← All Researchers
Dr Mubashar Hasan
Research Member

Dr Mubashar Hasan

Dr Mubashar Hasan, Adjunct Research Fellow

Western Sydney University

Contact

mubashar.hasan@westernsydney.edu.au

Institution

Western Sydney University

Research Areas

ReligionIdentityViolenceCVESouth AsiaBangladesh.

Dr. Mubashar Hasan is an adjunct research fellow at the Humanitarian and Development Research Initiative (HADRI). His research interests include CVE, Radical Right, Authoritarianism, and religion-based violence in Muslim societies and Muslim diaspora in the West. He is the author of the book Islam and Politics: Followers of Ummah ( Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Dr. Hasan is the lead editor of the book Radicalization in South Asia: Context, Trajectories and Implications (Sage, 2019) and also co-edited the book Masks of Authoritarianism: Hegemony, Power and Public Life in Bangladesh (Palgrave Macmillan 2022). He is a member of the Research Advisory Council at the RESOLVE Network.

Key Publications

Books

Islam and Politics in Bangladesh: The Followers of Ummah (2020)Hasan M
The Language of Youth Politics in Bangladesh: Beyond the Secular-Religious Binary (2017)Hasan M
How Facebook Fuels Religious Violence in Bangladesh (2022)Hasan M, Macdonald G and Ooi H

Book Chapters

The state and the construction of the ‘blasphemer’ in Bangladesh (2021)in Transgressive Speech in a Globalised World, Stensvold A (ed)Hasan M
Journal Articles
Radical Right Islamists in Bangladesh: A Counter-Intuitive Argument (2021)Hasan M and Engelsen Rudd A
South-South Migration: Political Islam and Violent Extremism in the Shadow of Globalization in Bangladesh (2017)Hasan M
Playing with Fire: Islamism and Politics in Bangladesh (2015)Hasan M and Griffiths M
Islam, Islamism and Post- Islamism: Rediscovering Politics after the War on Terror (2014)Hasan M, Griffiths M and Crowder G
The Geopolitics of Political Islam in Bangladesh (2012)Hasan M

Grants and Projects

2020 - Mapping the Landscape of Violent Extremism Projects in Bangladesh ( Sasakawa Peace Foundation)
2017 - Religious Identity and Violence among Bangladeshi youths ( RESOLVE Network)