Tanjil Sowgat
Biographic Data
| ID | 1448168 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tanjil Sowgat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tanjil |
| FAMILY NAME | Sowgat |
| SIGNATURE | SOWGAT T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Urban and Rural Planning Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna, Bangladesh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5674-0759 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Bibliographic Analysis of Mangrove Conservation in Southeast Asia
The mangrove ecosystems in Southeast Asia are essential for biodiversity, climate change mitigation, and coastal protection. However, these ecosystems are increasingly threatened by escalating anthropogenic pressures. This study aims to identify research trends, challenges and collaboration patterns in mangrove conservation in Southeast Asia via bibliometric techniques. A total of 572 peer-reviewed papers from 1982 to 2024 were evaluated using VO…
Place matters
Housing adequacy in Delhi, Dhaka and Karachi
Access to adequate housing is one of the major challenges in the rapidly urbanising megacities of the Indian subcontinent. This study examines variations in housing adequacy and its determinants in Delhi, Dhaka and Karachi. It investigates potential planning interventions to improve housing conditions, drawing on urban policies, programmes and insights from Demographic and Health Surveys. Findings reveal severe housing inadequacy, with four out o…
Rhizomatic poverty in aquaculture communities of rural India & Bangladesh
The paper uses illustrations from rural India and Bangladesh to develop a critical analysis of practices and experiences of poverty often overlooked in development policies. It challenges the principle measurement, calculative rationality and static representation in anti-poverty interventions that present poverty as a ‘problem’ to be resolved. It draws on poststructuralist ideas to express poverty differently and shift from problem-solving to pr…
Throwntogetherness in Dhaka
Rapid spatial growth and rural-urban migration in Dhaka have influenced the dynamic evolution of the city’s unplanned and old neighbourhoods. Despite development control and planning regulations, following the diverse needs of the residents, most neighbourhoods evolve through organic transformation and restructuring of space. This photo essay argues that the ‘throwntogetherness’ of the citizens in these neighbourhoods results from cohesion, mutua…
Neighborhood segregation in Dhaka
Dhaka’s rapid urbanization, income inequality and unplanned growth have brought this megacity to international attention. Although limited elements of ethnoreligious segregation are prevalent in the city, a general concern in the existing literature is that the city is failing to provide distributive justice to its citizens. This paper explores the current socio-spatial division of Dhaka city to understand its patterns and underlying causes. The …
Sustainability Challenges for Sprawling Dhaka
Dhaka’s sprawled area is likely to supersede the total land area of the Dhaka city in the near future. This article combines quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate sustainability concerns that have arisen because of irregular and rapid sprawling in Dhaka. Land cover change detection reveals that since 1991, the city outskirts have seen an addition of 234 square kilometres of built-up area. Spatial metrics show the dynamic process of …
City Profile
Despite numerous complex urban challenges, Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is rapidly growing in terms of both population and extent. This profile captures that unplanned and spontaneous urbanization of Dhaka, which resulted in haphazard spatial expansion and transformation. Its unstable urban primacy is the result of high concentration of administrative activities, jobs and services in this city. Results of unsustainable growth are reflected i…
Contested experiences and potential justice at the limit of the law for poor urban children in Bangladesh
This paper explores the issues of poor children's criminality, violence and transgression in the context of slums in Bangladesh. It reworks theoretical understandings of the limits that are used to identify children and their transgressive acts in the law. The paper questions the use of the term 'delinquent' children, their position and 'diversion' from crime. It exposes the contested sense of margins that are part of geographies of criminality a…
Contested experiences and potential justice at the limit of the law for poor urban children in Bangladesh
This paper explores the issues of poor children's criminality, violence and transgression in the context of slums in Bangladesh. It reworks theoretical understandings of the limits that are used to identify children and their transgressive acts in the law. The paper questions the use of the term 'delinquent' children, their position and 'diversion' from crime. It exposes the contested sense of margins that are part of geographies of criminality a…
Throwntogetherness in Dhaka
