Bangladesh

Understanding special educational needs

by Sardar Anwaruddin

BCS examination: An afterthought

by Sardar Anwaruddin

Appropriate curriculum for pre-primary education

by Sardar Anwaruddin

Birangana or muktijoddha?

by Sardar Anwaruddin

Last wake-up call

by Sardar Anwaruddin

Teacher evaluation by students

by Sardar Anwaruddin

Uni-track education

by Sardar Anwaruddin

Crang, M. (2012). Tristes Entropique: steel, ships and time images for late modernity Visuality/Materiality: Images, Objects and Practices. G. Rose and D. Tolia-Kelly. Farnham, Ashgate: 59-74.

by Michael Crang

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There is a long history of thinking about materiality and temporality through flux and flow. The question then is how... more There is a long history of thinking about materiality and temporality through flux and flow. The question then is how do we envision such incessant movement? Michel Serres derives this sort of materiality from the physics of Lucretius that sees the apparent stability of the world as an illusion caused by the turbidity of incessant flows, as the flow becomes turbulent it leads to 'vortices in which the atoms combine to form a quasi-stable order’ forming a world out of the myriad combinations of atoms arising from chance encounters so we need to set ‘aside the principles and habits of thinking in terms of solids and treats atoms as the condition for a theory of flow’ (Webb, 2006: 127).

The world is constantly in flow, just some of it at a very slow rate, and full then of nonorganic life as De Landa (1992) argued. Such an approach highlights not things moving through empty space, but the world as becoming-things.

The focus of this essay is though a negative becoming, or a sense of productivity that includes failure, disassembly and destruction. Following the acknowledgement of the crystalline internal irregularities of steel sees them leading to failures as well as strengths, where imperfections in crystalline structures produce both sharpness and brittleness (de Landa, 2008). Rust, breakdown and destruction are immanent propensities of, not exceptions to, the normal state.

Here then we come to the link of the flow and event of things and the moment of visualization – how does that event in its brief happening and lingering image link to the slow happening of inorganic life? It may be worth connecting that slow happening to the notions of entropy – that matter heads towards increasing levels of disorganization – that is, it is things are generally unbecoming.

A Survey of Public Relations Practice in Bangladesh

by Imtiaz Chowdhury

Co-authored with: Jude W. Genilo & Marium Akhter. Published in Media Asia, Volume 38, No. 4. (2011).

From being solely undertaken by the government sector in the 1970s to 1980s, the public relations profession has made... more From being solely undertaken by the government sector in the 1970s to 1980s, the public relations profession has made inroads in the non-government and private sectors in the 1990s and 2000s. The authors, in light of this, conducted a survey to obtain a general picture of public relations practice in Bangladesh in terms of its administrative structure, staff qualifications, functions and services, communication channel usage, researches conducted and current industry trends.

Silk Industries of Bangladesh: Problems and Possibilities

by Asif Ishtiaque

Published in 'Human Resource Management Academic Research Society Directory of Business Case Studies e.Publications, July (2011), Vol. 1, Issue 1'.

Protecting Human Rights: The Role of NGOs in Bangladesh

by Saber Chowdhury

Conference Paper: Rawalpindi, Pakistan (March 29-31, 2012) “Protecting Human Rights: The Role of NGOs in Bangladesh”, a paper presented in the “International Conference on Implementing Human Rights (ICIHR 2012): A Way Forward”, organized by Dept. of Gender Studies, Fatima Jinnah Women University.

Since the late 1970s, NGOs are playing prominent roles in the nation’s development process of Bangladesh. But the NGOs... more Since the late 1970s, NGOs are playing prominent roles in the nation’s development process of Bangladesh. But the NGOs particularly dealing with human rights in Bangladesh have proliferated dramatically specially in the last decade. The NGO sector in Bangladesh which is highly organized and relatively homogeneous has mostly led by donor enthusiasm and many of them not at all motivated by altruism. However, the escalation of human rights advocacy in Bangladesh is the cause of the gradual emergence of powerful and effective NGOs. In this article, two questions will be answered regarding the role of NGOs in promoting human rights in Bangladesh; one is normative - what NGOs do? And the other is operational - How NGOs do? The growth of NGOs, including women rights activists, environmental protesters, researchers, and the media, has immensely helped to raise awareness about the impact of economic disparity, social repression, and environmental exploitation on human beings. In Bangladesh, NGOs are working as a pressure group on the government to formulate and employ human rights related legislation. But their effort is not beyond criticisms. It is a general predisposition of the NGOs of Bangladesh to shift their working priorities, ignoring the local demands according to donor’s hope. So most of the NGOs are trying to deliver their performances to attract donor fund and are functioning in accordance to donor’s guideline to uphold human rights in the country.

