Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles (papers older than 2 years are available for free download)
Ferdoush, M. A. (2021). To “help” or not to “help” the participant: A global South ethnographer’s dilemma in the global South. Geoforum, 124. pp. 75-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.06.004 (Open Access)
Ferdoush, M. A. (2021). Sovereign atonement: (Non)citizenship, territory, and state-making in post-colonial South Asia. Antipode, 53 (2). pp. 546-566. DOI: 10.1111/anti.12685 (Antipode short video abstract) (Antipode Critical Class Room Resource)
Ferdoush, M. A. (2020). Navigating the 'field': Reflexivity, uncertainties, and negotiation along the border of Bangladesh and India. Ethnography. https://doi.org/10.1177/1466138120937040.
Ferdoush, M. A. (2019). Acts of belonging: The choice of citizenship in the former border enclaves of Bangladesh and India. Political Geography, 70. pp. 83-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.01.015. (Finalist, Political Geography Early Career Researcher Award 2020)
Ferdoush, M. A. (2018). Seeing borders through the lens of structuration: A theoretical framework. Geopolitics, 23 (1). pp. 180-200. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2017.1341406. (Winner of Outstanding Publication by a Graduate Student Award 2018, Geography & Environment, UH Mānoa)
Ferdoush, M. A. (2016). Revisiting Cass’s model of homosexual identity development in the context of Bangladesh society. Sage Open, 6 (2). pp. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244016651913.
Books/ Edited Books
Jones,R. and Ferdoush, M. A. (eds.). (2018). Borders and mobility in South Asia and beyond. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
(Open Access)
(Review 1 “relevant,” “thought-provoking,” and “a good read.”)
(Review 2 “an excellent compilation”)
Book Chapters
Ferdoush, M. A. (In press 2022). 'Stateless' yet resilient: Resistance, disruption, and movement along the border of Bangladesh and India. In D. Andersen and E. Prokkola (eds) Borderlands Resilience –Transitions, Adaptation and Resistance at Borders. London: Routledge
Paasi, A. and Ferdoush, M.A. (forthcoming, 2022). New borders and mobility in the age of globalization: De-bordering, re-bordering and beyond. In D.J. Timothy and A. Gellbman (eds), Routledge Handbook of Political Borders and Tourism. London: Routledge
Ferdous, M.A. (forthcoming 2022). Parallel identities: Enclave dwellers, (non)citizens, proxy citizens, Bangladeshis, and Indians. In K. Jacobsen and N. Majidi (eds), Handbook on Forced Migration. London: Edward Elgar
Encyclopedia Entry
Ferdoush, M. A.(2020). Structuration Theory. In Audrey Kobayashi (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, pp. 97-104, London: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102295-5.10714-0
Book Review
Conferences
Ferdoush, M. A. (2021). The border moved and the land became “flexible.” The Line Crossed Us Conference, Lethbridge Border Studies Research Group, Lethbridge University, Alberta, Canada, June 10-11.
Ferdoush, M. A. (2021). Acts of motion: Towards a post-humanistic understanding of borders. American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, April 07- April 11.
Ferdoush, M. A. (2021). Showcase citizens: Citizenship in making along the border of Bangladesh and India. Political Geography Specialty Group Pre-Conference. Washington, January 06-07.
Ferdoush, M. A. (2020). Acts of belonging: Incorporating the stateless from below. Migration in the North. Arctic Center, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland, October 29-30.
Ferdoush, M. A. (2019). Sovereign overcompensation: (Re)making the border and citizens in the former enclaves of Bangladesh and India. American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, Washington DC, April 03- April 07.
Ferdoush, M. A. (2019). Acts of belonging: The choice of citizenship in the former border enclaves of Bangladesh and India. Political Geography Specialty Group Pre-Conference. Washington DC, April 02.
Ferdoush, M. A. (2016). Swapping territories: Choosing citizenship, sovereignty, and belonging in the former Bangladesh- India border enclaves. Center for South Asian Studies, UH Mānoa 33rd Annual Spring Symposium: Borders and Mobility. Honolulu, HI. April 6-8.
Ferdoush, M. A. (2016). Settling in and settling out of the border enclaves of Bangladesh and India: New identity, new prospects, new problems too? American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. March 29-April 02.
Ferdoush, M. A. (2016). After the exchange: citizenship, sovereignty, and belonging in the former Bangladesh-India border enclaves. Political Geography Specialty Group Pre-Conference. San Francisco, CA. March 28
Ferdoush, M. A. (2016). Exchanging Bangladesh-India border enclaves, changing states, changing nationality: Problems and prospects. The Annual EWC Graduate Student Conference. Honolulu-Hawaii. February 11-13.
Campus Talks
Ferdoush, M. A. (2019). Flexible lands: The state and its citizens’ negotiation over land ownership, Annual Geography Student Symposium, UH Mānoa, May 03.
Ferdoush, M. A. (2017). Seeing borders through the lens of structuration: A theoretical framework. Annual Geography Student Symposium, UH Mānoa, May 05.
Ferdoush, M. A. (2016). After the exchange: Citizenship, sovereignty and belonging in the former Bangladesh-India border enclaves. Annual Geography Student Symposium, UH Mānoa, May 06.
Invited Talks
Ferdoush, M. A. (2021). Sovereign atonement and the making of showcase citizens along the borders of Bangladesh and India. Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, South Asia Center, Syracuse University, NY, November 02.
Ferdoush, M. A. (2019). Global migration and refugee "crisis". Sacred Hearths Academy, Honolulu, HI, December 13.
Ferdoush, M. A. (2019). To ‘leave’ or to ‘move’: Experiences of citizenship along the border of Bangladesh and India. International Cultural Studies Fall Faculty Speaker Series, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, October 16.
Ferdoush, M. A. (2018). The choice of citizenship: Social memory, regional identity, and spatial socialization, Sociology Colloquium at the
Department of Sociology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, May 30.
Web-based Publications
Borderwork and borders in South Asia through structuration
Op-Eds
70 Years After Partition: From 'Bare Lives' to 'Bare Citizens'
