K N Fattah
Biographic Data
| ID | 41639 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K N Fattah |
| GIVEN NAMES | K N |
| FAMILY NAME | Fattah |
| SIGNATURE | FATTAH K N |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8945-1670 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Towards an ‘Ethics of Evidence’
Routledge Handbook of South Asian Migration
The Enduring Liminality of Camp Life
Engaging with informality and the subaltern in overlooked cities
Climate research in the Global South tends to focus on large (>10 million population) cities. However, most of the urban poor in the South live in smaller cities. The knowledge and experience of the urban poor in smaller cities is highly contextualized, therefore, knowledge about these cities and the plight of their subaltern populations and the contours of informality cannot easily be ‘extrapolated’ from megacities. Rather than empirical prescri…
NGOs, CBOs, and the contested politics of community-driven development in urban informal settlements
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in an informal settlement in Dhaka, this article examines the relationships, contestations and negotiations of power and control between non-government organizations (NGO), community-based organizations (CBO) and local leaders in the context of community-driven development (CDD) interventions. Findings suggest a shift in informal settlement residents' perceptions and attitudes toward NGOs and CDD interventions wh…
Toilers of the Shipyard
Notes1 It was arranged by First Light Institute of Photography (a photography school based in Dhaka), with guidance from GMB Akash, an award-winning Bangladeshi documentary photographer. The Institute obtained permission from one of the shipyards (I omitted the name here for privacy reasons) for us to take photos there. Consent was taken from the individuals before taking their photos.Additional informationNotes on contributorsKazi Nazrul FattahD…
Locating agency at the urban grassroots
Agency of the urban poor living in informal settlements in Southern cities can manifest in numerous ways in their encounters and negotiations with the formal state and various other actors located in the hierarchy of power relations. A certain form of agency rooted in oppositional consciousness can emerge from their everyday experiences of various forms of structural violence and oppression. Drawing on ethnographic case studies carried out in two…
Poverty, dowry and the ‘good match’
The high prevalence of child marriage in many South Asian countries is usually attributed to poverty, lack of access to education and economic opportunities and gender inequitable cultural norms. Yet in Bangladesh, despite economic growth, mass female education and concerted efforts to eliminate child marriage, its prevalence remains very high. This paper explores community-level perceptions, attitudes and practices relating to child marriage in …
Informal housing residents’ well-being in cities of the Global North and South
Informal housing residents’ well-being in cities of the Global North and South: a reply to ‘Informal housing and residents’ well-being in Caracas and Sydney: a comparative study of residents’ experiences’ by Quintana Vigiola" published on May 2022 by Bristol University Press
Bihari Muharram processions in Dhaka city
The Biharis in Bangladesh are a heavily persecuted ethnic minority confined to slum like camps for nearly five decades. Using data from ethnographic research carried out in a Bihari camp and its surrounding areas in Dhaka city, this visual essay examines the ways in which the Biharis use religious processions to claim visibility, assert community identity and territorialise urban public space in a city that systematically denies them access to ci…
A Good Place for the Poor!” Counternarratives to Territorial Stigmatisation from Two Informal Settlements in Dhaka
With many cities in the Global South experiencing immense growth in informal settlements, city authorities frequently try to assert control over these settlements and their inhabitants through coercive measures such as threats of eviction, exclusion, blocked access to services and other forms of structural violence. Such coercive control is legitimized through the discursive formation of informal settlements as criminal and unsanitary, and of the…
Right to information (RTI) legislation
Merely creating a legal space by enacting right to information (RTI) legislation is often not enough to ensure citizens’, especially women's, access to information. Based on a pilot intervention on RTI implementation in Bangladesh, this article explores whether the introduction of information intermediaries, or “infomediaries”, enhances rural citizens’ access to information through using the RTI Act. It was found that due to the assisted access p…
Locating agency at the urban grassroots
Agency of the urban poor living in informal settlements in Southern cities can manifest in numerous ways in their encounters and negotiations with the formal state and various other actors located in the hierarchy of power relations. A certain form of agency rooted in oppositional consciousness can emerge from their everyday experiences of various forms of structural violence and oppression. Drawing on ethnographic case studies carried out in two…
A Good Place for the Poor!” Counternarratives to Territorial Stigmatisation from Two Informal Settlements in Dhaka
