Mohammed Rahmatullah
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 160116 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mohammed Rahmatullah |
| NOMBRES | Mohammed |
| APELLIDO | Rahmatullah |
| FIRMA | RAHMATULLAH M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Development Alternative |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1395-8640 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Acceptable English, Vanishing Voice
This commentary examines the growing normalisation of AI-polished academic English in South-North scholarly publishing. While generative AI may help multilingual scholars manage linguistic barriers, its uncritical use risks producing a standardised academic style that erases situated voice, local idiom, intellectual hesitation and interpretive risk. The problem, therefore, is not simply whether AI has been used, but how its use reshapes authorshi…
Narrative Disruption and the Reimagining of African Identity in Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death
This paper critically examines Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death through the narratological framework of Gérard Genette, arguing that the novel’s autodiegetic narration, scriptural framing device, patterned analepses and prolepses, and shifts in focalisation collectively produce a formally innovative narrative design that disrupts traditional storytelling to reimagine African identities within a speculative fiction context. By employing a marked n…
Imagining Power in Reverse
Shadows of conflict
War fractures identity and ethics, a dual crisis sharply staged in Liam O'Flaherty's The Sniper (1923). This article develops a dialectical framework contrasting Freudian and Lacanian readings of the protagonist's psyche under fire. It juxtaposes Freud's repression and death drive with Lacan's gaze and the Real to trace the destabilization of self and other across key scenes: rooftop detachment, the kill shot, the enemy's fall, and final recognit…
Tidal ethics and planetary mourning
This article argues that Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide develops a model of tidal ethics for psychoanalytic work with eco-grief: a practice of timed pauses, fragile but adequate holding, and post-catastrophic re-containment. Rather than applying psychoanalysis to the novel as an external grid, the essay uses Ghosh’s tidal narrative to rethink Bionian caesura, alpha-function, and catastrophic change alongside Winnicottian holding and transitional …
Visa flesh
This article offers a postphenomenological reading of South Asian labour migration to the Gulf through Deepak Unnikrishnan’s Temporary People. I argue that the novel theorises what I call visa flesh: a condition in which the migrant body is made legible, governable, and exploitable through the infrastructures of kafala – ID systems, camp routines, worksite technologies, transport, and digital communication. Bringing postphenomenology into dialogu…
Decolonizing Degrowth
The global renewable transition is widely celebrated as a solution to the climate crisis, yet many “green” projects reproduce imperial and patriarchal structures of domination. This article argues that climate futures cannot be secured within capitalist frameworks of growth and accumulation, which externalize ecological costs to the Global South while marginalizing Indigenous and feminist knowledges. Drawing on ecosocialist and degrowth theory, a…
When “Transparency” Becomes Surveillance
Digital coercive control has become a routine infrastructure of intimate partner domination, yet it is still easily misrecognized in couple and family therapy as a solvable problem of trust, jealousy, or mutually negotiated transparency. Using a feminist family therapy lens, this article argues that technology-facilitated tactics – tracking, credential capture, device administration, impersonation, and reputation manipulation – should be assessed…
Voices from an Enclosed Commons
Ecofeminism, e-waste, and ethnic precarity in Asian postcyberpunk
This article reads Chen Qiufan’s through Val Plumwood’s critique of dualism to show how ecological degradation, gendered violence, and ethnicized precarity converge in the novel’s postcyberpunk world. Rather than treating e-waste as mere setting, the novel turns toxic infrastructure into a social grammar that determines whose labor is expendable, whose life counts, and whose habitat may be sacrificed. Plumwood helps clarify the novel’s hierarchie…
Breaking the Wall
Decolonizing nature on screen
African eco-documentary films have become key sites where environmental crisis and cultural identity are negotiated together rather than separately. This article argues that such films are not merely descriptive records of ecological fragility but decolonial interventions that challenge Western environmental determinism, foreground justice, and affirm indigenous cosmologies. Drawing on postcolonial ecocriticism, African ecomedia studies, and envi…
