Md Al-Amin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3696929 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Md Al-Amin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Md |
| FAMILY NAME | Al-Amin |
| SIGNATURE | AL-AMIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Shahjalal University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3789-0030 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The violent escalation of nonviolent movements
What drives a nonviolent movement to adopt violent strategies? The paper examines this question through a Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) of the Saffron Revolution in Myanmar and the movement led by Hefazat-e-Islam (HI) in Bangladesh. Utilizing a similar system design, it explores how actors, including monks and lay people in Myanmar and religious leaders in Bangladesh, shaped agency and strategic choices within otherwise comparable moveme…
Poverty and education
Unveiling the nexus
This study explores the influence of students’ repurchase intention in the online shopping environment, focusing on the importance of e-trust and e-customer satisfaction. It investigates the mediating role of e-trust and e-customer satisfaction on online repurchase intention, while considering the moderating effect of prior online experience in Bangladesh. The research adopts a quantitative approach, collecting data from 415 students who have eng…
Integrating an educational supply chain model in the higher education sector
The higher education sector is facing challenges to meet the market demand of skilled workers in the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR). This study explores educational supply chain management systems in the higher education sector in Bangladesh. Qualitative data were collected through interview with stakeholders in educational supply chain management and analyzed to conceptualize a thematic framework for the educational supply chain. Fin…
An Investigation into the Problems Faced by Freshers at Bangladeshi Universities
The shift from secondary level to tertiary level marks an important phase in a student’s academic and personal life. This study investigates the various challenges faced by first-year university students, commonly known as freshers. This study utilized both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, encompassing questionnaires, interviews, and observations, to identify the primary challenges encountered by students in their initial university ex…
Ethnicity, culture and human development of Bangladesh’s tea workers
Unveiling the path to acceptance for blended learning adoption through an SEM-based model
Breaking the barriers
This article aims to examine the structural constraints to aspirations for higher education of tea workers' offspring in Bangladesh and how some of them overcame these constraints and determined their future pathways. The study was conducted drawing insights from Arjun Appadurai's capacity to aspire and Pierre Bourdieu's capital, habitus and field and employing a qualitative case study of two tea gardens in greater Sylhet, Bangladesh. We used a t…
No dreams, no gain
Voices of the poor
This article aims to investigate the true situation of rights and agency of the Bangladeshi teagarden workers, drawing insights from James Scott’s theory of ‘public’ and ‘hidden’ transcripts and employing multi-sited ethnography. We collected data through qualitative in-depth interviews, case studies, focus group discussions, and direct observation for this study. Rights, in Scottian terms, are the public transcript to produce agency of the worke…
The application of Foucault's disciplinary power to microcredit programmes in two villages of Sylhet, Bangladesh
This article aims to explore the loan recovery mechanisms of two internationally-reputed microcredit and development organisations in Bangladesh. The organisations are Grameen Bank and Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC). We conducted an institutional ethnography to study the phenomenon of loan recovery from the poor. Data were collected through in-depth interviews, case studies, informal discussion, and direct observation. Purposive sa…
The Rampal Power Plant, Ecological Disasters and Environmental Resistance in Bangladesh
This paper examines the conflict between state and society which surrounds the potential social and environmental impacts of the coal-based Rampal Power Plant in Bangladesh. The project, if implemented, would create a risk of serious social and environmental damage in Bangladesh and would potentially displace impoverished communities. Near Rampal, the world’s largest mangrove forest and a world heritage site – the Sundarbans – is at risk. Rampal …
Agency, empowerment and intra-household gender relations in Bangladesh
This article seeks to probe the influence of microcredit on the development of agency and empowerment of poor women in rural Bangladesh. The study was conducted on the clients of two leading NGOs—Grameen Bank (GB) and Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC)—in Bangladesh. The qualitative findings of the ethnographic study confirmed that poor women’s involvement in microcredit programs does not contribute to the development of their agency a…
