Adnan Hossain
Biographic Data
| ID | 733403 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adnan Hossain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adnan |
| FAMILY NAME | Hossain |
| SIGNATURE | HOSSAIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4069-2123 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Lesbian in/from South Asia: Erotic and political geographies
This special issue emerged from a two-pronged question: what it means to be lesbian in/from South Asia and what it means to be so in the contemporary moment. The contemporary is marked by both enduring and emergent forms of precarities, changing strategies of survival, intensified digitalization and transformations in global queer politics. Seeking to open up the ideas of "lesbian" and "South Asia" both individually and in relation to each other,…
Investigating EFL Learners’ Perceptions of Using Grammarly in Enhancing Writing Proficiency in Bangladesh
The study investigates EFL learners’ perceptions of using Grammarly to enhance their writing proficiency in Bangladesh. English writing skills are vital for EFL learners, particularly in a globalized context where proficiency in English plays a significant role among non-native speakers. The study aims to explore and analyze learners’ perspectives on the benefits of Grammarly for improving writing skills. This study employs a mixed-method approac…
Reimagining a Transgender-Inclusive Bangladesh in the Wake of the July 2024 Uprising
This essay offers a set of reflections on the possibilities of societal accommodation and political inclusion of transgender persons in the wake of the July 2024 uprising in Bangladesh that led to the usurpation of the world's longest-serving female prime minister. The fall of the regime spawned new hope and possibilities for reimagining a pluralistic Bangladesh inclusive of various marginalized and underprivileged communities including transgend…
Beyond homocolonialism: Working towards queer decoloniality in Bangladesh
The queer movement in Bangladesh suffered a crisis in 2016 with the murder of two activists, leading to an unwanted hyper-visibility in wider society, and a chilling effect on activism. We detail what it means to think beyond postcolonial critiques of international LGBTQ rights, briefly explaining the realities and limits of queer politics in Bangladesh, focusing on sexual health infrastructures and the emergence of legal citizenship for the “thi…
Representing the Hijras of South Asia: Toward Transregional and Global Flows
Beyond Emasculation: Pleasure and Power in the Making of hijra in Bangladesh
This book is based on long term ethnographic research with hijras, the emblematic figure of South Asian sexual and gender difference in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It proposes the hijra as a counter-cultural formation that embodies not only a direct contrast to hegemonic patterns of masculinity but also as an alternative subculture offering the possibility of varied forms of erotic pleasures and practices otherwise forbidden in mainstream society. While m…
Sexual Nationalism, Masculinity and the Cultural Politics of Cricket in Bangladesh
Highlighting the way cricket has become a site of a new nationalist masculinity in post-colonial Bangladesh, this paper examines the eruption of a recent controversy about a Bangladeshi cricketer’s sexual entanglement with a movie actress just before the ICC (International Cricket Council) World Cup in 2015. The long-running racial interpretation of Bangladeshis as being of short stature and frail in the popular Indian and Pakistani media has led…
De-Indianizing Hijra
This essay advances a regional critique of the Indian-centric scholarship on hijra, a publicly institutionalized subculture of people typically assigned a male gender at birth who often sacrifice their genitals in return for spiritual power. The unexamined Indian hegemony in hijra studies works to reify not only hijra but also India. Drawing on ethnographic research in Bangladesh, this essay offers preliminary reflections on the need to adopt a r…
The paradox of recognition: Hijra , third gender and sexual rights in Bangladesh
Hijra, the iconic figure of South Asian gender and sexual difference, comprise a publicly institutionalised subculture of male-bodied feminine-identified people. Although they have existed as a culturally recognised third gender for a very long time, it is only recently that hijra have been legally recognised as a third gender in several South Asian countries. This paper focuses on the transformation of this long-running cultural category of thir…
Race and Cricket Narratives in the West Indies
Adnan Hossain asks who the best fast bowlers are, and why race matters in West Indies cricket
Beyond Emasculation: Being Muslim and BecomingHijrain South Asia
Hijra, the icon of sex/gender non-conformism in South Asia, are “male-bodied” people who identify as female and sacrifice their male genitals to a goddess in return for spiritual prowess. While hijra draw on a narrative tradition that creatively mingles Hinduism and Islam, scholars suggest that hijra exhibit a special bias towards Islam. In recent times, as in the more distant colonial past, that association has been drawn on the basis of emascul…
Beyond Emasculation: Being Muslim and BecomingHijrain South Asia
Hijra, the icon of sex/gender non-conformism in South Asia, are “male-bodied” people who identify as female and sacrifice their male genitals to a goddess in return for spiritual prowess. While hijra draw on a narrative tradition that creatively mingles Hinduism and Islam, scholars suggest that hijra exhibit a special bias towards Islam. In recent times, as in the more distant colonial past, that association has been drawn on the basis of emascul…
De-Indianizing Hijra
