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PROF Naomi Hossain's Outputs (25)

Pathways towards power shifts: state-society synergy (2023)
Journal Article
Fox, J., Robinson, R. S., & Hossain, N. (2023). Pathways towards power shifts: state-society synergy. World Development, 172, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106346

Policy reformers often make bold promises to improve government responsiveness to citizen demands. Yet such proclaimed openings from above often fall short, get diverted, or are blocked. This study uses the state-society synergy approach to analyze e... Read More about Pathways towards power shifts: state-society synergy.

The politics of complaint: a review of the literature on grievance redress mechanisms in the global South (2023)
Journal Article
Hossain, N., Joshi, A., & Pande, S. (2024). The politics of complaint: a review of the literature on grievance redress mechanisms in the global South. Policy Studies, 45(2), 139-158. https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2023.2193387

Institutionalized complaint systems are notable features of improving public programmes and government practice. This article reviews literature on formal grievance redress mechanisms in the global South to understand whether these mechanisms help th... Read More about The politics of complaint: a review of the literature on grievance redress mechanisms in the global South.

An Exploration of the Association Between Fuel Subsidies and Fuel Riots (2022)
Journal Article
McCulloch, N., Natalini, D., Hossain, N., & Justino, P. (2022). An Exploration of the Association Between Fuel Subsidies and Fuel Riots. World Development, 157, Article 105935. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.105935

Between 2005 and 2018, 41 countries had at least one riot directly associated with popular demand for fuel. We make use of a new international dataset on fuel riots to explore the effects of fuel prices and price regimes on fuel riots. In line with p... Read More about An Exploration of the Association Between Fuel Subsidies and Fuel Riots.

The geopolitics of bare life in 1970s Bangladesh (2021)
Journal Article
Hossain, N. (2021). The geopolitics of bare life in 1970s Bangladesh. Third World Quarterly, 42(11), 2706-2723. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2021.1954902

This article explores how the people and landscape of the Bay of Bengal came to be cast in terms of what Giorgio Agamben called ‘bare life’ – a people without the protection or mandate of sovereign law – in the international discourse of the early 19... Read More about The geopolitics of bare life in 1970s Bangladesh.

The Implications of Closing Civic Space for Hunger and Poverty in the Global South (2021)
Journal Article
Hossain, N., & Oosterom, M. (2021). The Implications of Closing Civic Space for Hunger and Poverty in the Global South. Global Policy, 12(S5), 59-69. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12979

Concerns about closing civic space have focused on human rights, and little to date has been known of the impacts on development. This article traces impacts of closing civic space on civil society and social movements addressing poverty and hunger i... Read More about The Implications of Closing Civic Space for Hunger and Poverty in the Global South.

The moral and political economy of the pandemic in Bangladesh: Weak states and strong societies during Covid-19 (2021)
Journal Article
Ali, T. O., Hassan, M., & Hossain, N. (2021). The moral and political economy of the pandemic in Bangladesh: Weak states and strong societies during Covid-19. World Development, 137, Article 105216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105216

As the Covid-19 pandemic spread in 2020, the government of Bangladesh ordered a lockdown and promised a program of relief. Citizens complied at first, but soon returned to economic and social life; relief proved slow and uncertain, and citizens could... Read More about The moral and political economy of the pandemic in Bangladesh: Weak states and strong societies during Covid-19.

The SDGs and the empowerment of Bangladeshi women (2020)
Book Chapter
Hossain, N. (2020). The SDGs and the empowerment of Bangladeshi women. In S. Chaturvedi, H. Janus, S. Klingebiel, X. Li, A. de Mello e Souza, E. Sidiropoulos, & D. Wehrmann (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Development Cooperation for Achieving the 2030 Agenda: Contested Collaboration (453-474). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57938-8_21

This chapter describes Bangladesh’s successes with advancing gender equality in the period of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), locating their origins in elite commitment to including women in the development process, and in the partnerships a... Read More about The SDGs and the empowerment of Bangladeshi women.

How the international media framed 'food riots' during the global food crises of 2007-12 (2018)
Journal Article
Hossain, N. (2018). How the international media framed 'food riots' during the global food crises of 2007-12. Food Security, 10, 677-688. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-018-0802-7

This paper explores the framing of ‘food riots’ in the international media during the global food crisis period of 2007–12. This is an important issue because the international media’s overly simplistic treatment of food-related protests as caused by... Read More about How the international media framed 'food riots' during the global food crises of 2007-12.

