M Alam
Biographic Data
| ID | 35356 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Alam |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Alam |
| SIGNATURE | ALAM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universiti Brunei Darussalam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7585-7568 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Longing for home: Conversations about the homeland from Pakistanis in Brunei Darussalam
Purpose The paper aims to analyse the motives and significance of conversations amongst overseas Pakistanis in Brunei about their homeland. These conversations involve topics around politics, religion and entertainment, reflecting the sense of belonging and connection they maintain with Pakistan whilst living abroad. Design/methodology/approach This study employed a qualitative research approach, using open-ended interviews to gather narratives f…
Negotiating Ethnic and Religious Identities: Indonesian Chinese Muslims in Sharīʿah Compliant Business
This research is focused on how Indonesian Chinese Muslim entrepreneurs in Jakarta and Surabaya negotiated dual identity through sharīʿah compliant business practices. In addition, the integration of confucian ethical values with Islamic principles to form innovative and ethical business models that resonated in Indonesian Muslim-majority society, was explored. Drawing on empirical methods, including fieldwork and document analysis, the entrepren…
The social meanings of coffee consumption in Brunei: A sociological exploration
Coffee, as one of the world’s principal commodities, has long been connected with Western culture in the beverage industry. This study explores the reasons of the stated phenomenon, why it arose, the social significance and meanings of consuming coffee, and lastly, the influences of coffee culture on individuals' lifestyles through coffee consumption in Brunei. This study employed a qualitative technique, including interviews via an online confer…
Water salinity and its impact on Bangladeshi coastal areas women’s health: An urgent need for enhanced preventive measures
Linking Visual–Auditory Cues to Restoration: The Mediating Role of Perceived Biodiversity
Due to rapid urbanization over the past five decades, there has been growing interest in the role of biodiversity in supporting human well-being. While previous research highlights the role of landscape biodiversity in psychological restoration, the pathway linking visual and auditory cues to perceived biodiversity-and subsequently to restorative outcomes-remains poorly understood. This study explores how visual and auditory stimuli influence hum…
Formal management structure of informal market: A case study of Bou Bazar of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Who Let the Dog and Cat Out? The Emergence of Stray Animal Care Non-Governmental Organisations in Brunei Darussalam
Until today, the existence of stray animals remains a source of contention between the public and the authorities. Public policy seems to be elusive in regulating this phenomenon, as it presents sociocultural conundrums. While there is a continued unclarity in the government regulations, cultures, and normative values; non-government organisations emerged with autonomous resources to take care of stray animals. The present study examines the effo…
Upsurge of unnecessary caesarian section (CS) delivery in Bangladesh: A call for urgent attention
The changing piety and spirituality: A new trend of Islamic urbanism in Yogyakarta and Surakarta
The prevalence of urban spiritualism is on the rise among residents of major cities.One observable manifestation of urban spiritualism is the growing number ofdiverse social recitation gatherings. The present research looks into four distinctprofiles of assemblies that have emerged in the urban areas of Yogyakarta andSurakarta. The four assemblies comprise Muslim United and Teras Dakwah. InSurakarta, it is worth noting the presence of two promine…
Using the system of environmental-economic accounting ecosystem accounting for policy: A case study on forest ecosystems
Struggling with Digital Pandemic: Students’ Narratives about Adapting to Online Learning at Home during the Covid-19 Outbreak
With the ongoing catastrophe of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world seems to have come to a standstill. Daily living routines, work, and schools predominantly launched into a state of confusion, and people across the globe excessively find ways to cope with their experiences of this traumatic disaster. Concerning schools, the pandemic has dramatically challenged the education system with teaching and learning processes managed remotely, utilising on…
Performing Toraja rice ritual, communicating biodiversity on YouTube: A study of conservation on rice landrace
The proliferating public interest in conservation can be explored by monitoring what people say and what people do on social media platforms. YouTube is one of the resources for digital conservation studies as the users are allowed to archive and share content. Meanwhile, networks visualization provided by computer software is powerful to preserve vernacular languages since text(s) tagging is one of the main processes in gaining data. The present…
Environmental activists' hysteresis as a driving force for establishing environmental actions against urban forest privatization in Bandung, Indonesia
Despite the huge and growing environmental movement to protect urban forests in Indonesia, the tensions between environmental activists' past engagements with nature and the emerging environmental problems are under-studied. The inner contradiction between the intensive nature of the connections and experiences that the actor maintains and the recent external threat to the environment is the key energizer of an environmental movement. Through Pie…
Reconstructing anti-capitalism as heterodoxa in Indonesia's youth-led urban environmentalism Twitter account
Indonesian educated middle-class fathers’ preferences in pregnancy services at a private hospital