Affective architectures of protest
Interconnected identities and environmental justice in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon
This paper offers a critical analysis of Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon through the lens of Jane Bennett’s vibrant materialism, examining how the novel reimagines concepts of identity, agency, and environmental justice within an Afrofuturist framework. By applying Bennett’s theories on assemblages, non-human agency, and the permeability of boundaries between entities, this research explores how the novel challenges traditional anthropocentric narratives…
Bodies of Water, Archives of Trauma
Oratory as Political Theatre
This paper examines the performative dimensions of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's seminal March 7, 1971, speech through the lenses of Erving Goffman’s dramaturgical analysis and Richard Schechner’s performance theory. By deconstructing the speech’s gestural rhetoric, vocal dynamics, and audience engagement, this study elucidates how Bangabandhu's oratory transcended mere political discourse to become a potent act of political theatre. The an…
Experiences and challenges of African traditional medicine
Management of COVID-19 in Africa is challenging due to limited resources, including the high cost of vaccines, diagnostics, medical devices and routine pharmaceuticals. These challenges, in addition to wide acceptability, have resulted in increased use of herbal medicines based on African traditional medicines (ATMs) by patients in Africa. This is in spite of the often-significant gaps in evidence regarding these traditional medicines as to their…
Disrupting the Binary
This research paper embarks on a comprehensive exploration of the complex interplay between gender biases and Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms, framed through the lens of cybernetic feminism. Drawing on a rich body of interdisciplinary literature, the paper critically examines how biases are not mere reflections of existing societal norms but are intricately woven into the very architecture of algorithms. The paper delves into various sect…
The Intricate Bonds of Sylvia Plath’s Poetry
Voice for the Oppressed
Subalterns, the palpable fuel of society’s power structure, are always marginalized by the tormentors from the corridors of power. The oppressors use their life force to make them oppressed. One of the main tasks of literature is to reveal the truth of society. Kazi Nazrul Islam and Faiz Ahmed Faiz, two prominent revolutionary poets in the Indian subcontinent, spoke on behalf of the masses but in two different languages (Bengali and Urdu). Their …
Ethnomedicinal survey of various communities residing in Garo Hills of Durgapur, Bangladesh
Present investigation revealed a rich traditional practice in the studied region, which provides primary health care to the local community. This compilation of the ethnobotanical knowledge can help researchers to identify the uses of various medicinal plants that have a long history of use
A survey of medicinal plants used by the Deb barma clan of the Tripura tribe of Moulvibazar district, Bangladesh
Background The number of tribes present within Bangladesh has been estimated to approximate one hundred and fifty. Information on traditional medicinal practices, particularly of the smaller tribes and their clans is lacking. It was the objective of the study to document the tribal medicinal practices of the Deb barma clan of the Tripura tribe, which clan can be found residing in Dolusora Tripura Palli of Moulvibazar district of Bangladesh. A fur…
Medicinal formulations of a Kanda tribal healer – a tribe on the verge of disappearance in Bangladesh
The Kanda tribe is one of the lesser known small tribes of Bangladesh with an estimated population of about 1700 people (according to them), and on the verge of extinction as a separate entity. To some extent, they have assimilated with the surrounding mainstream Bengali-speaking population, but they still maintain their cultural practices including traditional medicinal practices, for which they have their own tribal healers. Nothing at all has …
Antihyperglycemic and antinociceptive activity evaluation of ‘Khoyer’ prepared from boiling the wood of Acacia catechu in water
'Khoyer' is prepared by boiling the wood of Acacia catechu in water and then evaporating the resultant brew. The resultant hard material is powdered and chewed with betel leaves and lime with or without tobacco by a large number of the people of Bangladesh as an addictive psycho-stimulating and euphoria-inducing formulation. There are folk medicinal claims that khoyer helps in the relief of pain and is also useful to diabetic patients to maintain…
Antihyperglycemic and antinociceptive activity evaluation of methanolic extract of whole plant of Amaranthus Tricolor L. (Amaranthaceae)