Life behind leaves
This article aims to investigate the causes of poverty and vulnerability, and the survival strategies, of the tea garden workers in Bangladesh. The study was conducted drawing insights from Sen’s and Nussbaum’s capability approach and employing a triangulation of methods, which include intensive interviews, focus group discussions, and key informant interviews, for collecting data. The study finds that capability deprivation in various spheres of…
Women Empowerment through Microcredit
Microcredit has become a key instrument to the path of women empowerment in Bangladesh and has been replicated in many parts of the globe. However, the credit-based model does not go beyond the academic debates. Many scholars have argued that microcredit has brought substantial changes to the pathway of women empowerment. Challenging this view, others scholars have claimed that microcredit has no significant effect on empowerment of women rather …
Life behind leaves
This article aims to investigate the causes of poverty and vulnerability, and the survival strategies, of the tea garden workers in Bangladesh. The study was conducted drawing insights from Sen’s and Nussbaum’s capability approach and employing a triangulation of methods, which include intensive interviews, focus group discussions, and key informant interviews, for collecting data. The study finds that capability deprivation in various spheres of…
Voices of the poor
This article aims to investigate the true situation of rights and agency of the Bangladeshi teagarden workers, drawing insights from James Scott’s theory of ‘public’ and ‘hidden’ transcripts and employing multi-sited ethnography. We collected data through qualitative in-depth interviews, case studies, focus group discussions, and direct observation for this study. Rights, in Scottian terms, are the public transcript to produce agency of the worke…
Breaking the barriers
This article aims to examine the structural constraints to aspirations for higher education of tea workers' offspring in Bangladesh and how some of them overcame these constraints and determined their future pathways. The study was conducted drawing insights from Arjun Appadurai's capacity to aspire and Pierre Bourdieu's capital, habitus and field and employing a qualitative case study of two tea gardens in greater Sylhet, Bangladesh. We used a t…
No dreams, no gain
Ethnicity, culture and human development of Bangladesh’s tea workers
The application of Foucault's disciplinary power to microcredit programmes in two villages of Sylhet, Bangladesh
This article aims to explore the loan recovery mechanisms of two internationally-reputed microcredit and development organisations in Bangladesh. The organisations are Grameen Bank and Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC). We conducted an institutional ethnography to study the phenomenon of loan recovery from the poor. Data were collected through in-depth interviews, case studies, informal discussion, and direct observation. Purposive sa…
Agency, empowerment and intra-household gender relations in Bangladesh
This article seeks to probe the influence of microcredit on the development of agency and empowerment of poor women in rural Bangladesh. The study was conducted on the clients of two leading NGOs—Grameen Bank (GB) and Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC)—in Bangladesh. The qualitative findings of the ethnographic study confirmed that poor women’s involvement in microcredit programs does not contribute to the development of their agency a…
Women Empowerment through Microcredit
Microcredit has become a key instrument to the path of women empowerment in Bangladesh and has been replicated in many parts of the globe. However, the credit-based model does not go beyond the academic debates. Many scholars have argued that microcredit has brought substantial changes to the pathway of women empowerment. Challenging this view, others scholars have claimed that microcredit has no significant effect on empowerment of women rather …
Women Empowerment through Microcredit
Microcredit has become a key instrument to the path of women empowerment in Bangladesh and has been replicated in many parts of the globe. However, the credit-based model does not go beyond the academic debates. Many scholars have argued that microcredit has brought substantial changes to the pathway of women empowerment. Challenging this view, others scholars have claimed that microcredit has no significant effect on empowerment of women rather …
The Rampal Power Plant, Ecological Disasters and Environmental Resistance in Bangladesh
This paper examines the conflict between state and society which surrounds the potential social and environmental impacts of the coal-based Rampal Power Plant in Bangladesh. The project, if implemented, would create a risk of serious social and environmental damage in Bangladesh and would potentially displace impoverished communities. Near Rampal, the world’s largest mangrove forest and a world heritage site – the Sundarbans – is at risk. Rampal …
