Mubashar Hasan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3587411 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mubashar Hasan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mubashar |
| FAMILY NAME | Hasan |
| SIGNATURE | HASAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-1216-1955 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Democratic Bricolage
Despite their dominance and control over police, courts, state institutions, media, and civil society, authoritarian governments face multifaceted internal and external contestation over their right to rule and the boundaries of autocratic control. Analysis of this opposition is wanting in the literature on democratic backsliding. Societal groups, institutions, and individuals regularly contest governments’ claim to legitimate rule, and they seek…
Politics of Constructing Islam in the Everyday Lives of Young Bangladeshis: Asserting Majoritarian Islam, and the "Good / Bad Muslim" Narrative
This research paper examines how Bangladeshi youth perceive the role of Islam in their everyday lives and how this, in turn, informs broader political participation and radicalism. The emphasis is on unpacking the politics of meaning-making of Islam at the informal and individual levels eschewing a "high politics" approach that constitutes formal institutions and structures. Drawing on field-data collected in 2017 and 2018, this paper offers insi…
What is Islam? The highly contested debate about ‘Islam’ in Bangladeshi politics and culture
Bangladesh is a South Asian Muslim majority state.Despite being a small country geographically, Bangladesh has a larger Muslim population than Saudi Arabia, Iran and Afghanistan combined.The total population of Bangladesh is over 160 million.More than 89 percent are Sunni Muslims and Hindus constitute 10 percent.A small number of Shia Muslims, Baha'is Baha'is, and Ahmadi Muslims are part of the Bangladeshi Muslim population.Bangladesh is also hom…
When crackdowns and cooptation fail: What constrains religious opposition forces in Bangladesh
This article examines an evolving mix of constraints facing two key religious opposition forces in Bangladesh, namely, a modern Islamist political party known as the Jama'at-e-Islami (JI; Assembly of Islam) and a traditional madrasa-based social protest movement known as Hefazat-e-Islam (HeI; Protection of Islam). The article examines both 'external' constraints emanating from the country's ruling party, the Awami League (AL; People's League), as…
Radical Right Islamists in Bangladesh: A Counter-Intuitive Argument
The radical Right in Europe and Islamist parties in Muslim countries have conventionally been portrayed as fundamentally different. The article uses material from Bangladesh to argue that the two share a wide set of characteristics and can be understood as fundamentally similar. Theoretically, we suggest a concept of the radical Right that encapsulates a set of deeper sentiments found to some extent in any culture or society. These deeper sentime…
Re-Conceptualizing Safety of Journalists in Bangladesh
Journalists are currently facing a multitude of threats. Commonly, these are considered in terms of harassment and bodily harms such as incarceration and murder of journalists. In the Bangladeshi case we argue that the parameters for evaluating what constitutes safety for journalists go beyond conventional wisdom. On the basis of in-depth interviews of 23 Bangladeshi journalists, we argue that the concept of journalists’ safety has three intertwi…
Bangladeshi ‘Boat People’: Context, Drivers And Policy Implications
Based on field research, this article focuses on the little-known phenomenon of Bangladeshi ‘boat people’ seeking entry to Thailand and Malaysia. It identifies how in a populous country of the Global South, familiar with various kinds of worker migration and movements of people, changing political, social and ecological contexts may generate and drive yet more manifestations of migration, also related to trafficking. In particular, certain develo…
The Diverse Roots of the ‘Secular’ in East Pakistan (1947–71) and the Crisis of ‘Secularism’ in Contemporary Bangladesh
This article traces the formation of the secular in Bangladesh during the period of 1947–71. Arguably, this is a period when the idea of a ‘secular Bengali nation’ as opposed to ‘Islamic Pakistani nationalism’ was coined in by the political forces to foster imagination of a Bengali root of East Pakistan. This article argues with multiple evidence that particular project of secular Bengali nationalism in the sense of strict separation of religion …
South–South Migration and Security Risks: Political Islam and Violent Extremism in the Shadow of Globalisation in Bangladesh
Against the backdrop of 2016 terrorist attack in Dhaka, this article argues that in the terrain of Bangladeshi literatures on migration, little is explored about the impact of south–south migration in unleashing security threat to Bangladesh. This article offers a historic trajectory of south–south migration and security threat to Bangladeshi state. It argues that while it is important to understand migration from various point of views, scholars…
Sport as a critique of politics: Everest climbing, nationalism and the failure of politics in Bangladesh