Amaranthus tricolor whole plants are used by folk medicinal practitioners of Bangladesh for treatment of pain, anaemia, dysentery, skin diseases, diabetes, and as a blood purifier. Thus far, no scientific studies have evaluated the antihyperglycaemic and antinociceptive effects of the plant. The present study was carried out to evaluate the possible glucose tolerance efficacy of methanolic extracts of A. tricolour whole plants using glucose-induc…
Ethnomedicinal survey of various communities residing in Garo Hills of Durgapur, Bangladesh
Present investigation revealed a rich traditional practice in the studied region, which provides primary health care to the local community. This compilation of the ethnobotanical knowledge can help researchers to identify the uses of various medicinal plants that have a long history of use
A Comparative Analysis of Medicinal Plants Used by Folk Medicinal Healers in Three Districts of Bangladesh and Inquiry as to Mode of Selection of Medicinal Plants
An ethnomedicinal survey conducted in two sub-districts (upazillas) each of three districts of Bangladesh revealed that there is both inter- and intra-district variation between the choices of medicinal plants selected by folk medicinal healers (kavirajes) to treat any specific ailment. The variations cannot be accounted for by differences in climate or plant availability for most of the plants used by the kavirajes are available in all six upazi…
A survey of medicinal plants used by the Deb barma clan of the Tripura tribe of Moulvibazar district, Bangladesh
Background The number of tribes present within Bangladesh has been estimated to approximate one hundred and fifty. Information on traditional medicinal practices, particularly of the smaller tribes and their clans is lacking. It was the objective of the study to document the tribal medicinal practices of the Deb barma clan of the Tripura tribe, which clan can be found residing in Dolusora Tripura Palli of Moulvibazar district of Bangladesh. A fur…
Traditional use of medicinal plants in Bangladesh to treat urinary tract infections and sexually transmitted diseases
The rural population of Bangladesh has traditionally depended on folk medicinal healers for cure of their ailments. These healers use medicinal plants as their primary source of medicinal formulations. Rural patients are more dependent on traditional or folk medicinal healers for cure of urinary tract infections (UTI) and sexually transmitted diseases (STD) for a number of reasons including lack of access to modern medical facilities, clinging to…
A survey of medicinal plants used by kavirajes of chalna area, Khulna district, Bangladesh
Kavirajes or traditional medicinal practitioners form the primary healthcare providers of the predominantly rural population of Bangladesh. Kavirajes use a variety of medicinal plants for treatment of different ailments. The formulations prepared from medicinal plants vary considerably between Kavirajes of different regions of the country. The objective of this study was to conduct an ethnomedicinal survey amongst the Kavirajes of Chalna area, Kh…
Effect Of Delonix Regia Leaf Extract On Glucose Tolerance In Glucoseinduced Hyperglycemic Mice
Delonix regia (Fabaceae) leaf is used in folk medicine of Bangladesh for the treatment of diabetes, but so far no scientific study has been done which may support its use in traditional medicine. The present study was carried out to evaluate the possible glucose tolerance efficacy of methanolic extract of Delonix regia leaf using glucose-induced hyperglycemic mice. The extract at different doses was administered one hr prior to glucose administra…
Effect of cuscuta reflexa stem and calotropis procera leaf extracts on glucose tolerance in glucose-induced hyperglycemic rats and mice
Cuscuta reflexa (whole plant) and Calotropis procera (leaves) are used in folk medicine of Bangladesh to control blood sugar in patients suffering from diabetes mellitus. The hypoglycemic effects of methanol and chloroform extracts of whole plants of Cuscuta reflexa, and methanol extract of leaves of Calotropis procera were investigated in oral glucose tolerance tests in Long Evans rats and Swiss albino mice, respectively. Both methanol and chlor…
Traditional use of medicinal plants in Bangladesh to treat urinary tract infections and sexually transmitted diseases
The rural population of Bangladesh has traditionally depended on folk medicinal healers for cure of their ailments. These healers use medicinal plants as their primary source of medicinal formulations. Rural patients are more dependent on traditional or folk medicinal healers for cure of urinary tract infections (UTI) and sexually transmitted diseases (STD) for a number of reasons including lack of access to modern medical facilities, clinging to…
A Comparative Analysis of Medicinal Plants Used by Folk Medicinal Healers in Three Districts of Bangladesh and Inquiry as to Mode of Selection of Medicinal Plants