Ethical and Methodological Issues in Large Qualitative Participatory Studies (2018)
Journal Article
Hossain, N., & Scott-Villiers, P. (2019). Ethical and Methodological Issues in Large Qualitative Participatory Studies. American Behavioral Scientist, 63(5), 584-603. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764218775782

Participatory research studies utilizing qualitative data drawn from large, diverse samples appear increasingly common in the social sciences, particularly in international development. This reflects demand for participatory approaches to researching... Read More about Ethical and Methodological Issues in Large Qualitative Participatory Studies.

Post-conflict ruptures and the space for women's empowerment in Bangladesh (2018)
Journal Article
Hossain, N. (2018). Post-conflict ruptures and the space for women's empowerment in Bangladesh. Women's Studies International Forum, 68, 104-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2018.03.001

Bangladesh is widely deemed to have made rapid progress on gender equality and women's empowerment. How to understand the apparent advances of women in a poor, populous, Muslim-majority country in the belt of classic patriarchy? This paper locates th... Read More about Post-conflict ruptures and the space for women's empowerment in Bangladesh.

Food riots in Bangladesh?: Garments worker protests and globalised subsistence crises (2017)
Book Chapter
Jahan, F., & Hossain, N. (2017). Food riots in Bangladesh?: Garments worker protests and globalised subsistence crises. In N. Hossain, & P. Scott-Villiers (Eds.), Food Riots, Food Rights and the Politics of Provisions. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315175249

This chapter describes the food crisis of 2008 as it unfolded in Bangladesh, and examines some of the official responses, both short- and longer-term. It explores the politics of provisions during this period, looking at how the moral and political e... Read More about Food riots in Bangladesh?: Garments worker protests and globalised subsistence crises.

The significance of unruly politics in Bangladesh (2017)
Book Chapter
Hossain, N. (2017). The significance of unruly politics in Bangladesh. In I. Basu, J. Devine, & G. Wood (Eds.), Politics and Governance in Bangladesh: Uncertain Landscapes. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315201337

This chapter looks at both elite and mass modes of politics. Unruliness - framed variously as informality, fragility - is the substantive governance issue in Bangladesh, and political unruliness is at its nucleus. It explains why Bangladeshi politica... Read More about The significance of unruly politics in Bangladesh.

The 1970 Bhola cyclone, nationalist politics, and the subsistence crisis contract in Bangladesh (2017)
Journal Article
Hossain, N. (2018). The 1970 Bhola cyclone, nationalist politics, and the subsistence crisis contract in Bangladesh. Disasters, 42(1), 187-203. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12235

The devastating Bhola cyclone in November 1970 is credited with having triggered the political events that led to the division of Pakistan and the creation of Bangladesh in 1971. A callous response to the disaster by the Pakistani regime resulted in... Read More about The 1970 Bhola cyclone, nationalist politics, and the subsistence crisis contract in Bangladesh.

From Global to Local and Back Again: Researching Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility (2015)
Journal Article
Hossain, N. (2015). From Global to Local and Back Again: Researching Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility. IDS Bulletin, 46(6), 8-19. https://doi.org/10.1111/1759-5436.12182

This article sets out the thinking behind the research methodology used in the Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility project. It sets out the key questions and aims, describes the approach, and explains why we chose the research design we did. It d... Read More about From Global to Local and Back Again: Researching Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility.

Moral economy in a global era: the politics of provisions during contemporary food price spikes (2014)
Journal Article
Hossain, N., & Kalita, D. (2014). Moral economy in a global era: the politics of provisions during contemporary food price spikes. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 41(5), 815-831. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2014.895328

The wave of food riots since 2007 revived interest in why people protest in periods of dearth, yet research has to date failed to make sense of the political cultures of food protests. The concept of the moral economy in European history is explored... Read More about Moral economy in a global era: the politics of provisions during contemporary food price spikes.

Anatomy of Coping: Evidence from People Living through the Crises of 2008-11 (2012)
Preprint / Working Paper
Heltberg, R., Hossain, N., Reva, A., & Turk, C. (2012). Anatomy of Coping: Evidence from People Living through the Crises of 2008-11

This paper surveys qualitative crisis monitoring data from sites in 17 developing and transition countries to describe crisis impacts and analyze the responses and sources of support used by people to cope. These crises included shocks to export sect... Read More about Anatomy of Coping: Evidence from People Living through the Crises of 2008-11.