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altaf.anthro@ru.ac.bd, alt.hossain@gmail.com

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MOHAMMAD ALTAF HOSSAIN
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Anthropology


Education Summary  
Ph.D. (Maynooth University, Ireland), M.S.S. & B.S.S. (Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh)

Research Interest  
Risk and Disaster, Development, Environmental Change, Social Policy, Agriculture and Food, Migration, Corruption
Level Institution Year
Doctoral
(Ph.D.)
Maynooth University, IRELAND 2019
Masters
(M.S.S. in Anthropology)
Jahangirnagar University, BANGLADESH 2006
Bachelor/Honors
(B.S.S. in Anthropology)
Jahangirnagar University, BANGLADESH 2005

Experience in Rajshahi University

Duration Organization/Institute Position
2020-03-03 to Department of Anthropology Associate Professor
2013-01-02 to 2020-03-02 Department of Anthropology, University of Rajshahi ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
2010-01-02 to 2013-01-01 Department of Anthropology, University of Rajshahi LECTURER

Experience in other Organization/Institute

Not Available

Book Chapter

1. Hossain, Mohammad Altaf "Charting fields of uncertainty: disaster, displacement and resilience in Bangladeshi char villages, in Mahnaz Alimardanian and Timothy Heffernan (eds.), The Anthropology of Ambiguity" Manchester University Press

Published: May 2024
2. হোসেন, মোহাম্মদ আলতাফ হোসেন "কোভিড-১৯, সামাজিক বিজ্ঞান ও জনস্বাস্থ্য (Covid-19, Social Science and Public Health)" Covid-19 Diary. Edited by Zahir Ahmed and Harisur Rahman, published by Sangbed and Society for Anthropological Research Bangladesh, pp. 155-165.

Published: February 2021

Journal

1. Hossain, Mohammad Altaf "Women's Vulnerability to Natural Hazards on Riverine Islands in Northern Bangladesh" Man, Environment and Society, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 1-15

Published: August 2021
2. Hossain, Mohammad Altaf "Political Ecology of Disaster Vulnerability and People's Limited Agency on Char-Lands" Rajshahi University Journal of Social Science and Business Studies. Vol. 25 (2017), pp. 35-48. ISSN 2309-0898.

Published: January 2021
3. Hossain, Mohammad Altaf "In Search of Social Capital and Livelihoods: Experiences of Hazard-Induced Migrants in Dhaka" Man and Culture, 5(1): 139-162

Published: December 2020
4. হোসেন, মোহাম্মদ আলতাফ "দুর্যোগ নৃবিজ্ঞান এবং বাংলাদেশের প্রেক্ষিতে কোভিড-১৯ (Disaster Anthropology and Covid-19 in the Context of Bangladesh)" নৃবিজ্ঞান পত্রিকা (Journal of Anthropology), Vol. 25, pp. 19-38

Published: June 2020
5. মু. মুজীবুল আনাম, মোহাম্মদ আলতাফ হোসেন এবং অন্যান্য "করোনাকালে ‘ওয়ার্কিং ফ্রম হোম’-এর অভিজ্ঞতার আলোকে একটি নৃবৈজ্ঞানিক পর্যবেক্ষণ: ‘বাড়ি’র প্রেক্ষিতকরণ ও পুন:ধারণায়ন" নৃবিজ্ঞান পত্রিকা (Journal of Anthropology), ভলিউম ২৫, পৃ. ১-১৮

Published: June 2020
6. Hossain, Mohammad Altaf "Political Economy of Disaster Vulnerability: Ethnographic Evidence from a Char Village of Bangladesh" Man and Culture: A Journal of the Institute of Social Research and Applied Anthropology, vol. 4, no. 3, July-December, pp.69-88.

Published: November 2019
7. Hossain, Mohammad Altaf "Climatic Hazards and Inhabitants of Char in Bangladesh" Nrvijnana Patrika (Journal of Anthropology), vol. 23, pp. 89-102, Department of Anthropology, Jahangirnagar University

Published: June 2018
8. Hossain, Mohammad Altaf "Implications of Anthropology in the Corporate Sector in Bangladesh" Nrvijnana Patrika (Journal of Anthropology), Vol. 16, pp.63-78, Department of Anthropology, Jahangirnagar University

Published: June 2011
9. Hossain, Mohammad Altaf "Conceptualizing Poverty across the Experience and Social Relation" Nrvijnana Patrika (Journal of Anthropology) vol. 15, pp.113-130, Department of Anthropology, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka

Published: June 2010

Anth 203: Economic Anthropology

Economic anthropology illustrates that peoples’ economic behaviors and perceptions are deeply embedded in cultural systems in which they live. Economic behaviors can be distributed into different concepts such as production, distribution, exchange, etc.

Anth 401: Critical Anthropological Theories

This course provides the paradigm shifts in anthropological theories and illustrates the emergence of critical theories such as postmodernism.

Anth 511: Anthropology of Disasters

This course provides anthropological perspectives on hazards, risks, disasters and vulnerabilities.

Anth 406: Social Change and Development

Description Not Provided

Anth 307: Bangladesh: History, Culture and Society

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Anth 305: Gender Relations

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Anth 510: Anthropology of Climate and Agrarian Change

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January

2020

Rajshahi, Bangladesh

Presented a paper titled “Livelihood Development as Discourse: Making Uncertain Hope in Char Villages of Bangladesh” in the 6th National Seminar on “Inclusive Development and Challenges in Bangladesh,” organized by the Institute of Social Research and Applied Anthropology (ISRAA), held at Ashrai, Paba, Rajshahi, during 24-25 January 2020.

December 2019

Canberra, Australia

Presented a paper titled “Living with uncertainty and hope on char-land in Bangladesh” in an international conference titled AAS2019: Values in Anthropology, Values of Anthropology, organized by Australian Anthropological Society (AAS), held at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, during 2-5 December 2019.

  • Anth 511: Anthropology of Disasters
  • Anth 401: Critical Anthropological Theories
    • Syllabus
    • Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties_by_ Sherry B. Ortner (1984)
    • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions_by_Thomas S. Kuhn (1962)
  • Anth 203: Economic Anthropology
    • A handbook of economic anthropology_edited_ (2005)