Raasheed Mahmood
(Professor)Department of Anthropology
Short Biography:
Till to date, I have had the opportunity to take institutional training in anthropology from the department of anthropology, University of Dhaka during the mid 90s and from the department of sociology and anthropology, UNSW in the late 2000s. However, as a student of a fieldwork oriented knowledge tradition I ...
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| Degree Name | Group/Major Subject | Board/Institute | Country | Passing Year |
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| Masters | Sociology and Anthropology | University of New South Wales | Australia | 2008 |
| Masters | Anthropology | University of Dhaka | Bangladesh | 1998 |
| Bachelor | Anthropology | University of Dhaka | Bangladesh | 1997 |
| Title | Organization | Location | From Date | To Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professor | Department of Anthropology, University of Dhaka | 01, Jul 2019 | Currently Working | |
| Associate Professor | Department of Anthropology, University of Dhaka | 21, Jan 2013 | 30-06-2019 | |
| Assistant Professor | Department of Anthropology, University of Dhaka | 05, Mar 2005 | 20-01-2013 | |
| Lecturer | Department of Anthropology, University of Dhaka | 03, Apr 2003 | 05-03-2005 | |
| Lecturer | Department of Anthropology, University of Rajshahi | 03, Jan 2001 | 02-04-2003 | |
| Part Time Teacher | Department of Sociology, Eden Woman's University College | 10, Mar 2000 | 10-11-2000 |
Research Interest
| Subject | Description | Research Interest (Goal, Target Indicator) |
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| Literary anthropology | ||
| Development of new methods for mapping and communicating ‘invisible’ social processes | ||
| Critical turns in anthropological theories | ||
| Development and developmentalism | ||
| Ethnicity, identity and marginality |
Project/Research Supervision
| Level of Study | Title | Supervisor | Co-Supervisor(s) | Name of Student(s) | Area of Research | Current Completion |
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| No project/research supervision is found | ||||||
Project/Research Work
| Subject | Project Name | Source of Fund | From Date | To Date | Collaboration |
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| Research Fellow | Strategic Environmental Assessment of Climate Change Adaptation Options in Bangladesh | Bangladesh Climate Change Trust, MoEFCC (Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change) | 01-01-2016 | 31-12-2016 | |
| Research Fellow | Ethno-linguistic Survey of Bangladesh | Ministry of Education, Bangladesh under the supervision of the International Mother Language Institute | 01-06-2014 | 30-06-2017 | |
| Advocacy Specialist | Water, Climate Change and Food Security: Local Knowledge and Global Application | Social Science Research Council (SSRC), Ministry of Planning, Bangladesh | 01-02-2014 | 28-02-2015 | |
| Member of the Strategy Development Team of TREE (Training Research Education for Empowerment) | Identification of Probable Scope of Participation of Young People in the Government Development efforts and Finding out the Strategies for active Participation | Department of Youth Development, Ministry of Youth and Sports, Bangladesh | 01-01-2013 | 31-01-2013 | |
| Principal Researcher | Documentation and Promotion of Transferable Indigenous Knowledge and Coping strategies for Disaster Risk Reduction | CARE, Bangladesh | 01-05-2009 | 31-07-2009 | |
| Principal Researcher | Baseline Survey on The linkages between disaster risk reduction and good governance in Bangladesh | Manusher Jonno Foundation | 01-02-2009 | 30-04-2009 | |
| Junior Consultant | Capacity Building of Women through ICT | Ministry of Science and Information & Communication Technology, Bangladesh | 01-01-2005 | 31-12-2005 |
Invited Talk
| SL | Invited Talk |
|---|---|
| 1 | যৌনতার ইতিহাস এবং ফুকোডিয়ান ক্ষমতার ধারণাavailable at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1sS_OJvUJg ফ্রাঙ্কফুর্ট স্কুল ও পলিটিক্যাল কারেক্টনেসavailable at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMNzjor-7so |
| SL | Collaboration & Membership Name | Type | Membership Year | Expire Year |
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| No Collaboration & Membership is found | ||||
| Book | |
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| 1 |
Hasan Shafie, Farhana Begum, Zobaida Nasreen, Raasheed Mahmood and Shaila Sharmeen Selected Issues in Social Justice and Human Rights in Bangladesh.
Dhaka: UNDP, 2019 .
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| 2 |
Zahidul Islam, Hasan Shafie and Raasheed Mahmood Culture, Adaptation and Resilience: Essays on Climate Change Regime in South Asia.
Dhaka: BCCT, MoEFCC and the Department of Anthropology, University of Dhaka, 2017 .
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| Book Section | |
| 1 |
Hasan Shafie, Raasheed Mahmood, Farhana Begum, Shaila Sharmeen and Zobaida Nasreen "Rights of Indigenous and Excluded Groups: Assessing the Situation in Bangladesh through the Lens of Subjects."
Selected Issues in Social Justice and Human Rights in Bangladesh. Hasan Shafie, Farhana Begum, Zobaida Nasreen, Raasheed Mahmood and Shaila Sharmeen (eds.) Dhaka: UNDP, 2019 1-14 .
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| 2 |
Zahidul Islam, Hasan Shafie and Raasheed Mahmood "Anthropology, Adaptation and Resilience: Reinventing Cultural Perspective in Climate Change Regime."