This essay advances a regional critique of the Indian-centric scholarship on hijra, a publicly institutionalized subculture of people typically assigned a male gender at birth who often sacrifice their genitals in return for spiritual power. The unexamined Indian hegemony in hijra studies works to reify not only hijra but also India. Drawing on ethnographic research in Bangladesh, this essay offers preliminary reflections on the need to adopt a r…
Beyond homocolonialism: Working towards queer decoloniality in Bangladesh
The queer movement in Bangladesh suffered a crisis in 2016 with the murder of two activists, leading to an unwanted hyper-visibility in wider society, and a chilling effect on activism. We detail what it means to think beyond postcolonial critiques of international LGBTQ rights, briefly explaining the realities and limits of queer politics in Bangladesh, focusing on sexual health infrastructures and the emergence of legal citizenship for the “thi…
Beyond Emasculation: Being Muslim and BecomingHijrain South Asia
Hijra, the icon of sex/gender non-conformism in South Asia, are “male-bodied” people who identify as female and sacrifice their male genitals to a goddess in return for spiritual prowess. While hijra draw on a narrative tradition that creatively mingles Hinduism and Islam, scholars suggest that hijra exhibit a special bias towards Islam. In recent times, as in the more distant colonial past, that association has been drawn on the basis of emascul…
Race and Cricket Narratives in the West Indies
Adnan Hossain asks who the best fast bowlers are, and why race matters in West Indies cricket
The paradox of recognition: Hijra , third gender and sexual rights in Bangladesh
Hijra, the iconic figure of South Asian gender and sexual difference, comprise a publicly institutionalised subculture of male-bodied feminine-identified people. Although they have existed as a culturally recognised third gender for a very long time, it is only recently that hijra have been legally recognised as a third gender in several South Asian countries. This paper focuses on the transformation of this long-running cultural category of thir…
De-Indianizing Hijra
This essay advances a regional critique of the Indian-centric scholarship on hijra, a publicly institutionalized subculture of people typically assigned a male gender at birth who often sacrifice their genitals in return for spiritual power. The unexamined Indian hegemony in hijra studies works to reify not only hijra but also India. Drawing on ethnographic research in Bangladesh, this essay offers preliminary reflections on the need to adopt a r…
Sexual Nationalism, Masculinity and the Cultural Politics of Cricket in Bangladesh
Highlighting the way cricket has become a site of a new nationalist masculinity in post-colonial Bangladesh, this paper examines the eruption of a recent controversy about a Bangladeshi cricketer’s sexual entanglement with a movie actress just before the ICC (International Cricket Council) World Cup in 2015. The long-running racial interpretation of Bangladeshis as being of short stature and frail in the popular Indian and Pakistani media has led…
Beyond Emasculation: Pleasure and Power in the Making of hijra in Bangladesh
This book is based on long term ethnographic research with hijras, the emblematic figure of South Asian sexual and gender difference in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It proposes the hijra as a counter-cultural formation that embodies not only a direct contrast to hegemonic patterns of masculinity but also as an alternative subculture offering the possibility of varied forms of erotic pleasures and practices otherwise forbidden in mainstream society. While m…
Representing the Hijras of South Asia: Toward Transregional and Global Flows
Beyond homocolonialism: Working towards queer decoloniality in Bangladesh
The queer movement in Bangladesh suffered a crisis in 2016 with the murder of two activists, leading to an unwanted hyper-visibility in wider society, and a chilling effect on activism. We detail what it means to think beyond postcolonial critiques of international LGBTQ rights, briefly explaining the realities and limits of queer politics in Bangladesh, focusing on sexual health infrastructures and the emergence of legal citizenship for the “thi…
Investigating EFL Learners’ Perceptions of Using Grammarly in Enhancing Writing Proficiency in Bangladesh
The study investigates EFL learners’ perceptions of using Grammarly to enhance their writing proficiency in Bangladesh. English writing skills are vital for EFL learners, particularly in a globalized context where proficiency in English plays a significant role among non-native speakers. The study aims to explore and analyze learners’ perspectives on the benefits of Grammarly for improving writing skills. This study employs a mixed-method approac…
Reimagining a Transgender-Inclusive Bangladesh in the Wake of the July 2024 Uprising
This essay offers a set of reflections on the possibilities of societal accommodation and political inclusion of transgender persons in the wake of the July 2024 uprising in Bangladesh that led to the usurpation of the world's longest-serving female prime minister. The fall of the regime spawned new hope and possibilities for reimagining a pluralistic Bangladesh inclusive of various marginalized and underprivileged communities including transgend…
Lesbian in/from South Asia: Erotic and political geographies
This special issue emerged from a two-pronged question: what it means to be lesbian in/from South Asia and what it means to be so in the contemporary moment. The contemporary is marked by both enduring and emergent forms of precarities, changing strategies of survival, intensified digitalization and transformations in global queer politics. Seeking to open up the ideas of "lesbian" and "South Asia" both individually and in relation to each other,…
Gender Studies (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (4 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Bangladesh Politics, Society, and Development (3 works)