Lisa Sharlach
According to the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of an ethnic, national, or religious group and/or ''deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction ...
Robin Boadway, Michael Keen
Durganand Sinha, Henry S. R. Kao
Introduction - Durganand Sinha and Henry S R Kao Values-Development Congruence PART ONE: SOCIAL VALUES AND DEVELOPMENT: GENERAL REVIEWS Basic Indian Values and Behaviour Dispositions in the Context of National Development - Durganand Sinha An ent An l Chinese Modernisation and Social Values - Lin Fa...
Alvin Kuowei Tay, Andrew Riley, Md. Rafiqul Islam, Courtney Welton‐Mitchell et al.
AIMS: Despite the magnitude and protracted nature of the Rohingya refugee situation, there is limited information on the culture, mental health and psychosocial wellbeing of this group. This paper, drawing on a report commissioned by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), aims to...
Alexander C. Diener, Joshua Hagen
Chapter 1: Introduction: Borders, Identity, and Geopolitics Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen Chapter 2: The Border Enclaves of India and Bangladesh: The Forgotten Lands Reece Jones Chapter 3: The Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan Boundary: Stalin's Cartography, Post-Soviet Geography Nick Megoran Chapter 4: ...
David Lewis
Since its hard-won independence from Pakistan, Bangladesh has been ravaged by economic and environmental disasters. Only recently has the country begun to emerge as a fragile, but functioning, parliamentary democracy. The story of Bangladesh, told through the pages of this concise and readable book,...
Shahjahan Bhuiyan
Farhana Sultana
Scholars have demonstrated that citizenship is tied to water provision in megacities of the Global South where water crises are extensive and the urban poor often do not have access to public water supplies. Drawing from critical feminist scholarship, this article argues for the importance of analyz...
Donald L. Horowitz
In the analysis of ethnic separatism and secession, two approaches can be distinguished. One is to ask what forces are responsbile for the general upsurge in secessionist movements, from Burma te-Biafra and Bangladesh, from Corsica to Quebec, and from Eritrea to the Southern Philippines. Another app...
Mohammad Mehedy Hassan, Audrey Culver Smith, Katherine Walker, Munshi Khaledur Rahman et al.
Following a targeted campaign of violence by Myanmar military, police, and local militias, more than half a million Rohingya refugees have fled to neighboring Bangladesh since August 2017, joining thousands of others living in overcrowded settlement camps in Teknaf. To accommodate this mass influx o...
Bangladesch
Kasia Paprocki
Development in Bangladesh is increasingly defined by and through an adaptation regime, a socially and historically specific configuration of power that governs the landscape of possible intervention in the face of climate change. It includes institutions of development, research, media, and science,...
Ismail K. White, Chryl N. Laird, Troy D. Allen
Departing from accounts of minority group politics that focus on the role of group identity in advancing group members’ common interests, we investigate political decisions involving tradeoffs between group interests and simple self-interest. Using the case of black Americans, we investigate crystal...
Hamza Alavi
The object of this article is to raise some fundamental questions about the classical Marxist theory of the State in the context of post-colonial societies. The argument is premised on the historical specificity of post-colonial societies, a specificity which arises from structural changes brought a...
David Lewis
Since its hard-won independence from Pakistan, Bangladesh has been ravaged by economic and environmental disasters. Only recently has the country begun to emerge as a fragile, but functioning, parliamentary democracy. The story of Bangladesh, told through the pages of this concise and readable book,...