The States
of Bangladesh

LSE Research, Commentary and Analysis

• Death of a Migrant: Transnational Death Rituals and Gender among British Sylhetis: Gardner, K. (2002) 

  Anthropology

  21/09/2021 — Global Networks

• Keeping Connected: Security, Place, and Social Capital in a "Londoni" Village in Sylhet: Gardner, K. (2008) 

  Anthropology

  21/09/2021 — Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

• Degrees of Separation: Informal Social Protection, Relatedness and Migration in Biswanath, Bangladesh: Gardner, K. and Ahmed, Z. (2009) 

  Anthropology

  21/09/2021 — Journal of Development Studies

• Chevron’s Gift of CSR: Moral Economies of Connection and Disconnection in a Transnational Bangladeshi Village: Gardner, K. (2016)

  Anthropology

  21/09/2021 — Economy and Society

• The Path to Happiness? Prosperity, Suffering, and Transnational Migration in Britain and Sylhet: Gardner, K. (2015) 

  Anthropology

  21/09/2021 — HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory

• Our Own Poor: Transnational Charity, Development Gifts and the Politics of Suffering in Sylhet and the UK: Gardner, K. (2018)  

  Anthropology

  21/09/2021 — Modern Asian Studies

• We Demand Work! "Dispossession", Patronage and Village Labour in Bibiyana, Bangladesh: Gardner, K. (2018) 

  Anthropology

  21/09/2021 — Journal of Peasant Studies

• Field of Dreams: Imagining Development and Un-development at a Gas Field in Sylhet: Gardner, K., Ahmed, Z., Rana, M. and Bashir, F. (2014)

  Anthropology

  21/09/2021 — South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal

• The Power of Relationships: Love and Solidarity in a Landless Women’s Organisation: Kabeer, N. and Hug, L. (2010)

  Gender Studies

  21/09/2021 — IDS Bulletin

• ‘Selling our Own Skin’: Social Dispossession Through Microcredit in Rural Bangladesh: Paprocki, K. (2016) 

  Environment, Geography

  21/09/2021 — Geoforum

• Moral and Other Economies: Nijera Kori and its Alternatives to Microcredit:Paprocki, K. (2017) 

  Environment, Geography

  21/09/2021 — Seduced and Betrayed: Exposing the Contemporary Microfinance Phenomenon, (eds) Bateman, M. and MacLean, K., University of New Mexico Press, New Mexico

• Contested Credit Landscapes: Microcredit, Self-Help and Self-Determination in Rural Bangladesh: Cons, J. and Paprocki, K. (2010) 

  Environment, Geography

  21/09/2021 — Third World Quarterly

• Threatening Dystopias: Development and Adaption Regimes in Bangladesh: Paprocki, K. (2018) 

  Environment, Geography

  21/09/2021 — Annals of the American Association of Geographers

• The Transnational Work of Kinship and Caring: Bengali–British Marriages in Historical Perspective: Gardner, K. (2006)

  Anthropology

  21/09/2021 — Global Networks

• Lives in Motion: The Life-course, Movement and Migration in Bangladesh: Gardner, K. (2009) 

  Anthropology

  21/09/2021 — Journal of South Asian Development

• Elusive Partnerships: Gas Extraction and CSR in Bangladesh: Gardner, K., Ahmed, Z., Bashir, F. and Rana, M. (2012) 

  Anthropology

  21/09/2021 — Resources Policy

• My Away is Here': Place, Emplacement and Mobility amongst British Bengali Children: Gardner, K. and Mand, K. (2012) 

  Anthropology

  21/09/2021 — Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

• Dispossession by "Development": Corporations, Elites and NGOs in Bangladesh: Ahasan, A. and Gardner, K. (2016)

  Anthropology

  21/09/2021 — South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal

• Introduction: Land, 'Development' and 'Security' in Bangladesh and India: Gardner, K. and Gerharz, E. (2016) 

  Anthropology

  21/09/2021 — South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal

• Does Paid Work Provide a Pathway to Women's Empowerment? Empirical Findings from Bangladesh: Kabeer, N., Mahmud, S. and Tasneem, S. (2011)

  Gender Studies

  21/09/2021 — Working Paper # 375, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex

• "Citizenship Narratives in the Absence of Good Governance: Voices of the Working Poor in Bangladesh: Kabeer, N. and Kabir, A.H. (2009) "

  Gender Studies

  21/09/2021 — Working Paper # 331, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex

• NGO Strategies and the Challenge of Development and Democracy in Bangladesh: Kabeer, N., Mahmud, S. and Castro, J.G.I. (2010)

  Gender Studies

  21/09/2021 — Working Paper # 343, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex

• Compliance versus Accountability: Struggles for Dignity and Daily Bread in the Bangladesh Garment Industry: Kabeer, N. (2006)

  Gender Studies

  21/09/2021 — Rights, Resources and the Politics of Accountability, (eds) Newell, P. and Wheeler, J., Zed Books, London