Rapid spatial growth and rural-urban migration in Dhaka have influenced the dynamic evolution of the city’s unplanned and old neighbourhoods. Despite development control and planning regulations, following the diverse needs of the residents, most neighbourhoods evolve through organic transformation and restructuring of space. This photo essay argues that the ‘throwntogetherness’ of the citizens in these neighbourhoods results from cohesion, mutua…
Rhizomatic poverty in aquaculture communities of rural India & Bangladesh
The paper uses illustrations from rural India and Bangladesh to develop a critical analysis of practices and experiences of poverty often overlooked in development policies. It challenges the principle measurement, calculative rationality and static representation in anti-poverty interventions that present poverty as a ‘problem’ to be resolved. It draws on poststructuralist ideas to express poverty differently and shift from problem-solving to pr…
City Profile
Despite numerous complex urban challenges, Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is rapidly growing in terms of both population and extent. This profile captures that unplanned and spontaneous urbanization of Dhaka, which resulted in haphazard spatial expansion and transformation. Its unstable urban primacy is the result of high concentration of administrative activities, jobs and services in this city. Results of unsustainable growth are reflected i…
Contested experiences and potential justice at the limit of the law for poor urban children in Bangladesh
This paper explores the issues of poor children's criminality, violence and transgression in the context of slums in Bangladesh. It reworks theoretical understandings of the limits that are used to identify children and their transgressive acts in the law. The paper questions the use of the term 'delinquent' children, their position and 'diversion' from crime. It exposes the contested sense of margins that are part of geographies of criminality a…
Sustainability Challenges for Sprawling Dhaka
Dhaka’s sprawled area is likely to supersede the total land area of the Dhaka city in the near future. This article combines quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate sustainability concerns that have arisen because of irregular and rapid sprawling in Dhaka. Land cover change detection reveals that since 1991, the city outskirts have seen an addition of 234 square kilometres of built-up area. Spatial metrics show the dynamic process of …
Throwntogetherness in Dhaka
Rapid spatial growth and rural-urban migration in Dhaka have influenced the dynamic evolution of the city’s unplanned and old neighbourhoods. Despite development control and planning regulations, following the diverse needs of the residents, most neighbourhoods evolve through organic transformation and restructuring of space. This photo essay argues that the ‘throwntogetherness’ of the citizens in these neighbourhoods results from cohesion, mutua…
Neighborhood segregation in Dhaka
Dhaka’s rapid urbanization, income inequality and unplanned growth have brought this megacity to international attention. Although limited elements of ethnoreligious segregation are prevalent in the city, a general concern in the existing literature is that the city is failing to provide distributive justice to its citizens. This paper explores the current socio-spatial division of Dhaka city to understand its patterns and underlying causes. The …
Rhizomatic poverty in aquaculture communities of rural India & Bangladesh
The paper uses illustrations from rural India and Bangladesh to develop a critical analysis of practices and experiences of poverty often overlooked in development policies. It challenges the principle measurement, calculative rationality and static representation in anti-poverty interventions that present poverty as a ‘problem’ to be resolved. It draws on poststructuralist ideas to express poverty differently and shift from problem-solving to pr…
Housing adequacy in Delhi, Dhaka and Karachi
Access to adequate housing is one of the major challenges in the rapidly urbanising megacities of the Indian subcontinent. This study examines variations in housing adequacy and its determinants in Delhi, Dhaka and Karachi. It investigates potential planning interventions to improve housing conditions, drawing on urban policies, programmes and insights from Demographic and Health Surveys. Findings reveal severe housing inadequacy, with four out o…
Bibliographic Analysis of Mangrove Conservation in Southeast Asia
The mangrove ecosystems in Southeast Asia are essential for biodiversity, climate change mitigation, and coastal protection. However, these ecosystems are increasingly threatened by escalating anthropogenic pressures. This study aims to identify research trends, challenges and collaboration patterns in mangrove conservation in Southeast Asia via bibliometric techniques. A total of 572 peer-reviewed papers from 1982 to 2024 were evaluated using VO…
Place matters
Economics (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (5 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Civil engineering (3 works) · Environmental planning (3 works) · Law (3 works)