Department of Sociology
Faculty
Faculty of Liberal Arts and Social SciencesAddress
A/2, Jahurul Islam Avenue
Jahurul Islam City, Aftabnagar
Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh
- Master of Social Sciences (MSS) in Sociology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Bachelor of Social Sciences (BSS) in Sociology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
I am S M Anowarul Kayes Shimul, a senior lecturer (on study leave) at the Department of Sociology, East West University, Bangladesh, and (currently) a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Hawai'i. Trained (or training) as a sociologist in both (South) Asian and North American (also Pacific) contexts, my research broadly explores how technoscience, environment, and power relations intersect in everyday life.
I am critically attentive to the epistemic intersection of the Global North and the Global South, and I am particularly interested in how disjunctive global political and economic processes shape the lives and livelihoods of marginalized populations in Bangladesh. My recent projects include studies on male suicide in Bangladesh, labor unrest in the garment industry, and dispute resolution practices of inland water transport workers in Bangladesh.
I welcome academic collaborations and remain committed to socially engaged and methodologically rigorous sociology. See more on my website: https://sites.google.com/view/s-m-anowarul-kayes-shimul/
Employment Record
- July 07, 2021 - Present
Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, East West University, Bangladesh
- May 02, 2019 – July 06, 2021
Lecturer, Department of Sociology, East West University, Bangladesh
- September 2020- Present
Moderator, Sociology Club, East West University, Bangladesh
Research Experience
- February 2020- January 2021
Research Associate to Dr. Anisur Rahman Khan, Assistant Professor, East West University, Bangladesh
Research Project: Men, Masculinity, and Suicide in Jhenaidah District (funded by East West University Centre for Research and Training EWUCRT)
- September 2019-October 2019
Research Assistant to Dr. Ali Riaz, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Illinois State University, United States of America
Research Project: Examining the Nature and Scope of Social Cohesion in Bangladesh
- January 2018- December 2019
Research Assistant to Dr. Monirul I. Khan, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Research Project: Study to analyze the role of different authorities in industrial dispute settlement and developing comprehensive recommendations for RMG and the Water Transport Sector
Environmental Justice, Technoscience, Global Political Ecology
Shimul, S.M.A.K. (2023, June 25-July 1). How the Ready-Made Garment Workers of Bangladesh Mobilise Protest Movements at the Verge of Union Extinction? XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, Australia. https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2023/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/142333
Hussain, R. & Shimul, S. M. A. K. (2021, January 21-22) Women and the Transition across State Boundaries: The Warps and Woofs of National Labor Exporting Policies of Bangladesh and the Reality.Towards Reflexivity in Migration Studies: Knowledge Production in Times of Contested Politics and Post-Colonial Dynamics, Midterm Conference of ESA's Research Network 35 Sociology of Migration., Germany.
Shimul, S.M.A.K. (2020, December 25-26) Mobilization Awareness of the Female Garment Workers in Bangladesh for Establishing their Rights: Issues of Enthusiasm, Fear and Indignation. 2nd International Congress on Women and Politics in a Global World, İstanbul Ayvansaray University (İstanbul Ayvansaray Üniversitesi), Istanbul, Turkey.
Shimul, S. M. A. K., (2020, February 27-29) The Industrial Relation and Its Challenges in the Emerging Capitalist Society: A Case of the RMG sector in Bangladesh. 1st Multidisciplinary International Conference on the Social and Life Sciences, East West University, Bangladesh.
Khan A. R., Shimul, S. M. A. K. & Uddin, H. (2020, February 5-8) Demographic Risk Factors and Motives of Male Suicide in Bangladesh, 2018-2019. 7th International Conference on Public Administration and Development, Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre (BPATC), Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Shimul, S. M. A. K. (2019, December 18-19) Unique Strategies of Unionization of the Garment Workers in Bangladesh: Legal or Extralegal. INSEARCH-2019: 6th International Integrative Research Conference on Governance in Society, Business and Environment, Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD), Bangladesh.
Rahman Khan, A., & Shimul, S. A. K. (2024). Men’s Suicide in Bangladesh: Impressions From the Socio-Ecological System Theory. OMEGA-Journal of death and dying, 00302228241257135.
Khan A. R., Shimul, S. M. A. K., Ratele K. (2023). Psychological Perspective of Suicidal Behaviour in South Africa. Journal of Suicide Prevention, 5 (1), 3-16. http://isssp.ir/article-1-51-en.html
Hussain, R. & Shimul, S. M. A. K. (2023). Women migrant workers and their transition across state boundaries: Labour exporting policies of Bangladesh and the reality. (IPS Working Paper Series No.3). Hong Kong: Institute of Policy Studies, Lingnan University. doi: 10.14793/ipswp_03
Khan, A. R., Uddin, H., Shimul, S. M. A. K. and Billah, M. (2022). Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis and suicide in Bangladesh: Some explanations through Durkheim’s Sociology of Suicide. Journal of Community Positive Practices, (3), pp. 3-17. doi:10.35782/JCPP.2022.3.01.
Khan, A. R., Shimul, S. M. A. K., & Arendse, N. (2021). Suicidal behaviour and the coronavirus (COVID‐19) pandemic: Insights from Durkheim’s sociology of suicide. International social science journal, 71(S1), 7-21. https://doi.org/10.1111/issj.12269
Khan, A. R., Shimul, S. M. A. K., & Uddin, H. (2021). Demographic Risk Factors and Motives of Male Suicide in Bangladesh. Acta Counseling and Humanities, 2(1), 66–80.
Khan, A. R., & Shimul, S. M. A. K. (2020). Methodological Issues in Suicide Research in Bangladesh. Bangladesh Journal of Public Administration, 93–96. https://doi.org/10.36609/bjpa.v28i2.109
Khan, M. I., Shimul, S.M.A.K., (2020), Policy Brief on Industrial Dispute Settlement in the RMG and Inland Water Transport (IWT) Sectors of Bangladesh: Present Situation and Recommendations for Comprehensive Approach
2017 Master's in Social Science Research Grants, RDF- Resource Development Foundation
SOC106 Historical Sociology
SOC302 Social Structure of Bangladesh
SOC317 Sociology of Science and Technology
SOC319 Early Social Thought
July 2022- 2024 Member, Program Self-Assessment Committee (PSAC), Department of Sociology, East West University
