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.
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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: 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