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Pathways South Asia Synthesis Report 2006-2011 (pdf 1 MB)

Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Special Issue on ‘Complex Terrains: Islam, Culture and Women in Asia’, edited by Firdous Azim

This issue brings together articles presented at a panel organised by the Pathways South Asia Hub at the IACS 2009 Conference in Tokyo as well as contributions from other scholars.

Vol. 12, No. 2, 2011
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies

Stories of Change
We are delighted to share that BEGINNING Productions has made available online the video documentary "Stories of Change" which was produced by the Pathways South Asia Hub. The documentary highlights the real-life journeys of five women, who are from different generations, occupations, backgrounds and regions of Bangladesh. Their stories can be viewed in five short film clips on You Tube.

South Asia Hub

Woman enjoying the rain

The South Asia Hub is based at the BRAC Development Institute of BRAC University, Bangladesh:

Convenor: Maheen Sultan

Pathways of Women's Empowerment
BRAC Development Institute
BRAC University
Aarong House, 19th floor
66 Mohakhali C/A
Dhaka 1212
Bangladesh

Photo/Sheikh Rajibul Islam

Team Members:

Firdous Azim
Perween Hasan (Dhaka University)
Naomi Hossain (IDS Sussex)
Samia Huq
Naila Kabeer (SOAS, London)
Mohammed Kamruzzaman
Sahida Islam Khondaker
Simeen Mahmud
Amena Mohsin (Dhaka University)
Sohela Nazneen
Samsoon Noor
Zarina Rahman Khan (Dhaka University)
Samia Afroz Rahim (Communications Officer)
Aanmona Priyadarshini
Sakiba Tasneem

Pakistan:
Neelam Hossain (Simorgh)
Ayesha Khan (Collective for Social Science Research)
Saba Gul Khattak

Afghanistan:
Naysan Adhparvar

Partners:

University of Dhaka
University of Delhi
Collective for Social Science Research, Pakistan
Simorgh
Women for Women International

See Snapshot of our Hub

Research

This research strategy emerges from the starting point of an overarching rationale for comparative intra-regional enquiry and the common majority Muslim identity in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan, countries with very different recent histories, to explore everyday understandings of Islam and gender equality through a comparative framework. The divergences in the experiences of state society relations in Bangladesh and Pakistan provide the overarching framework for comparative research, in terms of how they have given rise to different understandings of body, voice and paid work. Work is used as the primary entry point.

Gendered Impacts of BRAC and WFW Microfinance Programming on Hazara Women in Kabul, Afghanistan

Changing Images of Women Photo Exhibition

Changing Narratives of Empowerment in Pakistan: Trajectories of Desire and the Mediation of Socio-Cultural Spaces

Cultural History of Bengali Muslim Women

Exploring New Mediums for Understanding Empowerment and Reaching a Wider Audience

Mobilising Resources for Women's Organisations

National Discourses on Women's Empowerment: Enabling or Constraining Women's Choices

Paid Work and Women's Empowerment

Review of Strategic Approaches to Building Constituencies by Women's Organisations

Social Change through Video Production in the Chittagong Hill Tracts

Sustainable Security and Peacebuilding as Pathways of Women's Empowerment

Lady Health Workers in Pakistan

Women Health Workers in Bangladesh

Women in Local Government in Bangladesh

Women in Local Government in Pakistan

Religion and Women in Bangladesh

Women in the ‘Right’?: Women in Religious Political Groups in Bangladesh

Media and Women in Bangladesh