Using in-depth interviews with six educated fathers whose wives were pregnant at the time of the study, the present research aims to interrogate how their preferences in pregnancy services have been developed and avidly exercised using their sets of cultural capital. Following the presented research analysis, the theorizing of education as cultural capital by Pierre Bourdieu allows the author to further explore the complexity of the relationship …
The campaign to save the Bandung city forest in Indonesia: A cognitive praxis analysis of protest repertoires
In 2007, Babakan Siliwangi city forest in Bandung came under threat of privatisation from a local corporation, PT EGI, which proposed hotel and commercial development. In the period 2012–2013, the anti-corporatist, environmentalist group Backsilmove emerged to fight a successful campaign to save the forest for public use. Employing the ‘cognitive praxis’ approach pioneered by [Eyerman and Jamison (1991. Social movements: a cognitive approach. Uni…
Politicised Space and Contentious Youth in Urban Environmentalism in Indonesia
The paper concerns a youth environmental movement in Bandung to save the urban forest Babakan Silawangi. It is proposed that space for protest plays a significant role in social movements such as environmentalism. Public assembly allows activists to voice their political objections and make their discontent known to the citizenry. Yet political space is different to physical place. According to Henri Lefebvre, political space is an assemblage of …
Incorporating and Converting Biogas Technology Into Household Space
Kemunculan teknologi biogas di Indonesia berkembang pesat setelah berkembangnya wacana mitigasi perubahan iklim oleh para ahli sains. Gas metan sebagai hasil dari kotoran hewan di Indonesia telah menarik perhatin para ahli teknologi untuk menerapkan teknologi yang tepat dan terjangkau di kalangan rumah tangga pedesaan, yakni biogas. Walaupun demikian, belakangan ini riset mengenai biogas jarang sekali membahas bagaimana teknologi memasak dapat be…
Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism
This book discusses the small band of European Zionists, who entered the world stage in late 19th century, determined to create a Jewish state and considers how, at that time in Europe, Jewish-Gentile
Poverty from the Wealth of Nations: Integration and Polarization in the Global Economy Since 1760
In Poverty from the Wealth of Nations , the author presents an analysis of the evolution of global disparities that goes beyond the earlier neo-Marxist critiques of global capitalism. He moves beyond
Using the system of environmental-economic accounting ecosystem accounting for policy: A case study on forest ecosystems
The changing piety and spirituality: A new trend of Islamic urbanism in Yogyakarta and Surakarta
The prevalence of urban spiritualism is on the rise among residents of major cities.One observable manifestation of urban spiritualism is the growing number ofdiverse social recitation gatherings. The present research looks into four distinctprofiles of assemblies that have emerged in the urban areas of Yogyakarta andSurakarta. The four assemblies comprise Muslim United and Teras Dakwah. InSurakarta, it is worth noting the presence of two promine…
Environmental activists' hysteresis as a driving force for establishing environmental actions against urban forest privatization in Bandung, Indonesia
Despite the huge and growing environmental movement to protect urban forests in Indonesia, the tensions between environmental activists' past engagements with nature and the emerging environmental problems are under-studied. The inner contradiction between the intensive nature of the connections and experiences that the actor maintains and the recent external threat to the environment is the key energizer of an environmental movement. Through Pie…
Poverty from the Wealth of Nations: Integration and Polarization in the Global Economy Since 1760
In Poverty from the Wealth of Nations , the author presents an analysis of the evolution of global disparities that goes beyond the earlier neo-Marxist critiques of global capitalism. He moves beyond
Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism
This book discusses the small band of European Zionists, who entered the world stage in late 19th century, determined to create a Jewish state and considers how, at that time in Europe, Jewish-Gentile
Incorporating and Converting Biogas Technology Into Household Space
Kemunculan teknologi biogas di Indonesia berkembang pesat setelah berkembangnya wacana mitigasi perubahan iklim oleh para ahli sains. Gas metan sebagai hasil dari kotoran hewan di Indonesia telah menarik perhatin para ahli teknologi untuk menerapkan teknologi yang tepat dan terjangkau di kalangan rumah tangga pedesaan, yakni biogas. Walaupun demikian, belakangan ini riset mengenai biogas jarang sekali membahas bagaimana teknologi memasak dapat be…
Politicised Space and Contentious Youth in Urban Environmentalism in Indonesia
The paper concerns a youth environmental movement in Bandung to save the urban forest Babakan Silawangi. It is proposed that space for protest plays a significant role in social movements such as environmentalism. Public assembly allows activists to voice their political objections and make their discontent known to the citizenry. Yet political space is different to physical place. According to Henri Lefebvre, political space is an assemblage of …
The campaign to save the Bandung city forest in Indonesia: A cognitive praxis analysis of protest repertoires
In 2007, Babakan Siliwangi city forest in Bandung came under threat of privatisation from a local corporation, PT EGI, which proposed hotel and commercial development. In the period 2012–2013, the anti-corporatist, environmentalist group Backsilmove emerged to fight a successful campaign to save the forest for public use. Employing the ‘cognitive praxis’ approach pioneered by [Eyerman and Jamison (1991. Social movements: a cognitive approach. Uni…
Reconstructing anti-capitalism as heterodoxa in Indonesia's youth-led urban environmentalism Twitter account
