Using the sociological construct of individual modernity, this study explores the impact of microcredit on the attitudes, behaviors, values and aspirations of women in rural and peri-urban Bangladesh. Viewing future-orientation, individualism, equity, tolerance of diversity, rationality, as...

This paper examines the growing contestations over public space of Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, between Islamic and secular groups since the country’s independence in 1971. The contestations illustrate the deeper ideological competitions between the secular, liberal and right‐wing...

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