Culture, Adaptation and Resilience: Essays on Climate Change Regime in South Asia. Zahidul Islam, Hasan Shafie and Raasheed Mahmood (eds.) Dhaka: BCCT, MoEF and the Department of Anthropology, DU, 2017 1-24 .
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| 3 |
Raasheed Mahmood and Arif Mahmud "Post-Development? Please wait, we are still busy with the fierce face of development."
Ideas and Practices in Development: Anthropological Perspective. Muhammad Mizanuddin, Md. Kamal Pasa and Kazi Robiul Alom (eds.) Rajshahi: Dept. of Anthropology, University of Rajshahi, 2013 79-93 .
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| 4 |
Raasheed Mahmood and Bokhtiar Ahmed "The Semiosis of the Feminine in Bangla Language."
Eastwards/Westwards: Which Direction for Gender Studies in the 21st Century?. Clara Sarmento (ed.) London: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007 93-108 .
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| 5 |
Raasheed Mahmood "Research and Life History: Facing the Challenges of New Ethnography."
Challenges of Anthropology in the 21st Century. Zahidul Islam and Hasan Shafie (eds.) Dhaka: Dept. of Anthropology, University of Dhaka, 2006 135-143 .
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| 6 |
Raasheed Mahmood "নৃবিজ্ঞান, আধুনিকতা ও উত্তরাধুনিকতা: প্রাসঙ্গিকতার প্রেক্ষিত অনুসন্ধানে (A paper written in Bengali, which may correspond to English as “Anthropology, Modernism and Postmodernism: In Search of Relevance”)."
Shamaj, Sharir O Poribesh: Nribigyaner Probondhaboli. Prof. Nurul Alam (ed.) Dhaka: Dept. of Anthropology, Jahangirnagar University, 2003 100-113 .
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| Journal Article | |
| 1 |
Raasheed Mahmood : Anthropological Dilemmas in the Protection and Preservation of Cultural Heritage with Special Reference to UNESCO, Armed Conflict and Bangladesh,
Social Science Review, The Dhaka University Studies, part-D , vol.56 , no.2 , pp.31-47 , 2019
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| 2 |
Raasheed Mahmood : Politics of Identity and Politicized Identity: Encountering Globalization,
Culture and Society , vol.01 , pp.47-58 , 2018
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| 3 |
Raasheed Mahmood and Kazi Mizanur Rahman : Migration and Globalization: Ethnicity and the Political Economy of Diaspora,
Peoples’ Preface: A journal of research initiatives , vol.01 , no.02 , pp.143-152 , 2018
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| 4 |
Raasheed Mahmood and Salma Ahmed : Terminating Diversity, germinating ‘otherness’: The case of food and food habit,
Peoples’ Preface: A Journal of Research Initiatives , vol.01 , no.01 , pp.41-54 , 2017
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| 5 |
Raasheed Mahmood : Book Review of “The Invention of Tradition”,
Man and Culture , vol.03 , no.01 , pp.85-95 , 2017
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| 6 |
Saifur Rashid and Raasheed Mahmood : Anthropology’s engagement in development: Some conceptual and contextual issues,
Social Science Review, The Dhaka University Studies , vol.33 , no.01 , pp.13-28 , 2016
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Raasheed Mahmood : ইসলামিক নৃবিজ্ঞান: ভাবনা ও বাস্তবতা A paper written in Bengali which may correspond to English as “Islamic Anthropology: Ideas and realities”,
Journal of Sociology , vol.05 , no.01 , pp.129-138 , 2013
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| 8 |
Raasheed Mahmood and Md. Mustafa Kamal Akand : On Money, Market and Exchange: Looking Through the Anthropological Spectacles,
Journal of Sociology , vol.04 , no.01 , pp.53-62 , 2012
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Raasheed Mahmood : নৃবিজ্ঞান, নৃবিজ্ঞানী, রাষ্ট্র, সন্ত্রাসবাদ ও সন্ত্রাসবাদের বিরুদ্ধে যুদ্ধ A paper written in Bengali, which may correspond to English as “Anthropology, anthropologist, state, terrorism and the war against terrorism”,
Journal of Sociology , vol.01 , no.03 , pp.163-176 , 2011
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| 10 |
Raasheed Mahmood : Construction of Womanhood in the Bengali Language of Bangladesh,
Polissema , vol.06 , pp.217-231 , 2006
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| 11 |
Raasheed Mahmood and Bokhtiar Ahmed : যুদ্ধ, শাস্ত্রীয় আদিকল্প ও শাস্ত্রবিদ: সাম্প্রতিক নৃবিজ্ঞান পরিপ্রেক্ষিত (A paper written in Bengali, which may correspond to English as “War, Disciplinary Paradigm and Academia: In the context of contemporary anthropology”),
Dhaka Biswabidyalaya Potrika (Dhaka University Journal) , vol.80 , pp.145-157 , 2004
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| 12 |
Hasan Shafie and Raasheed Mahmood : The Plight of an Ethnic Minority: The Munda of Northwest Bangladesh,
Asian Anthropology , vol.02 , pp.161-178 , 2003
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| Award Type | Title | Year | Country | Description |
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Raasheed Mahmood
Professor
Department of Anthropology
Faculty of Social Sciences
Email: raasheed1@yahoo.com
Mobile (Dept): 880-2-9661900/6688