Nicky Gregson, Mike Crang, Farid Uddin Ahamed, Nazneen Akhter et al.
Rosemary Crompton, Clare Lyonette
This paper critically examines two strands within contemporary gender essentialism--that is, the argument that men and women are fundamentally different and that it is this 'difference' that explains the continuing social and material differences between the sexes. The first strand we examine is Hak...
Naila Kabeer
This paper challenges the idea that a “social clause” to enforce global labor standards through international trade agreements serves the interests of women export workers in poor countries. Drawing on fieldwork in Bangladesh and empirical studies, the author argues that exploitative as these jobs a...
AKM Ahsan Ullah
Rohingya refugees from the Arakan state of Myanmar found their ways a number of times to Bangladesh to escape state-sponsored persecution. While there is no dearth of studies on refugees, Rohingya has so far received very little research attention. This article tries to understand the dynamics and s...
Tahir Abbas, Tariq Modood
* Acknowledgements * Notes on Contributors * Foreword - Professor Tariq Modood, * PART I FROM ISLAM TO BRITISH MUSLIMS? * 1. British South Asian Muslims: State and Multicultural Society - Tahir Abbas * 2. Muslims in the UK - Ceri Peach * 3. Muslims in Britain: Issues, Policy and Practice - Muhammad ...
Alexis Heraclides
Instances of external state involvement in seven postwar secessionist movements—those of Katanga, Biafra, the Southern Sudan, Bangladesh, Iraqi Kurdistan, Eritrea, and the Moro region of the Philippines—were analyzed to shed light on the patterns of interaction between the international system and s...
Vishanth Weerakkody, Ramzi El‐Haddadeh, Faris Al‐Sobhi, Mahmud Akhter Shareef et al.
The adoption and diffusion of electronic government is often impeded by many social and individual factors relating to citizens. In this respect, intermediaries have emerged as a new model for delivering e-government services to overcome such obstacles. This study aims to examine the role of interme...
Gyanendra Pandey
Much has been written about the extraordinary violence of recent history, its brutality, and the impossibility of describing it. Routine Violence focuses on the violence of much more routine political practices - the drawing up of political categories and the writing of national histories. The book ...
Richard D. Sisson, Leo E. Rose
A decade after the 1971 wars in South Asia, the principal decisionmakers were still uncertain why wars so clearly unwanted had occurred. The authors reconstruct the complex decisionmaking process attending the break-up of Pakistan and the subsequent war between India and Pakistan. Much of their data...
Thomas M. Franck, Nigel Rodley
In the Bangladesh crisis, two important objectives of international law appeared to be in conflict: that of peace and that of justice. The former objective is set out in the rules of the U.N. Charter against the use of force by states except in self-defense against an armed attack. The second is fou...
In a comparative and historical study of the interplay between democratic politics and authoritarian states in South Asia, Ayesha Jalal explains how a shared colonial legacy led to apparently contrasting patterns of political development - democracy in India and authoritarianism in Pakistan and Bang...
Jessica Stern
This spring the U.S. State Department reported that South Asia has replaced the Middle East as the leading locus of terrorism in the world. Although much has been written about religious militants in the Middle East and Afghanistan, little is known in the West about those in Pakistan?perhaps because...
Abul Hasnat Milton, Md Mijanur Rahman, Sumaira Hussain, Charulata Jindal et al.
The Rohingya people are one of the most ill-treated and persecuted refugee groups in the world, having lived in a realm of statelessness for over six generations, and who are still doing so. In recent years, more than 500,000 Rohingyas fled from Myanmar (Burma) to neighboring countries. This article...
Valentine M. Moghadam
* List of acronyms and abbreviations * Glossary * Note on transliteration * Preface and acknowledgements * 1. Introduction and overview - Valentine M Moghadam * 2. Feminine Militancy: Moudjahidates during and after the Algerian War - Cherifa Bouatta * 3. Algeria at a crossroads: national liberation,...
Bryan Bruns, Ruth Meinzen‐Dick
This book presents a thorough exploration of water rights in the context of growing water scarcity and competition. It uses case studies from across the globe to identify: *the range of water rights and basis for claims on the resource. *local experiences in negotiating water rights and opportunitie...