My Mobile Weighs a Ton

by Naeem Mohaiemen

Published in DataBrowser journal. Published in DataBrowser journal.

Dead Reckoning: a) Bose response to Mohaiemen; b) Mohaiemen response to Bose

by Naeem Mohaiemen

Economic & Political Weekly EPW December 31, 2011 vol xlvi no 53

Sarmila Bose takes issue with the criticisms levelled against her book Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh... more Sarmila Bose takes issue with the criticisms levelled against her book Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War in the article by Naeem Mohaiemen (EPW, 3 September 2011). A rejoinder to her response by Mohaiemen follows.

Bengali in Italia - lemmario dell'uso

by CAROLA ERIKA LOREA

published on ITALS, didattica e linguistica dell'italiano come lingua straniera - n, IX, 27-2011

The following essay describes the various steps and results of the re-search that I conducted among the Bangladeshi... more The following essay describes the various steps and results of the re-search that I conducted among the Bangladeshi immigrants living in Rome. The research is aimed at the creation of a wordlist to compile an essential bengali-italian dictionary for the linguistic needs of bengali speakers in Italy. Here I will present the method of lexical selection – suitable for any immigration language - that led to the final wordlist of 3500 words divided into semantic fields. In the second section, the lexical selection made by the Bengali interviewees is interpreted in a sociolinguistic and cultural perspective. The vocabulary that bengali speakers have suggested as more useful for their communication in the country of immigration differs consistently from the one comprehended in the bengali-italian and bengali-english dictionaries written so far. It also reflects some peculiar elements of the cultural and emotional life of the Bangladeshi community in Italy, that will be described in the final section of this work.

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON WATER RELATED SECTORS OF DHAKA CITY AND ASSESSING THE PLAUSIBLE ADAPTATION OPTIONS

by Bushra Monowar

Published in the 2nd International Conference on Environmental Technology and Construction Engineering for Sustainable Development (ICETCESD 2012) in SUST (Shahjalal University of Science and Technology)

CHANGING CLIMATE AND SURFACE & GROUND WATER RELATED ISSUES IN DHAKA

by Bushra Monowar

Published in International Conference on Civil Engineering for Sustainable Development (ICCESD-2012) to be held in March, 2012, in Khulna University of Engineering & Technology, KUET

Potential of water footprint assessment as a decision support tool for sustainable water allocation option in Dhaka city

by Bushra Monowar

Published in 4th Annual Paper meet of IEB (Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh), Bangladesh

Changes Observed in the Historical Trend of Local Rainfall as a Climatic Factor and its Effect on the Streamflow of the Turag and Buriganga River System

by Bushra Monowar

Bushra Monowar Duti, Fariba Halim Aurin, Dr. M. Mujibur Rahman

Keywords: Climate Change, Turag and Buriganga river system, Dhaka city, Changes in Rainfall
Pattern, Historical... more Keywords: Climate Change, Turag and Buriganga river system, Dhaka city, Changes in Rainfall
Pattern, Historical Trend, Streamflow pattern, Water level and Discharge

Floods and Humanitarian Aid in Bangladesh

by Azhar Sario

Floods and Humanitarian Aid in Bangladesh

Floods and Humanitarian Aid in Bangladesh Floods and Humanitarian Aid in Bangladesh

Resilience in Practice

by Susan Upton

Co-authored with Maggie Ibrahim

Practical Action has produced a briefing paper called ‘Resilience in Practice’, which explains just how resilience is... more Practical Action has produced a briefing paper called ‘Resilience in Practice’, which explains just how resilience is being built into projects. The paper is made up of six case studies of projects in Peru, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sudan and Kenya that illustrate Practical Action’s work in building resilience into its programmes. They provide an evidence base for how Practical Action is turning resilience into practice and for including processes and resources that are essential for supporting learning, adaptation and experimentation.

The case studies reinforce the need for organisations to be proactive in reaching out to build partnerships and alliances with people and organisations operating outside of their specialist intervention areas. This means they also require an investment and challenge traditional way of working.

The briefing paper highlights that there are still a range of challenges that need to be overcome and that there are areas that need further research. The challenges include a lack of relevant climate data, appropriate tools and incentives in organisations to support integration of sectors, a lack of scenario planning methods and clear indicators of resilience on which to base planning, monitoring and evaluations.