Bert Suykens

Position: Associate Professor & Project Coordinator
Academic Interests:
Having conducted research on the Naxalite Movement and Bodo and Naga insurgencies in northeast India, my current research project tries to understand the role of violence in public-ordemaking in Bangladesh. I am also taking up the study of maoist martyrologies again. Other research interests include: rebel governance, performative politics, student politics and vernacular moralities.
Courses:
- Political Ethnography
- Research Practice and Fieldwork 1
- Research Practice and Fieldwork 2
- Research Practice and Fieldwork 3
- Area Study: South and Central Asia
- Society and current affairs: South Asia
Contact:
T +32(0)9 264 69 16
F +32(0)9 264 69 97
Website: researchgate.net
Current Research Projects:
- The political economy of river sand mining in South Asia: A commodity chain approach
- Dataset on political violence in Bangladesh
- Violence and Public order in urban Bangladesh
- The moral politics of violent death: martyrdrom and propaganda ontologies in Maoist India
Publications: Ghent University Academic Bibliography