An ethnomedicinal survey conducted in two sub-districts (upazillas) each of three districts of Bangladesh revealed that there is both inter- and intra-district variation between the choices of medicinal plants selected by folk medicinal healers (kavirajes) to treat any specific ailment. The variations cannot be accounted for by differences in climate or plant availability for most of the plants used by the kavirajes are available in all six upazi…
Folk Medicinal Uses of Verbenaceae Family Plants in Bangladesh
Folk medicinal practitioners form the first tier of primary health-care providers to most of the rural population of Bangladesh. They are known locally as Kavirajes and rely almost solely on oral or topical administration of whole plants or plant parts for treatment of various ailments. Also about 2% of the total population of Bangladesh are scattered among more than twenty tribes residing within the country's borders. The various tribes have the…
Medicinal plants used for treatment of diabetes by the marakh sect of the Garo tribe living in Mymensingh district, Bangladesh
Diabetes mellitus is an endocrinological disorder arising from insulin deficiency or due to ineffectiveness of the insulin produced by the body. This results in high blood glucose and with time, to neurological, cardiovascular, retinal and renal complications. It is a debilitating disease and affects the population of every country of the world. Around 200 million people of the world suffer from this disease and this figure is projected to rise t…
Antihyperglycemic Activities of Leaves of Three Edible Fruit Plants ( Averrhoa carambola, Ficus hispida and Syzygium samarangense ) of Bangladesh
Averrhoa carambola L. (Oxalidaceae), Ficus hispida L.f. (Moraceae), and Syzygium samarangense (Blume) Merr. & L.M. Perry (Myrtaceae) are three common plants in Bangladesh, the fruits of which are edible. The leaves and fruits of A. carambola and F. hispida are used by folk medicinal practitioners for treatment of diabetes, while the leaves of S. samarangense are used for treatment of cold, itches, and waist pain. Since scientific studies are abse…
Survey and scientific evaluation of medicinal plants used by the Pahan and Teli tribal communities of Natore district, Bangladesh
The Pahans and the Telis are two of the smallest indigenous communities in Bangladesh. The Pahans, numbering about 14,000 people are widely scattered in several northern districts of the country, while the Telis are such a small community that nothing has been reported on their numbers and lifestyle. Both tribes are on the verge of disappearance. One each of the Pahan and the Teli community was located after much search in two adjoining villages …
Medicinal plants and formulations used by the Soren clan of the Santal Tribe in Rajshahi district, Bangladesh for treatment of various ailments
The Santals form the largest tribal community in northern Bangladesh reside primarily in Rajshahi and Rangpur Divisions, where they live in the districts of Rajshahi, Rangpur, Thakurgaon, Dinajpur, and Panchagarh. Although they are fast losing their traditional medicinal practices, they still have their own medicinal practitioners who rely mostly on medicinal plants for treatment of a variety of ailments. The traditional medicinal practices vary …
Tribal Formulations for Treatment of Pain
The Bedes form one of the largest tribal or indigenous communities in Bangladesh and are popularly known as the boat people or water gypsies because of their preference for living in boats. They travel almost throughout the whole year by boats on the numerous waterways of Bangladesh and earn their livelihood by selling sundry items, performing jugglery acts, catching snakes, and treating village people by the various riversides with their traditi…
Medicinal formulations of a Kanda tribal healer – a tribe on the verge of disappearance in Bangladesh
The Kanda tribe is one of the lesser known small tribes of Bangladesh with an estimated population of about 1700 people (according to them), and on the verge of extinction as a separate entity. To some extent, they have assimilated with the surrounding mainstream Bengali-speaking population, but they still maintain their cultural practices including traditional medicinal practices, for which they have their own tribal healers. Nothing at all has …
Antihyperglycemic and antinociceptive activity evaluation of ‘Khoyer’ prepared from boiling the wood of Acacia catechu in water
'Khoyer' is prepared by boiling the wood of Acacia catechu in water and then evaporating the resultant brew. The resultant hard material is powdered and chewed with betel leaves and lime with or without tobacco by a large number of the people of Bangladesh as an addictive psycho-stimulating and euphoria-inducing formulation. There are folk medicinal claims that khoyer helps in the relief of pain and is also useful to diabetic patients to maintain…
Antihyperglycemic and antinociceptive activity evaluation of methanolic extract of whole plant of Amaranthus Tricolor L. (Amaranthaceae)
