Sajal Roy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3799079 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sajal Roy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sajal |
| FAMILY NAME | Roy |
| SIGNATURE | ROY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Sydney University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1532-9792 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Assessing the Role of Livelihood Capitals in Migration Decisions
This study explores the influence of various livelihood capitals—human, physical, financial, social, and natural—on migration intentions in the cyclone-affected coastal Sundarbans region. A field survey was conducted with 750 households from 10 villages in the Patharpratima Block, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India. The villages were categorized into areas with high, moderate, and low migration potential based on migration risk. To assess the …
Gender Quotas and Women's Substantive Representation in Local‐Level Government in Bangladesh
This qualitative research examines how far gender quotas lead to women's substantive representation in the Union Parishad in Bangladesh. To what extent and how do quota‐elected women members influence the decision‐making process in the Union Parishad to materialize policy outcomes for citizens, especially for women constituents in Bangladesh? Using a purposive sample, primary data were collected through semi‐structured and key informant interview…
Sociological perspectives of social media, rumors, and attacks on minorities
Social media platforms serve as essential modes of communication for billions of people around the world. They host a diverse range of content-from the personal and social to the political serving as an important channel for connecting people for spreading ideas. However, given their widespread penetration into everyday social and political life, they have become a tool for spreading rumors and disinformation that may often misrepresent or distor…
Gender and the Politics of Disaster Recovery
Climate Change and Gendered Livelihoods in Bangladesh
Globally climate-induced disasters have been impacting marginalised communities’ lives, livelihood and gendered relations. This book explores the effects of Cyclone Aila (as a result of climate change) in 2009 on the rural livelihoods and gendered relations of two ethnically distinct forest communities – Munda, an indigenous group, and Shora, a Muslim group – dwelling near the Sundarbans Forest in Bangladesh. Examining the cyclone’s medium- to lo…
Unwrapping the Memory Box
The Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world, has been undergoing significant ecological changes due to climate change-related weather events since the late 1990s. This forest, situated in south-west Bangladesh, provides livelihood services to 3.5 million people. The livelihood provision of the Sundarbans forest has been invented due to climate-induced disasters, such as cyclones, sea-level rise, salinisation, heat waves, and flooding…
Climate change mitigation and adaptation in Bangladesh
Climate change is a leading threat to sustainable socio‐economic development in Bangladesh. Adverse impacts of climatic disasters including flash floods, recurrent cyclones and erratic rainfall patterns are already causing hardship for both rural and urban people and are expected to accelerate into the future. The aim of this research note is to identify the core contributing economic sectors to climate change in Bangladesh, and to consider effec…
Climate Change Impacts on Gender Relations in Bangladesh
Climate Change Impacts on Gender Relations in Bangladesh
Narratives of the Sundarbans Forest at Shora
Jeffrey K. Stine and W. John Kress, Living in the Anthropocene
Women of the storm
"Women of the storm: civic activism after Hurricane Katrina." Journal of Gender Studies, 27(5), pp. 607–608
Women and disasters in South Asia
Women and disasters in South Asia: survival, security and development." Gender, Place & Culture, 25(2), pp. 315–316
Climate change mitigation and adaptation in Bangladesh
Climate change is a leading threat to sustainable socio‐economic development in Bangladesh. Adverse impacts of climatic disasters including flash floods, recurrent cyclones and erratic rainfall patterns are already causing hardship for both rural and urban people and are expected to accelerate into the future. The aim of this research note is to identify the core contributing economic sectors to climate change in Bangladesh, and to consider effec…
Women and disasters in South Asia
Women and disasters in South Asia: survival, security and development." Gender, Place & Culture, 25(2), pp. 315–316
Women of the storm
"Women of the storm: civic activism after Hurricane Katrina." Journal of Gender Studies, 27(5), pp. 607–608
Climate Change Impacts on Gender Relations in Bangladesh
Climate Change Impacts on Gender Relations in Bangladesh
Narratives of the Sundarbans Forest at Shora
Jeffrey K. Stine and W. John Kress, Living in the Anthropocene
Unwrapping the Memory Box
The Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world, has been undergoing significant ecological changes due to climate change-related weather events since the late 1990s. This forest, situated in south-west Bangladesh, provides livelihood services to 3.5 million people. The livelihood provision of the Sundarbans forest has been invented due to climate-induced disasters, such as cyclones, sea-level rise, salinisation, heat waves, and flooding…
Climate change mitigation and adaptation in Bangladesh
Climate change is a leading threat to sustainable socio‐economic development in Bangladesh. Adverse impacts of climatic disasters including flash floods, recurrent cyclones and erratic rainfall patterns are already causing hardship for both rural and urban people and are expected to accelerate into the future. The aim of this research note is to identify the core contributing economic sectors to climate change in Bangladesh, and to consider effec…
Climate Change and Gendered Livelihoods in Bangladesh
Globally climate-induced disasters have been impacting marginalised communities’ lives, livelihood and gendered relations. This book explores the effects of Cyclone Aila (as a result of climate change) in 2009 on the rural livelihoods and gendered relations of two ethnically distinct forest communities – Munda, an indigenous group, and Shora, a Muslim group – dwelling near the Sundarbans Forest in Bangladesh. Examining the cyclone’s medium- to lo…
Gender and the Politics of Disaster Recovery
Sociological perspectives of social media, rumors, and attacks on minorities
Social media platforms serve as essential modes of communication for billions of people around the world. They host a diverse range of content-from the personal and social to the political serving as an important channel for connecting people for spreading ideas. However, given their widespread penetration into everyday social and political life, they have become a tool for spreading rumors and disinformation that may often misrepresent or distor…
Assessing the Role of Livelihood Capitals in Migration Decisions
This study explores the influence of various livelihood capitals—human, physical, financial, social, and natural—on migration intentions in the cyclone-affected coastal Sundarbans region. A field survey was conducted with 750 households from 10 villages in the Patharpratima Block, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India. The villages were categorized into areas with high, moderate, and low migration potential based on migration risk. To assess the …
Gender Quotas and Women's Substantive Representation in Local‐Level Government in Bangladesh
This qualitative research examines how far gender quotas lead to women's substantive representation in the Union Parishad in Bangladesh. To what extent and how do quota‐elected women members influence the decision‐making process in the Union Parishad to materialize policy outcomes for citizens, especially for women constituents in Bangladesh? Using a purposive sample, primary data were collected through semi‐structured and key informant interview…
Geography (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Climate change (4 works) · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Livelihood (4 works) · Politics (4 works)