Attempting to scale Mount Everest is a very recent sporting activity for Bangladeshis. Presently, four Bangladeshis (two men and two women) have hoisted the flag of Bangladesh, a country ranked consistently low on global governance and development indices, over the peak of Everest. In the aftermath, these mountaineers have become ‘sources of national inspiration’ and received national media attention and have been associated with politicians and …
Playing with Fire: Islamism and Politics in Bangladesh
This article examines Bangladesh in the context of the debate over the conditions under which Islamist groups are likely to subvert democracy or to be transformed by the democratic process. Bangladesh signals two conditions that play an important role. The first is the role of governments in promoting religion as a source of national identity. Successive governments in Bangladesh have consistently moved away from the promise of secularism that un…
Islam, Islamism, and Post‐Islamism: Rediscovering Politics after the War on Terror
Over the past twenty years, an influential body of conservative scholarship has focused on the alleged conflict between Islam and the West. Following widespread criticism of this scholarship, a number of commentators have revived its core assumptions to claim that the real conflict is between liberal democracy within Muslim societies and the political ideology of Islamism. In this article we trace the evolution of this scholarship, and suggest th…
Religion and Politics in International Relations: The Modern Myth
Religion and Politics in International Relations: The Modern Myth
Timothy Fitzgerald, Religion and Politics in International Relations: The Modern Myth, Continuum: London & New York, 2011, 224 pp., $39.95, ISBN 978-0826426925 Fitzgerald's book is a critique of th
Historical Developments of Political Islam with Reference to Bangladesh
This paper looks into the historic development of political Islam in Bangladesh, the third largest Muslim country of the world. Identifying origins and sociology of Bengali Muslims, this paper finds that development of political Islam took place in Bangladesh mainly in four phases: the Turkish war and the founding of the Khilafat movement during the First World War; the Oil crisis in the 1970s and the boost of Islamic institutions and practices i…
Democracy and Political Islam in Bangladesh
This article examines the deeply contested approaches of ‘political Islam’ towards modern democracy in Bangladesh, the third largest Muslim country in the world, where sharia law is not the source of public law and where a democratic government is in place. Selecting the political manifestos and constitutions of three different influential Islamist parties, the Jamat e Islami Bangladesh, Hizbut Tahrir Bangladesh and Jamatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh,…
Playing with Fire: Islamism and Politics in Bangladesh
This article examines Bangladesh in the context of the debate over the conditions under which Islamist groups are likely to subvert democracy or to be transformed by the democratic process. Bangladesh signals two conditions that play an important role. The first is the role of governments in promoting religion as a source of national identity. Successive governments in Bangladesh have consistently moved away from the promise of secularism that un…
Historical Developments of Political Islam with Reference to Bangladesh
This paper looks into the historic development of political Islam in Bangladesh, the third largest Muslim country of the world. Identifying origins and sociology of Bengali Muslims, this paper finds that development of political Islam took place in Bangladesh mainly in four phases: the Turkish war and the founding of the Khilafat movement during the First World War; the Oil crisis in the 1970s and the boost of Islamic institutions and practices i…
Democracy and Political Islam in Bangladesh
This article examines the deeply contested approaches of ‘political Islam’ towards modern democracy in Bangladesh, the third largest Muslim country in the world, where sharia law is not the source of public law and where a democratic government is in place. Selecting the political manifestos and constitutions of three different influential Islamist parties, the Jamat e Islami Bangladesh, Hizbut Tahrir Bangladesh and Jamatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh,…
Radical Right Islamists in Bangladesh: A Counter-Intuitive Argument
The radical Right in Europe and Islamist parties in Muslim countries have conventionally been portrayed as fundamentally different. The article uses material from Bangladesh to argue that the two share a wide set of characteristics and can be understood as fundamentally similar. Theoretically, we suggest a concept of the radical Right that encapsulates a set of deeper sentiments found to some extent in any culture or society. These deeper sentime…
The Diverse Roots of the ‘Secular’ in East Pakistan (1947–71) and the Crisis of ‘Secularism’ in Contemporary Bangladesh
This article traces the formation of the secular in Bangladesh during the period of 1947–71. Arguably, this is a period when the idea of a ‘secular Bengali nation’ as opposed to ‘Islamic Pakistani nationalism’ was coined in by the political forces to foster imagination of a Bengali root of East Pakistan. This article argues with multiple evidence that particular project of secular Bengali nationalism in the sense of strict separation of religion …
Democratic Bricolage
