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Books

The Bangladesh Environmental Humanities Reader

2022. “Resisting a Coal Mine in Bangladesh and Immigrants in the United Kingdom: the new agents/ actors in transnational environmental politics” in The Bangladesh Environmental Humanities Reader: Environmental Justice, Developmental Victimhood, and Resistance. Lexington, USA.

Vulnerable Empowerment Capabilities And Vulnerabilities Of Female Garments Workers In Bangladesh

Vulnerable Empowerment: Understanding Capabilities and Vulnerabilities of Female Garment Workers in Bangladesh. 2016. [Book with Z. Chowdhury, and K. Gayen]. Bangladesh Mahila Parishad: Dhaka.

Book chapters

জুলাই অভ্যুত্থানের পূর্বাপর: মানবতাবিরোধী অপরাধের প্রেক্ষাপটে দাঁড়িয়ে বাংলাদেশের বুদ্ধিজীবীর রূপান্তর

2025 [in Bangla] “Before and after July Uprising: transformation of the intellectuals in the context of crimes against humanity” in July Uprising Essay Collection 2025, Bangla Academy, 375-387, Dhaka. [“জুলাই অভ্যুত্থানের পূর্বাপর: মানবতাবিরোধী অপরাধের প্রেক্ষাপটে দাঁড়িয়ে বাংলাদেশের বুদ্ধিজীবীর রূপান্তর”, সহুল আহমেদ সম্পাদিত জুলাই গণ-অভ্যুত্থানের প্রবন্ধ, বাংলা একাডেমি, ঢাকা। জুলাই ২০২৫, ৩৭৫- ৩৮৭]

Social and Political Movements in Bangladesh

2024. [with Wasifa Tasnim Shamma as second author], “Social and Political Movements in Bangladesh” in S. Halim, ASM Amanullah and R.I. Nasir (eds) Society and Sociology in Bangladesh: A South Asian perspective, The Department of Sociology and The University Press Limited. Dhaka.

Can Female Performers Be Heard? Her Stories in Theatre of Bangladesh (1950s–2010s)

2023. 'Can Female Performers Be Heard? Her Stories in Theatre of Bangladesh (1950s–2010s)', in Manujendra Kundu (ed.), Women Performers in Bengal and Bangladesh: Caught up in the Culture of South Asia (1795-2010s) (Oxford, 2023; online edition, Oxford Academic.

Resisting a Coal Mine in Bangladesh and Immigrants in the United Kingdom: the new agents/ actors in transnational environmental politics

2022. “Resisting a Coal Mine in Bangladesh and Immigrants in the United Kingdom: the new agents/ actors in transnational environmental politics” in The Bangladesh Environmental Humanities Reader: Environmental Justice, Developmental Victimhood, and Resistance. Lexington, USA.

Neo-Liberal Agenda and Gender: The Case of Mandi Women

2020. “Neo-Liberal Agenda and Gender: The Case of Mandi Women”. In: Neo-liberal [Development]: People in the Margins. T. Khan and S. Rahman (Eds.). University Press Limited: Dhaka.

Life and Work of Bangladeshi Garment Workers: tales of negotiation and resistance of female workers against the state and capital

2022. [in Bangla] “Life and Work of Bangladeshi Garment Workers: tales of negotiation and resistance of female workers against the state and capital”. In: Women in History. pp 193-208. Dhaka: Bangladesh Itihash Parishad.

Thesis and article

Dphil Thesis: “Confronting the Juggernaut of Extraction: Local, National, and Transnational Mobilisation against Phulbari Coal Mine in Bangladesh”

MA Thesis: “Debunking the Myths of Indigenous Knowledge: a Case Study on the Mandis of Madhupur, Bangladesh”

2025. [with Jinat Hossen as first author], “Cultural Barrier and Patriarchal Bargain in Climate Change Adaptation: Evidence from Tiger widows in the Sundarbans delta of Bangladesh”. Gender, Place and Culture. 32(12), 1825–1845

2023. Artworks as Protest after Rana Plaza Collapse: Frames, Emotions, and Injustices in the Workers’ Rights Movement in Bangladesh. December 2023. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. 68(2):153-174,

2019. “Showcasing Environmental Justice Movements from the South: comparing the role of old and new media in Bangladesh” in: Society and Culture in South Asia, Vol 5 (2:1-37).

2017. “Transnational Ties and Reciprocal Tenacity: Resisting mining in Bangladesh with transnational coalition” In: Sociology, Vol 51(1:127-145). February 2017.

2014. “Debunking the Myths of Indigenous Knowledge: towards a political ecology of the Mandi of Madhupur, Bangladesh. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (Hum.), 59(1: 211-237)

2011. “Everything changed after the 26th”: Repression and Resilience against proposed Phulbari Coal Mine in Bangladesh. Queen Elizabeth House Working Paper Series (QEHWPS) no. 193, Oxford: University of Oxford.

2004. “Structural Adjustment Policy, Agriculture and Pauperization in Bangladesh”. The Social Science Review. The Dhaka University Studies Part D Vol. 12, no. 1. Dhaka, Bangladesh.

2004. (with L Rahman), Market-led initiatives for Seed production and Product Processing in Bangladesh. Bangladesh Journal of Political Economy Vol. 20, No. 1 edited by R.K. Talukdar and M.A. S. Mandal. Dhaka: Bangladesh Economic Association.