About
Dr Mohammad Mozahidul Islam presently holds the position of Professor in the Department of History at Jahangirnagar University in Bangladesh. He earned his PhD in Politics & International Relations from the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Dr Islam’s areas of expertise encompass the politics of hunger, the nature of the Bangladesh state, protest movements, and the historical context of Bangladesh’s liberation struggle. His most recent publications include Why Nations Fail to Feed the Poor: The Politics of Food Security in Bangladesh, published by Routledge in New York, and Manohar, New Delhi.
Research
During his stay at CRASSH, Dr Islam will work on strategies and counterforces in environmental activism in Bangladesh. In his project, he aims to conduct a comparative study of two environmental movements in Bangladesh: one in 2006, a “success,” and the other in 2022, a “failure.” The project’s fundamental question is why certain movements succeed while others fail. This question will be examined by focusing on the strategies of environmental activists and the counterforces while gaining an understanding of the lessons learned from successes and failures.