Agency, empowerment and intra-household gender relations in Bangladesh
This article seeks to probe the influence of microcredit on the development of agency and empowerment of poor women in rural Bangladesh. The study was conducted on the clients of two leading NGOs—Grameen Bank (GB) and Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC)—in Bangladesh. The qualitative findings of the ethnographic study confirmed that poor women’s involvement in microcredit programs does not contribute to the development of their agency a…
Life behind leaves
This article aims to investigate the causes of poverty and vulnerability, and the survival strategies, of the tea garden workers in Bangladesh. The study was conducted drawing insights from Sen’s and Nussbaum’s capability approach and employing a triangulation of methods, which include intensive interviews, focus group discussions, and key informant interviews, for collecting data. The study finds that capability deprivation in various spheres of…
Voices of the poor
This article aims to investigate the true situation of rights and agency of the Bangladeshi teagarden workers, drawing insights from James Scott’s theory of ‘public’ and ‘hidden’ transcripts and employing multi-sited ethnography. We collected data through qualitative in-depth interviews, case studies, focus group discussions, and direct observation for this study. Rights, in Scottian terms, are the public transcript to produce agency of the worke…
The application of Foucault's disciplinary power to microcredit programmes in two villages of Sylhet, Bangladesh
This article aims to explore the loan recovery mechanisms of two internationally-reputed microcredit and development organisations in Bangladesh. The organisations are Grameen Bank and Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC). We conducted an institutional ethnography to study the phenomenon of loan recovery from the poor. Data were collected through in-depth interviews, case studies, informal discussion, and direct observation. Purposive sa…
Unveiling the path to acceptance for blended learning adoption through an SEM-based model
Breaking the barriers
This article aims to examine the structural constraints to aspirations for higher education of tea workers' offspring in Bangladesh and how some of them overcame these constraints and determined their future pathways. The study was conducted drawing insights from Arjun Appadurai's capacity to aspire and Pierre Bourdieu's capital, habitus and field and employing a qualitative case study of two tea gardens in greater Sylhet, Bangladesh. We used a t…
No dreams, no gain
Unveiling the nexus
This study explores the influence of students’ repurchase intention in the online shopping environment, focusing on the importance of e-trust and e-customer satisfaction. It investigates the mediating role of e-trust and e-customer satisfaction on online repurchase intention, while considering the moderating effect of prior online experience in Bangladesh. The research adopts a quantitative approach, collecting data from 415 students who have eng…
Integrating an educational supply chain model in the higher education sector
The higher education sector is facing challenges to meet the market demand of skilled workers in the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR). This study explores educational supply chain management systems in the higher education sector in Bangladesh. Qualitative data were collected through interview with stakeholders in educational supply chain management and analyzed to conceptualize a thematic framework for the educational supply chain. Fin…
An Investigation into the Problems Faced by Freshers at Bangladeshi Universities
The shift from secondary level to tertiary level marks an important phase in a student’s academic and personal life. This study investigates the various challenges faced by first-year university students, commonly known as freshers. This study utilized both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, encompassing questionnaires, interviews, and observations, to identify the primary challenges encountered by students in their initial university ex…
Ethnicity, culture and human development of Bangladesh’s tea workers
The violent escalation of nonviolent movements
What drives a nonviolent movement to adopt violent strategies? The paper examines this question through a Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) of the Saffron Revolution in Myanmar and the movement led by Hefazat-e-Islam (HI) in Bangladesh. Utilizing a similar system design, it explores how actors, including monks and lay people in Myanmar and religious leaders in Bangladesh, shaped agency and strategic choices within otherwise comparable moveme…
Poverty and education
Economics (9 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Business (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (4 works) · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion (3 works) · Poverty (3 works) · Socioeconomics (3 works)