
By focusing on assembling artefacts (particularly, fish, phones and phone cards) – objects that mediate across geographies, environments, culinary traditions and histories – in two Bangladeshi-run stores in Sydney and Tokyo, we argue in this paper that these objects need to be taken very seriously a...
Pnina Werbner, Helene Basu
The continued vitality of Sufism as a living embodied postcolonial reality challenges the argument that Sufism has 'died' in recent times. Throughout India and Bangladesh, Sufi shrines exist in both the rural and urban areas, from the remotest wilderness to the modern Asian city, lying opposite bank...
Beth Roy
Fascinating in its combination of personal stories and analytical insights, Some Trouble with Cows will help students of conflict understand how a seemingly irrational and archaic riot becomes a means for renegotiating the distribution of power and rights in a small community. Using first-person acc...
Paul Routledge, Kate Driscoll Derickson
Drawing on an analysis of an ongoing collaboration with rural peasant movements in Bangladesh, we explore the possibility of forging solidarity through practices of scholar-activism. In so doing, we consider the practice of reflexivity, reconsider forms of solidarity, and draw on the concept of conv...
Uzma Z. Rizvi
Abstract Acknowledgement I would like to thank my colleagues and friends Praveena Gullapalli and Benjamin Porter for the comments and insights that have helped shaped this piece in its initial stages. Additionally, this work has benefited from my conversations with Sandra Scham. I would also like to...
Naseem Akhter Hussain
Ranjan Datta, Nyojy U. Khyang, Hla Kray Prue Khyang, Hla Aung Prue Kheyang et al.
This paper seeks to explore the relational participatory action research (PAR) frameworks that have been developed to allow non-Indigenous researchers, along with Indigenous co-researcher participants, to learn and honour Indigenous stories. Specifically, in the context of PAR research in the Chitta...
Hosna J. Shewly
Simon Dein, Malcolm Alexander, A. David Napier
This study examines understandings of misfortune among east London Bangladeshis, particularly with respect to the role of jinn spirits. It reports on the findings of ethnographic interviews among 40 members of this community. Appeal to jinn explanations is commonplace at times of psychological distu...
Birgit Meyer
Introduction: From Imagined Communities to Aesthetic Formations: Religious Mediations, Sensational Forms and Styles of Binding B.Meyer PART I: BOUNDARY POLITICS 'Don't ask questions, just observe!': Boundary Politics in Bahian Candomble M.van de Port Purity and the Devil: Community, Media and the Bo...
Caroline B. Brettell, Carolyn Sargent
(NOTE: Eachnew reading is bolded and indicated with an asterisk.) I. BIOLOGY, GENDER, AND HUMAN EVOLUTION. Animal Models and Gender, Marlene Zuk. Role of Women in Human Evolution, Margaret Ehrenberg. Gender and War: Are Women Tough Enough for Military Combat? Lucinda J. Peach. Lifeboat Ethics: Mothe...
James M. Wilce
Abstract Eloquence in Trouble captures the articulation of several troubled lives in Bangladesh as well as the threats to the very genres of their expression, lament in particular. The first ethnography of one of the most spoken mother tongues on earth, Bangla, this study represents a new approach t...