Md Azmain Muhtasim Mir

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Md Azmain Muhtasim Mir

Associate Professor

Comilla University
Comilla University
Cumilla-3506, Bangladesh

azmain.mir@cou.ac.bd

Md Azmain Muhtasim Mir is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Comilla University, Cumilla, Bangladesh. In December 2018, Azmain received a Master of Anthropology (Advanced) degree from The Australian National University, Australia. Earlier, he completed his Bachelor and Master in Anthropology at the University of Rajshahi (RU), Rajshahi, Bangladesh. After graduation, Azmain worked as a researcher and a research officer in different research projects at Save the Children International (SCI) and Icddr'b. Subsequently, he joined the Department of Anthropology, Comilla University as a lecturer and working here since July 2013. He was promoted to the position of Assistant Professor in July 2016. Azmain’s recent and previous researches mainly explored the representation and marginalization of ethnic and religious minorities; issues in cultural heritage, tourism development and management; impact of digital technology and commodification on urban youth; structural violence against working-class women and children in Bangladesh; construction of personhood through well-being and social aspirations, exclusion and vulnerabilities through medicalization, development disaster and social surveillance.

Master degree Australian National University Anthropology (Advanced) -
Master degree University of Rajshahi (RU), Rajshahi Anthropology -
Bachelor University of Rajshahi (RU), Rajshahi Anthropology -

Department of Anthropology, Comilla University, Cumilla, Bangladesh
Assistant Professor
July 2016 - Present


Department of Anthropology, Comilla University, Cumilla, Bangladesh
Lecturer
July 2013 - July 2013


International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Research Officer
October 2012 - November 2012


Save the Childrern International, Gulshan, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Researcher
March 2012 - September 2012


1. Implications of Michel Foucault's ideas on Power, Subjectification, and Resistance in Ethnographic Analyses

2019
Journal of Social Science, No: 02, Comilla University, Comilla, Bangladesh.


2. Representation and Marginalization of Jumma People through Tourism Development and Management in Sajek Valley of Chattogram Hill Tracts, Bangladesh

2019
Vol.4, No.3, Pp 89-102, Institute of Social Research & Applied Anthropology (ISRAA), Rajshahi, Bangladesh.


3. Experiences of Impoverished Abandoned Women and their Children in Comilla City of Bangladesh

2018
Comilla University Journal of Social Science, 01, Comilla University, Comilla, Bangladesh.


4. Women Workers’ Experience and Survival Tactics in the Garments Industry

2015
A Study, Gender Relation, Otherness and Market-oriented Globalization, Department of Anthropology, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka & Novel Publishing House, Dhaka.


5. Desire of Life and the Construction processes of Desire; Middle class Male’s and Female’s Agency

2014
The Journal of Anthropology (Nriviggyana Patrika), Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, 19.


Critical Theories and Contemporary Perspectives; Cultural Heritage, Multiculturalism and Citizenship   eritage, Tourism and Community Development; Ethnicity, Nationalism and the politics of Recognition   Social and Cultural Construction of Personhood; Well-being and Happiness of South Asian Migrants   Digitalization, Commodification and Urban youth.