Despite their dominance and control over police, courts, state institutions, media, and civil society, authoritarian governments face multifaceted internal and external contestation over their right to rule and the boundaries of autocratic control. Analysis of this opposition is wanting in the literature on democratic backsliding. Societal groups, institutions, and individuals regularly contest governments’ claim to legitimate rule, and they seek…
Politics of Constructing Islam in the Everyday Lives of Young Bangladeshis: Asserting Majoritarian Islam, and the "Good / Bad Muslim" Narrative
This research paper examines how Bangladeshi youth perceive the role of Islam in their everyday lives and how this, in turn, informs broader political participation and radicalism. The emphasis is on unpacking the politics of meaning-making of Islam at the informal and individual levels eschewing a "high politics" approach that constitutes formal institutions and structures. Drawing on field-data collected in 2017 and 2018, this paper offers insi…
Bangladeshi ‘Boat People’: Context, Drivers And Policy Implications
Based on field research, this article focuses on the little-known phenomenon of Bangladeshi ‘boat people’ seeking entry to Thailand and Malaysia. It identifies how in a populous country of the Global South, familiar with various kinds of worker migration and movements of people, changing political, social and ecological contexts may generate and drive yet more manifestations of migration, also related to trafficking. In particular, certain develo…
South–South Migration and Security Risks: Political Islam and Violent Extremism in the Shadow of Globalisation in Bangladesh
Against the backdrop of 2016 terrorist attack in Dhaka, this article argues that in the terrain of Bangladeshi literatures on migration, little is explored about the impact of south–south migration in unleashing security threat to Bangladesh. This article offers a historic trajectory of south–south migration and security threat to Bangladeshi state. It argues that while it is important to understand migration from various point of views, scholars…
Sport as a critique of politics: Everest climbing, nationalism and the failure of politics in Bangladesh
Attempting to scale Mount Everest is a very recent sporting activity for Bangladeshis. Presently, four Bangladeshis (two men and two women) have hoisted the flag of Bangladesh, a country ranked consistently low on global governance and development indices, over the peak of Everest. In the aftermath, these mountaineers have become ‘sources of national inspiration’ and received national media attention and have been associated with politicians and …
Democracy and Political Islam in Bangladesh
This article examines the deeply contested approaches of ‘political Islam’ towards modern democracy in Bangladesh, the third largest Muslim country in the world, where sharia law is not the source of public law and where a democratic government is in place. Selecting the political manifestos and constitutions of three different influential Islamist parties, the Jamat e Islami Bangladesh, Hizbut Tahrir Bangladesh and Jamatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh,…
Historical Developments of Political Islam with Reference to Bangladesh
This paper looks into the historic development of political Islam in Bangladesh, the third largest Muslim country of the world. Identifying origins and sociology of Bengali Muslims, this paper finds that development of political Islam took place in Bangladesh mainly in four phases: the Turkish war and the founding of the Khilafat movement during the First World War; the Oil crisis in the 1970s and the boost of Islamic institutions and practices i…
Religion and Politics in International Relations: The Modern Myth
Religion and Politics in International Relations: The Modern Myth
Timothy Fitzgerald, Religion and Politics in International Relations: The Modern Myth, Continuum: London & New York, 2011, 224 pp., $39.95, ISBN 978-0826426925 Fitzgerald's book is a critique of th
Islam, Islamism, and Post‐Islamism: Rediscovering Politics after the War on Terror
Over the past twenty years, an influential body of conservative scholarship has focused on the alleged conflict between Islam and the West. Following widespread criticism of this scholarship, a number of commentators have revived its core assumptions to claim that the real conflict is between liberal democracy within Muslim societies and the political ideology of Islamism. In this article we trace the evolution of this scholarship, and suggest th…
Sport as a critique of politics: Everest climbing, nationalism and the failure of politics in Bangladesh
Attempting to scale Mount Everest is a very recent sporting activity for Bangladeshis. Presently, four Bangladeshis (two men and two women) have hoisted the flag of Bangladesh, a country ranked consistently low on global governance and development indices, over the peak of Everest. In the aftermath, these mountaineers have become ‘sources of national inspiration’ and received national media attention and have been associated with politicians and …
Playing with Fire: Islamism and Politics in Bangladesh
