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bokhtiar_ahmed@ru.ac.bd

Room 127D, Syed Ismail Hossain Shirazee Bhaban University of Rajshahi Rajshahi 6205, Bangladesh


BOKHTIAR AHMED
PROFESSOR
Anthropology


Education Summary  
PhD (ACU), MSCD (UoW), MSS & BSS (DU)

Research Interest  
Power and Political Orders, Language & communication, labour mobility, trade and market systems, social movements, climate change and ecology, Disaster and Vulnerability, social protection, and gendered exclusions.
Level Institution Year
Doctoral
(PhD)
Australian Catholic University 2017
Masters
(MSCD)
University of Wollongong 2007
Masters
(MSS)
Dhaka University 2001
Bachelor/Honors
(BSS)
Dhaka University 1998

Experience in Rajshahi University

Duration Organization/Institute Position
2018-12-24 to Department of Anthropology PROFESSOR
2013-07-08 to 2018-12-23 Department of Anthropology Associate Professor
2005-02-16 to 2013-07-07 Department of Anthropology ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
2002-12-31 to 2005-02-15 Department of Anthropology LECTURER

Experience in other Organization/Institute

Not Available

Book Chapter

1. Bokhtiar Ahmed "The Pedagogy of Progress: Developmental Politics in the Chittagong Hill tracts" in Nasir Uddin (ed.), Life in Peace and Conflict: Indigeneity and State in in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Black Swan, New Delhi.

Published: August 2020
2. Bokhtiar Ahmed "‘Bhasha, Songhkriti O Manob Shotta: Ekti Nriboigganik Alapcharita’ (Language, Culture and Human Entity: An Anthropological Discourse)" in Afzal Khan (ed.), Vinnochokh: Bhasha Shongkha, Vinnochokh, Dhaka. (In Bengali)

Published: December 2014
3. Bokhtiar Ahmed "Margin, Minorities, and a Political Economy of Displacement: The Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh" in R Ganguly-Scrase & K Lahiri Dutt (eds.), Rethinking Displacement: Asia Pacific Perspective, Ashgate, London. Pp. 173-194.

Published: December 2012
4. Bokhtiar Ahmed & Raasheed Mahmood "The Semiosis of the Feminine in Bangla Language" Chapter 4 in C. Sarmento (ed.), Eastwards/Westwards: Which Direction for Gender Studies in the 21st Century?, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, UK. Pp. 93-108.

Published: December 2007
5. Bokhtiar Ahmed "Edward Said O Poshchimer Prachcho Dorshon’ (Edward Said: Watching the Watcher)" in Benjin Khan (ed.), Edward Said: Abishsho Bibeker Konthoshshor, Chihno Publsihers, Dhaka, Pp. 174-203. (In Bengali)

Published: February 2005

Journal

1. Bokhtiar Ahmed "Bhasha, Shongskriti O Jatishotta Proshne Amader Jatirashtro’ (The Nation-state of Bangladesh: Questions of Language, Culture and Ethnicity)" Dipayan Khisa (ed), Maoroom, vol-17, March 2006, Dhaka, Pp. 07-26. (In Bengali)

Published: December 2006
2. Bokhtiar Ahmed and Raasheed Mahmood "'Shankot O Shastrio Adikolpolpo: Shastrobider Dai-Dayitto’ (Crisis and Disciplinary Paradigms: on Responsibilities of Academics)" The Dhaka University Studies, Vol 23, Issue-2. 2004. Dhaka, Bangladesh, Pp. 72-103. (In Bengali)

Published: December 2004

Exhibition

1. Bokhtiar Ahmed "Living No One Behind: Hijra Lives in Bangladesh" Published by UNDP Bangladesh.

Published: September 2017
2. Bokhtiar Ahmed & Shahidul Islam Ripon "Prantojono Kotha, (Tells of the Subalterns)" A Documentary on the Indigenous people and other Marginalized Groups in the Northern Bangladesh.

Published: December 2014
3. Bokhtiar Ahmed & Shahidul Islam Ripon "Shokal Belar Pakhi (The Morning Birds)" A documentary on Working Children in Bangladesh.

Published: July 2002

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ANP-425: Anthropology of South Asia

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