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How to be visible in student politics : performativity and the digital public space in Bangladesh Ghent University

Julian Kuttig, Bert Suykens
In Bangladeshi student politics, political performances in public spaces play an essential role in establishing patronage relationships and determining local authority structures. As Thomas Blom Hansen has famously argued, "visibility means everything" in such a context. With the emergence of social networking sites like Facebook, new digital public spaces have appeared. Focusing on ruling-party student activists at Rajshahi University, this ...

The past, present and future of slum property regimes in Chittagong, Bangladesh Ghent University

Bert Suykens
This article argues for the need to take time into account when understanding land ownership in slums. It shows that this allows comprehending more accurately the place of land law and the specific forms that legal struggles over land take. Field research in a slum in Chittagong (in Bangladesh) reveals that while contemporary practices of ownership and transfer might appear to be informal and illegal, they are not only grounded in historical ...

A comparative analysis of Bangladesh Water Management Practice with European Framework Directives Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Masud Alam, Philippe Quevauviller
Until 90, water management plans in Bangladesh focused mainly to
controlling floods and facilitates drainage and irrigation which were segregate
plans, and caused detrimental effects of other sectors such as water supply,
sanitation, industry, fisheries plus environmental and other in-stream
demands. For avoiding the fragmentation, the country has achieved a
remarkable progress in Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) ...

The dynamic relationships between world and domestic prices of rice under the regime of agricultural trade liberalization in Bangladesh Ghent University

Mohammad Alam, Jeroen Buysse, Andrew M McKenzie, Ismat Ara Begum, Eric J Wailes, Guido Van Huylenbroeck
The article examines the dynamic relationship between the world and the domestic market price of rice for Bangladesh given agricultural trade liberalization. A Johansen multivariate cointegration test was used, followed by an error correction model. Results show that there exists a long-run unidirectional equilibrium relationship, meaning that the domestic prices adjust to the world prices but not vice versa. Our results highlight the dependence ...

Perceptions of mental illness in a Bangladesh village Ghent University

Nasima Selim, Priya Pramod Satalkar
In this paper, we discuss the perceptions of people from a Bangladeshi village about what they considered to be 'mental illness'. Observations, informal conversations, interviews, focus group discussions, and illness narratives include the perspectives of both the caregivers and the patients in Kakabo. The villagers provided us with local terms (e.g., paglami), their beliefs about illness causation, treatment, and its effects. Some illnesses ...

The Bangladesh party-state : a diachronic comparative analysis of party-political regimes Ghent University

Bert Suykens
Since independence in 1971, both civilian and military regimes have ruled Bangladesh. As many other military regimes did, the latter civilianised their rule through the formation of political parties and participation in general elections. When diachronically analysing political formations in Bangladesh, it is appealing to make a clear-cut distinction between autocratic and democratic regimes. However, this article argues that throughout its ...

“The Khilafah’s Soldiers in Bengal”: Analysing the Islamic State Jihadists and Their Violence Justification Narratives in Bangladesh Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Saimum Parvez
The Islamic State (IS) is going through a shift in its strategy and tactics with a major organisational restructuring in the post-Caliphate phase. Instead of controlling a territory with a centralised system, the jihadist organisation is attempting to expand its ideologies via local affiliates, exploiting existing local grievances. Although South Asia receives priority in IS’ ambition of expansion, the extant literature on the role of the ...

An Evaluation of Integrated Water resources management (IWRM) activities in Bangladesh Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Masud Alam, Philippe Quevauviller
For resolving adverse impact in water sector (such as severe flooding,
sedimentation of river channels, erosion of the riverbanks, scarcity of water during
the dry season, saline intrusion and environmental degradation in particular in the
Southwest, cyclones and tidal surges in coastal areas, heavy arsenic contamination
of groundwater etc.) in Bangladesh, lot of studies and programs have been under
taken by the Government of ...

Community-based approaches and partnerships innovations in health-service delivery in Bangladesh Institute of Tropical Medicine

Shams Arifeen, Aliki Christou, Laura Reichenbach, Ferdous Arfina Osman, Kishwar Azad, Khaled Shamsul Islam, Faruque Ahmed, Henry B Perry, David H. Peters

In Bangladesh, rapid advancements in coverage of many health interventions have coincided with impressive reductions in fertility and rates of maternal, infant, and childhood mortality. These advances, which have taken place despite such challenges as widespread poverty, political instability, and frequent natural disasters, warrant careful analysis of Bangladesh's approach to health-service delivery in the past four decades. With reference ...

Birth preparedness and complication readiness (BPCR) among pregnant women in hard-to-reach areas in Bangladesh Institute of Tropical Medicine

Md Moinuddin, Aliki Christou, Dewan Md Emdadul Hoque, Tazeen Tahsina, Shumona Sharmin Salam, Sk Masum Billah, Lianne Kuppens, Md Ziaul Matin, Shams El Arifeen

BACKGROUND: Birth preparedness and complication readiness aims to reduce delays in care seeking, promote skilled birth attendance, and facility deliveries. Little is known about birth preparedness practices among populations living in hard-to-reach areas in Bangladesh.

OBJECTIVES: To describe levels of birth preparedness and complication readiness among recently delivered women, identify determinants of being better prepared for ...