With many cities in the Global South experiencing immense growth in informal settlements, city authorities frequently try to assert control over these settlements and their inhabitants through coercive measures such as threats of eviction, exclusion, blocked access to services and other forms of structural violence. Such coercive control is legitimized through the discursive formation of informal settlements as criminal and unsanitary, and of the…
NGOs, CBOs, and the contested politics of community-driven development in urban informal settlements
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in an informal settlement in Dhaka, this article examines the relationships, contestations and negotiations of power and control between non-government organizations (NGO), community-based organizations (CBO) and local leaders in the context of community-driven development (CDD) interventions. Findings suggest a shift in informal settlement residents' perceptions and attitudes toward NGOs and CDD interventions wh…
Right to information (RTI) legislation
Merely creating a legal space by enacting right to information (RTI) legislation is often not enough to ensure citizens’, especially women's, access to information. Based on a pilot intervention on RTI implementation in Bangladesh, this article explores whether the introduction of information intermediaries, or “infomediaries”, enhances rural citizens’ access to information through using the RTI Act. It was found that due to the assisted access p…
Bihari Muharram processions in Dhaka city
The Biharis in Bangladesh are a heavily persecuted ethnic minority confined to slum like camps for nearly five decades. Using data from ethnographic research carried out in a Bihari camp and its surrounding areas in Dhaka city, this visual essay examines the ways in which the Biharis use religious processions to claim visibility, assert community identity and territorialise urban public space in a city that systematically denies them access to ci…
A Good Place for the Poor!” Counternarratives to Territorial Stigmatisation from Two Informal Settlements in Dhaka
With many cities in the Global South experiencing immense growth in informal settlements, city authorities frequently try to assert control over these settlements and their inhabitants through coercive measures such as threats of eviction, exclusion, blocked access to services and other forms of structural violence. Such coercive control is legitimized through the discursive formation of informal settlements as criminal and unsanitary, and of the…
Poverty, dowry and the ‘good match’
The high prevalence of child marriage in many South Asian countries is usually attributed to poverty, lack of access to education and economic opportunities and gender inequitable cultural norms. Yet in Bangladesh, despite economic growth, mass female education and concerted efforts to eliminate child marriage, its prevalence remains very high. This paper explores community-level perceptions, attitudes and practices relating to child marriage in …
Informal housing residents’ well-being in cities of the Global North and South
Informal housing residents’ well-being in cities of the Global North and South: a reply to ‘Informal housing and residents’ well-being in Caracas and Sydney: a comparative study of residents’ experiences’ by Quintana Vigiola" published on May 2022 by Bristol University Press
Toilers of the Shipyard
Notes1 It was arranged by First Light Institute of Photography (a photography school based in Dhaka), with guidance from GMB Akash, an award-winning Bangladeshi documentary photographer. The Institute obtained permission from one of the shipyards (I omitted the name here for privacy reasons) for us to take photos there. Consent was taken from the individuals before taking their photos.Additional informationNotes on contributorsKazi Nazrul FattahD…
Locating agency at the urban grassroots
Agency of the urban poor living in informal settlements in Southern cities can manifest in numerous ways in their encounters and negotiations with the formal state and various other actors located in the hierarchy of power relations. A certain form of agency rooted in oppositional consciousness can emerge from their everyday experiences of various forms of structural violence and oppression. Drawing on ethnographic case studies carried out in two…
Engaging with informality and the subaltern in overlooked cities
Climate research in the Global South tends to focus on large (>10 million population) cities. However, most of the urban poor in the South live in smaller cities. The knowledge and experience of the urban poor in smaller cities is highly contextualized, therefore, knowledge about these cities and the plight of their subaltern populations and the contours of informality cannot easily be ‘extrapolated’ from megacities. Rather than empirical prescri…
NGOs, CBOs, and the contested politics of community-driven development in urban informal settlements
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in an informal settlement in Dhaka, this article examines the relationships, contestations and negotiations of power and control between non-government organizations (NGO), community-based organizations (CBO) and local leaders in the context of community-driven development (CDD) interventions. Findings suggest a shift in informal settlement residents' perceptions and attitudes toward NGOs and CDD interventions wh…
Towards an ‘Ethics of Evidence’
Routledge Handbook of South Asian Migration
The Enduring Liminality of Camp Life
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (5 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (5 works) · Art (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Law (3 works)