Lamia Karim
Biographic Data
| ID | 113744 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lamia Karim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lamia |
| FAMILY NAME | Karim |
| SIGNATURE | KARIM L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2406-6293 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 250 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Bangladesh Garment Workers Strike
Reversal of Fortunes
In 2011, the government of Bangladesh began an investigation into the financial dealings of the Grameen Bank that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. This disciplining of a world-renowned institution and its founder by the state reconfigures the altered relationship between the state and NGOs in Bangladesh. This article investigates this about-face between the state and NGOs from the 1990s, when their relationship was characterized as 'partners in…
Disposable Bodies
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLamia KarimLamia Karim is associate professor and associate department head of anthropology at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh. Her new book project concerns the feminization of democracy in Muslim societies. She is also working on another manuscript about women in the transnational garment industry in Bangladesh
Elora Halim Chowdhury. Transnationalism Reversed
Dialectical Anthropology
This article explores the relationship between labor unions and labor precarity in Bangladesh's garment industry.After a string of high-profile factory disasters-including the 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory building-Bangladeshi labor unions have played a central role in new global initiatives to improve factory safety.These initiatives have provided an opportunity for unions to influence the governance of labor standards in a con…
Microfinance and Its Discontents
Demystifying Micro-Credit
This article is an ethnographic study of the effects of micro-credit on gender relations in rural Bangladesh. Focusing on the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh and three other leading non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the country, I analyze the role of gender in the expansion of globalization and neoliberalism in Bangladesh. The Grameen Bank has become a global symbol of poor women's empowerment and is celebrate…
Democratizing Bangladesh
This article analyzes the conflicts and contradictions released by the processes of democratization and globalization in Bangladesh as they are played out between two competing groups of rural patrons: the clergy and the developmental non-governmental organizations. Both groups vie for rural dominance by fighting over the role of women in society. By investigating the violent circumstances surrounding a poor women's rally in 1998, I examine how, …
Politics of the Poor? NGOs and Grass-roots Political Mobilization in Bangladesh
Introduction Privatizing the State
Pushed to the margins
This article examines how, in rhetoric and practice, the post‐colonial politics of Bangladesh have come together in intricate and problematic ways that render the Adivasi invisible in society, and how this state‐sponsored narrative has become the regulatory mechanism for keeping the Adivasi at the margin of the state. It analyses the problematics of being an Adivasi in a nation‐state that reifies itself as Bengali and Muslim with reference to the…
Dialectical Anthropology
This article explores the relationship between labor unions and labor precarity in Bangladesh's garment industry.After a string of high-profile factory disasters-including the 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory building-Bangladeshi labor unions have played a central role in new global initiatives to improve factory safety.These initiatives have provided an opportunity for unions to influence the governance of labor standards in a con…
Demystifying Micro-Credit
This article is an ethnographic study of the effects of micro-credit on gender relations in rural Bangladesh. Focusing on the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh and three other leading non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the country, I analyze the role of gender in the expansion of globalization and neoliberalism in Bangladesh. The Grameen Bank has become a global symbol of poor women's empowerment and is celebrate…
Introduction Privatizing the State
Politics of the Poor? NGOs and Grass-roots Political Mobilization in Bangladesh
Democratizing Bangladesh
This article analyzes the conflicts and contradictions released by the processes of democratization and globalization in Bangladesh as they are played out between two competing groups of rural patrons: the clergy and the developmental non-governmental organizations. Both groups vie for rural dominance by fighting over the role of women in society. By investigating the violent circumstances surrounding a poor women's rally in 1998, I examine how, …
Disposable Bodies
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLamia KarimLamia Karim is associate professor and associate department head of anthropology at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh. Her new book project concerns the feminization of democracy in Muslim societies. She is also working on another manuscript about women in the transnational garment industry in Bangladesh
Pushed to the margins
This article examines how, in rhetoric and practice, the post‐colonial politics of Bangladesh have come together in intricate and problematic ways that render the Adivasi invisible in society, and how this state‐sponsored narrative has become the regulatory mechanism for keeping the Adivasi at the margin of the state. It analyses the problematics of being an Adivasi in a nation‐state that reifies itself as Bengali and Muslim with reference to the…
Pushed to the margins
This article examines how, in rhetoric and practice, the post‐colonial politics of Bangladesh have come together in intricate and problematic ways that render the Adivasi invisible in society, and how this state‐sponsored narrative has become the regulatory mechanism for keeping the Adivasi at the margin of the state. It analyses the problematics of being an Adivasi in a nation‐state that reifies itself as Bengali and Muslim with reference to the…
Politics of the Poor? NGOs and Grass-roots Political Mobilization in Bangladesh
Introduction Privatizing the State
Democratizing Bangladesh
This article analyzes the conflicts and contradictions released by the processes of democratization and globalization in Bangladesh as they are played out between two competing groups of rural patrons: the clergy and the developmental non-governmental organizations. Both groups vie for rural dominance by fighting over the role of women in society. By investigating the violent circumstances surrounding a poor women's rally in 1998, I examine how, …
Demystifying Micro-Credit
This article is an ethnographic study of the effects of micro-credit on gender relations in rural Bangladesh. Focusing on the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh and three other leading non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the country, I analyze the role of gender in the expansion of globalization and neoliberalism in Bangladesh. The Grameen Bank has become a global symbol of poor women's empowerment and is celebrate…
Microfinance and Its Discontents
Elora Halim Chowdhury. Transnationalism Reversed
Dialectical Anthropology
This article explores the relationship between labor unions and labor precarity in Bangladesh's garment industry.After a string of high-profile factory disasters-including the 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory building-Bangladeshi labor unions have played a central role in new global initiatives to improve factory safety.These initiatives have provided an opportunity for unions to influence the governance of labor standards in a con…
Disposable Bodies
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLamia KarimLamia Karim is associate professor and associate department head of anthropology at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh. Her new book project concerns the feminization of democracy in Muslim societies. She is also working on another manuscript about women in the transnational garment industry in Bangladesh
Reversal of Fortunes
In 2011, the government of Bangladesh began an investigation into the financial dealings of the Grameen Bank that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. This disciplining of a world-renowned institution and its founder by the state reconfigures the altered relationship between the state and NGOs in Bangladesh. This article investigates this about-face between the state and NGOs from the 1990s, when their relationship was characterized as 'partners in…
Bangladesh Garment Workers Strike
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Development economics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)