Faculty Profile

Mohammad Javed Kaisar Ibne Rahman

Associate Professor

Contact Information

  • Office Address: Associate Professor Institute of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh
  • Phone: +8801711588023
  • Email: jvdkaisar-anp@sust.edu, kaisar@eth.mpg.de

Biography

Currently, I am a member of the Emmy Noether Research Group "Sand - The Future of Coastal Cities in the Indian Ocean" at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle. My ethnographic study aims at describing and understanding the life of Rohingyas living onto a nearshore silt island. In this research I examine how sand, infrastructure and ocean shape the life of the refugees living on Bhasan Char.

For the last couple of years, I have been researching social media, religion, and religion-based nationalism in Bangladesh. Besides, I am also engaged to locate the politics of recognition, especially for Qawmi Madrasa education (Islamic Religion-based education system) and Hijra community in Bangladesh. I have been doing ethnographic fieldwork both in Sylhet and Dhaka to address the diversity of the lived experiences of the people. My primary research interest is anthropology of the state, where I have conducted several fieldworks to understand the dynamics and performance of the state and its various institutions. I have conducted extensive ethnographic research in Chittagong Hill Tracts to address the relationship between military and indigenous people. I have also conducted fieldwork in Sweden among transnational migrant families to address family crisis in post-migration condition. As an anthropologist, I love to travel and mingle with people from various social-positions regardless of social-settings. Currently, I am in a tenure position as Assistant Professor. I have completed my MSc in Social Anthropology from Stockholm University, Sweden, and BSS and MSS in Anthropology from Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh.

Education

  • MSc in Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
  • MSS in Anthropology, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • BSS in Anthropology, Jahangirnarar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Research Interests

  • Anthropology of the State
  • Sand
  • Materiality and Infrastructure
  • Gated Community
  • Urban Policing and Surveillance
  • Environmental Politics and Power
  • Bio-politics and Governmentality

Active Research Project

  • Emmy Noether Group: Sand - The Future of Coastal Cities in the Indian Ocean,

Previous Research Project

  • Year: 2019-2020 Title of the project: Understanding the ‘Host’ and ‘Guest’ Dynamics: A Study on the Effects of Rohingya Influx on the People of Palongkhali Union in Ukhiya, Bangladesh. Funded by: Academic Research Center, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology. Principle Researcher: AFM Zakaria, Associate Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology.
  • Year: 2018-2019 Title of the project: Ordering the Border: An Inspection into the Role of Lauwaghar-Balat Border Haat (Border market) in the Bangladesh-India Border Management. Funded by: Academic Research Center, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology. Principle Researcher: AFM Zakaria, Associate Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology.
  • Year: 2017-18 Title of the project: Arguing with Environmentalists: Understanding the Nature and Dynamics of Environmental Government and Movements around Ratargul Swamp Forest of Sylhet, Bangladesh. Funded by: Academic Research Center, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology. Principle Researcher: AFM Zakaria, Associate Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology.
  • Year: 2016-17 Title of the project: An Application of Structured Decision-Making Process in Approaching Deforestation and Promoting Sustainable Forest Management of Sylhet, Bangladesh. Funded by: Academic Research Center, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology. Principle Researcher: AFM Zakaria, Associate Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology.
  • Year: 2015-2016 Title of the project: From right to development to inclusive development: the Bangladesh Scenario. Funded by: Social Science Research council, Ministry of Planning, Bangladesh. Principle Researcher: Professor Dr. Nurul Alam., Dept. of Anthropology, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka.
  • Year: 2015 Title of the project: Health and Hazard due to Climate Change: An Anthropological Exploration on the Haor (Wetland) People Bangladesh. Funded by: Academic Research Center, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology. Principle Researcher: Md. Shahgahan Mia, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology.

Journal Publish

  • 1. Rahman, M. J. K. I. (2022) Religious Nationalism in Digitalscape: An Analysis of the Post-Shahbag Movement in Bangladesh. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 10, 201-218.
  • 2. Rahman, M. J. K. I., Merina, T. T. (2021). Bullfight, Bull for Fight and Masculinity: Understanding the Gender Relation of Male and Female in Ishkapan Village. Journal of Anthropology, 26(1), Department of Anthropology, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh. [The Paper is in Bengali Language]
  • 3. Anam, M. M., Hossain, M. A., Rahman, M. J. K. I., Farhana, S., Siddiqui, B., Islam, S., Chowdhury, S. (2020). An Anthropological Observation based on the Experience of ‘Working from Home’ in the Time of Covid19: Contextualizing and Reconceptualizing ‘Home’. Journal of Anthropology, 25(1), 1-18. Department of Anthropology, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh. [The Paper is in Bengali Language]
  • 4. Zakaria, AFM, Nur-E-Taj, T., Rahman, M. J. K. I. (2020) Politics with the Formal Recognition of Hijra Community: An Insight into ‘New Gender Category’ in Bangladesh from a Neoliberal Outlooks. Man and Culture. 5(1), Institute of Social Research and Applied Anthropology, Bangladesh.
  • 5. Rahman, M. Javed Kaisar Ibne (2015) Bangladeshi Migrants, Transnational Families and Contested Reality: in Context of Sweden in Nrvijnana Patrika (Journal of Anthropology), Vol. 20, Issue 1. P. 1-20. Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka.
  • 6. Rahman, M. Javed Kaisar Ibne (2013) Life is Not as Beautiful as Wedding Pictures: Traditional Masculinity and Family Crises among Bangladeshi Migrants in Stockholm, Sweden. LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Germany.

Teaching

  • Culture, Space and Globalization
  • Design Anthropology
  • Urban Anthropology
  • Visual Anthropology
  • Migration and Diaspora
  • Belief Systems

Graduate Supervision

  • BSS Thesis Research Supervision: Completed 32.
  • MSS Thesis Research Supervision:1