Shapan Adnan
Shapan Adnan was educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Sussex. He has been on the teaching faculty of the National University of Singapore and the Universities of Dhaka and Chittagong, and has held visiting research positions at the University of Oxford.
His research activities are broadly in the fields of political economy and political sociology, much of it based on ethnographic fieldwork.
He has published on topics including
- agrarian structure and capitalist development;
- domination and resistance among the peasantry;
- alienation of lands of the peasantry and indigenous peoples;
- causes of ethnic conflict; determinants of fertility and migration;
- socio-economic and environmental impacts of development interventions; and
- critiques of flood control and water management.
His books include:
- Annotation of Village Studies in Bangladesh and West Bengal: A Review of Socio-Economic Trends Over 1942-88 (1990);
- Floods, People and the Environment: Institutional Aspects of Flood Protection Programmes in Bangladesh (1991);
- Migration, Land Alienation and Ethnic Conflict: Causes of Poverty in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh (2004);
- Alienation of the Lands of Indigenous Peoples in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh (2011, co-author).
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