Md Azmeary Ferdoush
Despite a growing body of work, scholars have rarely engaged with the classic divide of structure and agency in border studies. Drawing on theory of structuration by Anthony Giddens, this article proposes a theoretical approach and/or tool that views borders as the result of a continuous production ...
Md Azmeary Ferdoush
After almost seventy years of protracted negotiations, Bangladesh and India exchanged all their border enclaves in the summer of 2015. Nearly 55,000 enclave residents living in these small pieces of lands, both in Bangladesh and India, were given the option to choose their state of citizenship. An o...
Md Azmeary Ferdoush
The former border enclaves of Bangladesh and India existed as extra-territorial spaces since 1947. They were finally exchanged and merged as host state territories in 2015. Sovereign Atonement focuses on the protracted territorial exchange and experiences of the newly accepted Bangladeshi citizens. ...
Md Azmeary Ferdoush
Bangladesh and India exchanged all of their 162 border enclaves in 2015 after 70 years of protracted negotiations. This paper offers an explanation as to why these enclaves were exchanged and why it took so long for the exchange to be executed. In so doing, I offer the concept of “symbolic spaces” t...
Md Azmeary Ferdoush
This is an exploratory study to find out how kotis (a category of homosexual) develop their sexual identity in a developing country like Bangladesh, which is predominantly a Muslim society. To do so, the six-stage model of homosexual identity development by Cass was adopted. Face-to-face unstructure...
Md Azmeary Ferdoush
Bangladesh and India share 198 enclaves between them with a population of about 52,000. The enclave dwellers have to cross the international border of two different sovereign states each and every day merely to survive. While under normal circumstances this crossing should have been treated as ‘ille...
Md Azmeary Ferdoush
Drawing on a fourteen-month ethnographic fieldwork experience along the border of Bangladesh and India, I offer a narrative of daily challenges and uncertainties in the ‘field’. Highlighting my positionality and reflexivity, I suggest that first, although a researcher may use social capital to gain ...
Md Azmeary Ferdoush
Abstract The former border enclaves of Bangladesh and India, which were small pieces of one state entirely surrounded by the other, existed as extraterritorial spaces from 1947 until 2015. Since these spaces were subject to state violence but remained completely excluded from the protections provide...
Md Azmeary Ferdoush, Reece Jones
After a complex and protracted negotiation for almost 70 years, Bangladesh and India decided to exchange their border enclaves in 2015. Almost 55,000 people were living in these enclaves at the time of exchange and they were given the option to choose their state of citizenship. Drawing on this exch...
Md Azmeary Ferdoush
The former enclaves of Bangladesh and India existed as de facto stateless spaces for almost seventy years before they were exchanged and merged with the host state territories in 2015. Because of their extra-territorial existence, land ownership and transactions remained effectively a local affair i...
Md Azmeary Ferdoush
This dissertation explores how the exchange of the Bangladesh-India enclaves in July 2015 affected the lives of the residents in terms of their experience with citizenship and their understanding of territory. After the partition of India in 1947, 198 border enclaves were created that were entirely ...
Md Azmeary Ferdoush
<p dir="ltr">Giorgio Agamben’s theorization of the exception marks a shift in geographical scholarship and other social sciences. I argue, however, that although equally crucial, the example remains a surprisingly understudied phenomenon even though Agamben views it as the symmetrical opposite of th...
Md Azmeary Ferdoush
Drawing on newly incorporated citizens’ experiences, interviews with numerous state officials, and field observations in the former border enclaves of India inside Bangladesh after their exchange in 2015, I contend that the state of Bangladesh took extraordinary measures to incorporate its new citiz...
Md Azmeary Ferdoush
The former border enclaves of Bangladesh and India existed as extra-territorial spaces from 1947 until 2015, where enclave residents lived as a de facto ‘stateless’ population. Scholars have applied Agambenian framework of sovereign exclusion and bare lives to understand such abandonment. Analysing ...
Md Azmeary Ferdoush
Identity is elusive yet ubiquitous across space and place. Identity politics is therefore marked with heterogeneity, ambiguity, and complexity. This chapter operates on the assumption that identity politics is essentially a politics of exclusionary categories, both social and spatial. It starts with...