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: 

• State and society in Asia
• Society and current affairs: South Asia

Contact: 

T +32(0)9 264 69 16

F +32(0)9 264 69 97

bert.suykens@ugent.be

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: martyrdom and propaganda ontologies in Maoist India

Projects under supervision

• Local government elections and electoral violence in Bangladesh (contact: Krishna Kumar Saha)
• Landlessness and resistance in the Phulbari coal project, Bangladesh (contact: Mohammad Atique Rahman)
• The political economy of river sand mining in South Asia: A commodity chain approach (Saumya Pandey)

Publications: Ghent University Academic Bibliography