Amaranthus tricolor whole plants are used by folk medicinal practitioners of Bangladesh for treatment of pain, anaemia, dysentery, skin diseases, diabetes, and as a blood purifier. Thus far, no scientific studies have evaluated the antihyperglycaemic and antinociceptive effects of the plant. The present study was carried out to evaluate the possible glucose tolerance efficacy of methanolic extracts of A. tricolour whole plants using glucose-induc…
A survey of medicinal plants used by the Deb barma clan of the Tripura tribe of Moulvibazar district, Bangladesh
Background The number of tribes present within Bangladesh has been estimated to approximate one hundred and fifty. Information on traditional medicinal practices, particularly of the smaller tribes and their clans is lacking. It was the objective of the study to document the tribal medicinal practices of the Deb barma clan of the Tripura tribe, which clan can be found residing in Dolusora Tripura Palli of Moulvibazar district of Bangladesh. A fur…
Ethnomedicinal survey of various communities residing in Garo Hills of Durgapur, Bangladesh
Present investigation revealed a rich traditional practice in the studied region, which provides primary health care to the local community. This compilation of the ethnobotanical knowledge can help researchers to identify the uses of various medicinal plants that have a long history of use
Voice for the Oppressed
Subalterns, the palpable fuel of society’s power structure, are always marginalized by the tormentors from the corridors of power. The oppressors use their life force to make them oppressed. One of the main tasks of literature is to reveal the truth of society. Kazi Nazrul Islam and Faiz Ahmed Faiz, two prominent revolutionary poets in the Indian subcontinent, spoke on behalf of the masses but in two different languages (Bengali and Urdu). Their …
Experiences and challenges of African traditional medicine
Management of COVID-19 in Africa is challenging due to limited resources, including the high cost of vaccines, diagnostics, medical devices and routine pharmaceuticals. These challenges, in addition to wide acceptability, have resulted in increased use of herbal medicines based on African traditional medicines (ATMs) by patients in Africa. This is in spite of the often-significant gaps in evidence regarding these traditional medicines as to their…
Disrupting the Binary
This research paper embarks on a comprehensive exploration of the complex interplay between gender biases and Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms, framed through the lens of cybernetic feminism. Drawing on a rich body of interdisciplinary literature, the paper critically examines how biases are not mere reflections of existing societal norms but are intricately woven into the very architecture of algorithms. The paper delves into various sect…
The Intricate Bonds of Sylvia Plath’s Poetry
Oratory as Political Theatre
This paper examines the performative dimensions of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's seminal March 7, 1971, speech through the lenses of Erving Goffman’s dramaturgical analysis and Richard Schechner’s performance theory. By deconstructing the speech’s gestural rhetoric, vocal dynamics, and audience engagement, this study elucidates how Bangabandhu's oratory transcended mere political discourse to become a potent act of political theatre. The an…
Affective architectures of protest
Interconnected identities and environmental justice in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon
This paper offers a critical analysis of Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon through the lens of Jane Bennett’s vibrant materialism, examining how the novel reimagines concepts of identity, agency, and environmental justice within an Afrofuturist framework. By applying Bennett’s theories on assemblages, non-human agency, and the permeability of boundaries between entities, this research explores how the novel challenges traditional anthropocentric narratives…
Bodies of Water, Archives of Trauma
Acceptable English, Vanishing Voice
This commentary examines the growing normalisation of AI-polished academic English in South-North scholarly publishing. While generative AI may help multilingual scholars manage linguistic barriers, its uncritical use risks producing a standardised academic style that erases situated voice, local idiom, intellectual hesitation and interpretive risk. The problem, therefore, is not simply whether AI has been used, but how its use reshapes authorshi…
Medicine (17 obras) · Traditional medicine (17 obras) · Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies (11 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Biology (9 obras) · Medicinal plants (9 obras) · Geography (7 obras) · Narrative (7 obras) · Diabetes mellitus (6 obras) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (6 obras)