Lecturer at the University of Oxford. Author of 'Syndicates and Societies: Criminal Politics in Dhaka' (CUP, 2024)
Joined July 2023
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Excited to share my new book:
'Syndicates and Societies: Criminal Politics in Dhaka' (Cambridge University Press)
More details here: cambridge.org/core/books/syn…
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Join us tomorrow for talk by David Jackman on the crime-politics nexus in Kawran Bazaar, Dhaka.
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Please join us at SOAS tomorrow for this exciting talk by @davidgjackman - most timely and relevant to the current breakdown of law and order in Bangladesh
Join us tomorrow for talk by David Jackman on the crime-politics nexus in Kawran Bazaar, Dhaka.
Register 👇
soas.ac.uk/about/event/syndi…
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Join us on 11 November for a book launch for ‘Syndicates and Societies: Criminal Politics in Dhaka’.
Author David Jackman will discuss his book’s findings with Barbara Harriss-White.
5pm, 11 November @ Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
Details: qeh.ox.ac.uk/event/book-laun…
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It’s World Cities Day!
…but it’s also Halloween. In this article, @davidgjackman and I explore some of the worrying trends with regard to how rising authoritarianism is impacting on cities, drawing on our recent book.
theconversation.com/autocrat…
It shows how syndicates are run on the streets through petty extortionists, associations and informers, and follows a group of labourers as they seek a place in this world, aligning themselves to leaders, orchestrating bombings and fighting off rivals.
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Many thanks to @nomhossain @e_arild and Lucia Michelutti for the endorsements!
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How did Sheikh Hasina get here? This paper in 2020 by .@davidgjackman of Oxford University foretold many of the cataclysmic events we saw this week. Paywall-free version here: ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:55…
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Open access pre-publication version here: ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:55…
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A window of opportunity has opened in Bangladesh. Will the interim government do the right thing ? And what will the upcoming changes mean for democracy, human rights and institutional integrity in the country?
Bangladesh student protesters to meet with army chief after PM resigns theguardian.com/world/articl…
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🧵 Bangladesh’s Prothom Alo newspaper has a front-page story on the final moments of Hasina’s tenure. She insisted on using brute force until only 45 minutes before her departure; no amount of pleading from her aides and officials could persuade her to relent. 1/n
But we also need to remember that these grievances are encountering the most politicised, empowered and well-equipped domestic security agencies Bangladesh has ever had, alongside a deep rooted party infrastructure, and now, it appears, the army too.
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More context here (paywall): tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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