This article examines Bangladesh in the context of the debate over the conditions under which Islamist groups are likely to subvert democracy or to be transformed by the democratic process. Bangladesh signals two conditions that play an important role. The first is the role of governments in promoting religion as a source of national identity. Successive governments in Bangladesh have consistently moved away from the promise of secularism that un…
The Diverse Roots of the ‘Secular’ in East Pakistan (1947–71) and the Crisis of ‘Secularism’ in Contemporary Bangladesh
This article traces the formation of the secular in Bangladesh during the period of 1947–71. Arguably, this is a period when the idea of a ‘secular Bengali nation’ as opposed to ‘Islamic Pakistani nationalism’ was coined in by the political forces to foster imagination of a Bengali root of East Pakistan. This article argues with multiple evidence that particular project of secular Bengali nationalism in the sense of strict separation of religion …
South–South Migration and Security Risks: Political Islam and Violent Extremism in the Shadow of Globalisation in Bangladesh
Against the backdrop of 2016 terrorist attack in Dhaka, this article argues that in the terrain of Bangladeshi literatures on migration, little is explored about the impact of south–south migration in unleashing security threat to Bangladesh. This article offers a historic trajectory of south–south migration and security threat to Bangladeshi state. It argues that while it is important to understand migration from various point of views, scholars…
Bangladeshi ‘Boat People’: Context, Drivers And Policy Implications
Based on field research, this article focuses on the little-known phenomenon of Bangladeshi ‘boat people’ seeking entry to Thailand and Malaysia. It identifies how in a populous country of the Global South, familiar with various kinds of worker migration and movements of people, changing political, social and ecological contexts may generate and drive yet more manifestations of migration, also related to trafficking. In particular, certain develo…
Re-Conceptualizing Safety of Journalists in Bangladesh
Journalists are currently facing a multitude of threats. Commonly, these are considered in terms of harassment and bodily harms such as incarceration and murder of journalists. In the Bangladeshi case we argue that the parameters for evaluating what constitutes safety for journalists go beyond conventional wisdom. On the basis of in-depth interviews of 23 Bangladeshi journalists, we argue that the concept of journalists’ safety has three intertwi…
Radical Right Islamists in Bangladesh: A Counter-Intuitive Argument
The radical Right in Europe and Islamist parties in Muslim countries have conventionally been portrayed as fundamentally different. The article uses material from Bangladesh to argue that the two share a wide set of characteristics and can be understood as fundamentally similar. Theoretically, we suggest a concept of the radical Right that encapsulates a set of deeper sentiments found to some extent in any culture or society. These deeper sentime…
What is Islam? The highly contested debate about ‘Islam’ in Bangladeshi politics and culture
Bangladesh is a South Asian Muslim majority state.Despite being a small country geographically, Bangladesh has a larger Muslim population than Saudi Arabia, Iran and Afghanistan combined.The total population of Bangladesh is over 160 million.More than 89 percent are Sunni Muslims and Hindus constitute 10 percent.A small number of Shia Muslims, Baha'is Baha'is, and Ahmadi Muslims are part of the Bangladeshi Muslim population.Bangladesh is also hom…
When crackdowns and cooptation fail: What constrains religious opposition forces in Bangladesh
This article examines an evolving mix of constraints facing two key religious opposition forces in Bangladesh, namely, a modern Islamist political party known as the Jama'at-e-Islami (JI; Assembly of Islam) and a traditional madrasa-based social protest movement known as Hefazat-e-Islam (HeI; Protection of Islam). The article examines both 'external' constraints emanating from the country's ruling party, the Awami League (AL; People's League), as…
Politics of Constructing Islam in the Everyday Lives of Young Bangladeshis: Asserting Majoritarian Islam, and the "Good / Bad Muslim" Narrative
This research paper examines how Bangladeshi youth perceive the role of Islam in their everyday lives and how this, in turn, informs broader political participation and radicalism. The emphasis is on unpacking the politics of meaning-making of Islam at the informal and individual levels eschewing a "high politics" approach that constitutes formal institutions and structures. Drawing on field-data collected in 2017 and 2018, this paper offers insi…
Democratic Bricolage
Despite their dominance and control over police, courts, state institutions, media, and civil society, authoritarian governments face multifaceted internal and external contestation over their right to rule and the boundaries of autocratic control. Analysis of this opposition is wanting in the literature on democratic backsliding. Societal groups, institutions, and individuals regularly contest governments’ claim to legitimate rule, and they seek…
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Politics (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Bangladesh Politics, Society, and Development (10 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Islam (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Asian Studies and History (6 works)