Dr Mubashar Hasan
Adjunct Research Fellow
Institution
Western Sydney University
Research Area Keywords
Religion; Identity; Violence; CVE; South Asia; Bangladesh.
Contact: mubashar.hasan@westernsydney.edu.au
About Mubashar
Dr. Mubashar Hasan is an adjunct research fellow at the Humanitarian and Development Research Initiative (HADRI). His research interests include CVE, Radical Right, Authoritarianism, and religion-based violence in Muslim societies and Muslim diaspora in the West. He is the author of the book Islam and Politics: Followers of Ummah ( Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Dr. Hasan is the lead editor of the book Radicalization in South Asia: Context, Trajectories and Implications (Sage, 2019) and also co-edited the book Masks of Authoritarianism: Hegemony, Power and Public Life in Bangladesh (Palgrave Macmillan 2022). He is a member of the Research Advisory Council at the RESOLVE Network.
Key Publications
Books
Islam and Politics in Bangladesh: The Followers of Ummah (2020)
Hasan M
The Language of Youth Politics in Bangladesh: Beyond the Secular-Religious Binary (2017)
Hasan M
Special Papers
A Tenuous Stability: The State of Extremism in Bangladesh Since the Holey Artisan Café Terrorist Attack, USIP Special Paper (2022) (forthcoming)
Hasan M and Macdonald G
Commentaries
How Facebook Fuels Religious Violence in Bangladesh (2022)
Hasan M, Macdonald G and Ooi H
Book Chapters
The state and the construction of the ‘blasphemer’ in Bangladesh (2021)
Hasan M
in Transgressive Speech in a Globalised World, Stensvold A (ed)
Journal Articles
Radical Right Islamists in Bangladesh: A Counter-Intuitive Argument (2021)
Hasan M and Engelsen Rudd A
South-South Migration: Political Islam and Violent Extremism in the Shadow of Globalization in Bangladesh (2017)
Hasan M
Playing with Fire: Islamism and Politics in Bangladesh (2015)
Hasan M and Griffiths M
Islam, Islamism and Post- Islamism: Rediscovering Politics after the War on Terror (2014)
Hasan M, Griffiths M and Crowder G
The Geopolitics of Political Islam in Bangladesh (2012)
Hasan M
Political Islam and Democracy in Bangladesh (2011)
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Grants and Projects
2020 - Mapping the Landscape of Violent Extremism Projects in Bangladesh ( Sasakawa Peace Foundation)
2017 - Religious Identity and Violence among Bangladeshi youths ( RESOLVE Network)