Indonesian educated middle-class fathers’ preferences in pregnancy services at a private hospital
Using in-depth interviews with six educated fathers whose wives were pregnant at the time of the study, the present research aims to interrogate how their preferences in pregnancy services have been developed and avidly exercised using their sets of cultural capital. Following the presented research analysis, the theorizing of education as cultural capital by Pierre Bourdieu allows the author to further explore the complexity of the relationship …
Struggling with Digital Pandemic: Students’ Narratives about Adapting to Online Learning at Home during the Covid-19 Outbreak
With the ongoing catastrophe of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world seems to have come to a standstill. Daily living routines, work, and schools predominantly launched into a state of confusion, and people across the globe excessively find ways to cope with their experiences of this traumatic disaster. Concerning schools, the pandemic has dramatically challenged the education system with teaching and learning processes managed remotely, utilising on…
Performing Toraja rice ritual, communicating biodiversity on YouTube: A study of conservation on rice landrace
The proliferating public interest in conservation can be explored by monitoring what people say and what people do on social media platforms. YouTube is one of the resources for digital conservation studies as the users are allowed to archive and share content. Meanwhile, networks visualization provided by computer software is powerful to preserve vernacular languages since text(s) tagging is one of the main processes in gaining data. The present…
Environmental activists' hysteresis as a driving force for establishing environmental actions against urban forest privatization in Bandung, Indonesia
Despite the huge and growing environmental movement to protect urban forests in Indonesia, the tensions between environmental activists' past engagements with nature and the emerging environmental problems are under-studied. The inner contradiction between the intensive nature of the connections and experiences that the actor maintains and the recent external threat to the environment is the key energizer of an environmental movement. Through Pie…
Upsurge of unnecessary caesarian section (CS) delivery in Bangladesh: A call for urgent attention
The changing piety and spirituality: A new trend of Islamic urbanism in Yogyakarta and Surakarta
The prevalence of urban spiritualism is on the rise among residents of major cities.One observable manifestation of urban spiritualism is the growing number ofdiverse social recitation gatherings. The present research looks into four distinctprofiles of assemblies that have emerged in the urban areas of Yogyakarta andSurakarta. The four assemblies comprise Muslim United and Teras Dakwah. InSurakarta, it is worth noting the presence of two promine…
Using the system of environmental-economic accounting ecosystem accounting for policy: A case study on forest ecosystems
Who Let the Dog and Cat Out? The Emergence of Stray Animal Care Non-Governmental Organisations in Brunei Darussalam
Until today, the existence of stray animals remains a source of contention between the public and the authorities. Public policy seems to be elusive in regulating this phenomenon, as it presents sociocultural conundrums. While there is a continued unclarity in the government regulations, cultures, and normative values; non-government organisations emerged with autonomous resources to take care of stray animals. The present study examines the effo…
Negotiating Ethnic and Religious Identities: Indonesian Chinese Muslims in Sharīʿah Compliant Business
This research is focused on how Indonesian Chinese Muslim entrepreneurs in Jakarta and Surabaya negotiated dual identity through sharīʿah compliant business practices. In addition, the integration of confucian ethical values with Islamic principles to form innovative and ethical business models that resonated in Indonesian Muslim-majority society, was explored. Drawing on empirical methods, including fieldwork and document analysis, the entrepren…
The social meanings of coffee consumption in Brunei: A sociological exploration
Coffee, as one of the world’s principal commodities, has long been connected with Western culture in the beverage industry. This study explores the reasons of the stated phenomenon, why it arose, the social significance and meanings of consuming coffee, and lastly, the influences of coffee culture on individuals' lifestyles through coffee consumption in Brunei. This study employed a qualitative technique, including interviews via an online confer…
Water salinity and its impact on Bangladeshi coastal areas women’s health: An urgent need for enhanced preventive measures
Linking Visual–Auditory Cues to Restoration: The Mediating Role of Perceived Biodiversity
Due to rapid urbanization over the past five decades, there has been growing interest in the role of biodiversity in supporting human well-being. While previous research highlights the role of landscape biodiversity in psychological restoration, the pathway linking visual and auditory cues to perceived biodiversity-and subsequently to restorative outcomes-remains poorly understood. This study explores how visual and auditory stimuli influence hum…
Formal management structure of informal market: A case study of Bou Bazar of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Longing for home: Conversations about the homeland from Pakistanis in Brunei Darussalam
Purpose The paper aims to analyse the motives and significance of conversations amongst overseas Pakistanis in Brunei about their homeland. These conversations involve topics around politics, religion and entertainment, reflecting the sense of belonging and connection they maintain with Pakistan whilst living abroad. Design/methodology/approach This study employed a qualitative research approach, using open-ended interviews to gather narratives f…
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