• Globalization, Gender and Poverty: Bangladeshi Women Workers in Export and Local Markets: Kabeer, N. and Mahmud, S. (2004)

  Gender Studies

  21/09/2021 — Journal of International Development

• Microfinance and Social Mobilisation. Alternative Pathways to Grassroots Democracy?: Kabeer, N. and Mahmud, S. (2010)

  Gender Studies

  21/09/2021 — Mobilizing for Democracy: Citizen Action and the Politics of Public Participation. Claiming Citizenship: Rights, Participation, Accountability Zed Books, (eds) Coelho, V.S. and von Lieres, B., London

• The Evolving Politics of Labor Standards in Bangladesh: Taking Stock and Looking Forward: Kabeer, N. (2019)

  Economics and International Development

  21/09/2021 — Labor, Global Supply Chains, and the Garment Industry in South Asia: Bangladesh after Rana Plaza, (ed.) Banerjee Saxena, S., Routledge, Abingdon

• Achieving Universal Education and Eliminating Gender Disparity in Bangladesh: Kabeer, N., and Hossain, N. (2004)

  Gender Studies

  21/09/2021 — Economic and Political Weekly

• Conflicts over Credit: Re-evaluating the Empowerment Potential of Loans to Women in Rural Bangladesh: Kabeer, N. (2001)

  Gender Studies

  21/09/2021 — World Development

• Ideas, Economics and "the Sociology of Supply": Explanations for Fertility Decline in Bangladesh: Kabeer, N. (2001)

  Gender Studies

  21/09/2021 — Journal of Development Studies

• Globalization, Gender and Poverty: Bangladeshi Women Workers in Export and Local Markets: Kabeer, N. and Mahmud, S. (2004)

  Gender Studies

  21/09/2021 — Journal of International Development

• Citizenship Narratives in the Face of Bad Governance: The Voices of the Working Poor in Bangladesh: Kabeer, N. (2011)

  Gender Studies

  21/09/2021 — Journal of Peasant Studies

• Between Affiliation and Autonomy: Navigating Pathways of Women's Empowerment and Gender Justice in Rural Bangladesh: Kabeer, N. (2011)

  Gender Studies

  21/09/2021 — Development and Change

• Kabeer, Naila, Mahmud, Simeen and Isaza Castro, Jairo G. (2012) 'NGOs and the Political Empowerment of Poor People in Rural Bangladesh: Cultivating the Habits of Democracy?'

  Gender Studies

  21/09/2021 — World Development

• Diverging Stories of “Missing Women” in South Asia: Is Son Preference Weakening in Bangladesh?: Kabeer, N., Huq, L. and Mahmud, S. (2013)

  Gender Studies

  21/09/2021 — Feminist Economics

• Economic Pathways to Women’s Empowerment and Active Citizenship: What does the Evidence from Bangladesh Tell Us?: Kabeer, N. (2017)

  Gender and Development

  21/09/2021 — Journal of Development Studies

• The Contested Relationship between Paid Work and Women’s Empowerment: Empirical Analysis from Bangladesh: Kabeer, N., Mahmud, S. and Tasneem, S. (2018) 

  Gender and Development

  21/09/2021 — European Journal of Development Research

• Cultural Norms, Economic Incentives and Women's Labour Market Behaviour: Empirical Insights from Bangladesh: Heinz, J., Kabeer, N. and Mahmud, S. (2017)

  Gender and Development

  21/09/2021 — Oxford Development Studies

• Paradigm Shift or Business as Usual? Workers' Views on Multi-stakeholder Initiatives in Bangladesh: Kabeer, N., Huq, L. and Sulaiman, M. (2020)

  Economics and International Development

  21/09/2021 — Development and Change

• Partnership as Process: Building an Institutional Ethnography of an Inter-agency Aquaculture Project in Bangladesh: Lewis, D. (1998)

  Social Policy

  21/09/2021 — Development as Process: Concepts and Methods for Working with Complexity, (eds) Mosse, D., Farrington, J., and Rew, A., Routledge, London

• Old' and 'New' Civil Societies in Bangladesh: Lewis, D. (2004)

  Social Policy

  21/09/2021 — Exploring Civil Society: Political and Cultural Contexts, (eds) Glasius, M., Lewis, D., and Seckinelgin, H. (eds). Routledge, London

• Rice Research, Technological Process, and Impacts on the Poor: The Bangladesh Case: Hossain, M., Lewis, D., Bose, M. and Chowdhury, A. (2007)

  Social Policy

  21/09/2021 — Agricultural Research, Livelihoods, and Poverty: Studies of Economic and Social Impacts in Six Countries, (eds) Adato, M. and Meinzen-Dick, R., Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore

• An Integrated Economic and Social Analysis to Assess the Impact of Vegetable and Fishpond Technologies on Poverty in Rural Bangladesh: Hallman, K., Lewis, D. and Begum, S. (2007)

  Social Policy

  21/09/2021 — Agricultural Research, Livelihoods, and Poverty: Studies of Economic and Social Impacts in Six Countries, (eds) Adato, M. and Meinzen-Dick, R., Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore

• Bringing in Society, Culture and Politics: Values and Accountability in a Bangladesh NGO: Lewis, D. (2007)

  Social Policy

  21/09/2021 — Forging Global Accountabilities: Participation, Pluralism and Public Ethics, (eds) Ebrahim, A. and Weisband, E., Cambridge University Press, CambridgeForging Global Accountabilities: Participation, Pluralism and Public Ethics, (eds) Ebrahim, A. and Weisband, E., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

• Disciplined Activists, Unruly Brokers? Exploring the Boundaries between Non-governmental Organisations, Donors and State in Bangladesh: Lewis, D. (2010) Disciplined Activists, Unruly Brokers? Exploring the Boundaries between Non-governmental Organisations, Donors and State in Bangladesh: Lewis, D. (2010)

  Social Policy

  21/09/2021 — Varieties of Activist Experience: Civil Society in South Asia, (ed.) Gellner, D., Sage Publications, New Delhi

• Non-governmental Organisations and Civil Society: Lewis,D. (2015) 

  Social Policy

  21/09/2021 — Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Bangladesh,(eds) Riaz, A. and Rahman, M.S., Routledge, Londonv

• Akhtar Hameed Khan (1914-1999): Lewis, D. (2019)

  Social Policy

  21/09/2021 — Key Thinkers on Development (2nd edn), ed. David, S., Routledge, London

• The Offstage Miracle: Carrying Out and Writing Up Field Research in Bangladesh: Lewis, D. (1991)

  Social Policy

  21/09/2021 — Journal of Social Studies

• Indigenising Extension: Farmers, Fish-seed Traders and Poverty-focused Aquaculture in Bangladesh: Lewis, D. (1993)

  Social Policy

  21/09/2021 — Development Policy Review

• Appropriating Technology? Tractor Owners, Brokers, Artisans and Farmers in Rural Bangladesh: Lewis, D. (1996)

  Social Policy

  21/09/2021 — Journal of International Development

• Understanding Rural Entrepreneurship in a Bangladesh Village: Individuals, Roles and Structures?: Lewis, D. (1996)

  Social Policy

  21/09/2021 — Small Enterprise Development

• Rethinking Aquaculture for Resource-Poor Farmers: Perspectives from Bangladesh: Lewis, D. (1997)

  Social Policy

  21/09/2021 — Food Policy

• Practice, Power and Meaning: Frameworks for Studying Organisational Culture in Multi-Agency Rural Development Projects: Lewis, D. et al. (2002) 

  Social Policy

  21/09/2021 — International Working Paper Series #12, Centre for Civil Society, London School of Economics and Political Science

• Routes of Funding, Roots of Trust? Northern NGOs, Southern NGOs, Donors, and the Rise of Direct Funding: Lewis, D. and Sobhan, B. (1999)

  Social Policy

  21/09/2021 — Development in Practice

• On the Difficulty of Studying “Civil Society”: NGOs, State and Democracy in Bangladesh: Lewis, D. (2004)

  Social Policy

  21/09/2021 — Contributions to Indian Sociology

• The Strength of Weak Ideas? Human Security, Policy History and Climate Change in Bangladesh: Lewis, D. (2010)

  Social Policy

  21/09/2021 — Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis

• Patterns of Rural Mechanisation, Energy and Employment in South Asia: Reopening the Debate: Biggs, S., Justice, S. and D. Lewis, (2011)

  Social Policy

  21/09/2021 — Economic and Political Weekly

• Exchanges of Professionals between the Public and Non-Governmental Sectors: Life-work Histories from Bangladesh: Lewis, D. (2011)

  Social Policy

  21/09/2021 — Modern Asian Studies

• Livelihood Resilience in the Face of Climate Change: Tanner, T., Lewis, D., Wrathall, D, and Bronen, R. et al. (2015)

  Social Policy

  21/09/2021 — Nature Climate Change

• Peopling Policy Processes? Methodological Populism in the Bangladesh Health and Education Sectors: Lewis, D. (2018)

  Social Policy

  21/09/2021 — World Development

• Humanitarianism, Civil Society and the Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Bangladesh: Lewis, D. (2019)

  Social Policy

  21/09/2021 — Third World Quarterly

• Local Political Consolidation in Bangladesh: Power, Informality and Patronage: Lewis, D. and Hossain, A. (2019)

  Social Policy

  21/09/2021 — Development & Change

• Rethinking the Bangladesh State: Lewis, D. and van Schendel, W. (2020)

  Social Policy

  21/09/2021 — Contributions to Indian Sociology

• Technologies and Transactions: A Study of the Interaction between New Technology and Agrarian Structure in Bangladesh: Lewis, D. (1991)

  Social Policy

  21/09/2021 — Centre for Social Studies, University of Dhaka

• Revisiting the Local Power Structure in Bangladesh: Economic Gain, Political Pain?: Lewis, D. and Hossain, A. (2017)

  Social Policy

  21/09/2021 — Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA Studies), Stockholm