School of Social Science

Dr Kazi Fattah

PhD Graduate

Qualifications:

  • BA (Hons) in English Literature from Dhaka University
  • MA in English Literature from Dhaka University
  • Master of Development Studies from BRAC University

Experience:

I have more than fifteen years of professional experience including eleven years as a community development practitioner and four years as a media and communications professional. For the past eight years I have been working at BRAC in Bangladesh in different capacities involving development intervention planning and design, programme and project management, fund mobilisation, research and knowledge management, and strategy development. I have played key roles in the planning and implementation of small to large scale programmes/projects in Bangladesh funded by UKAID, DFAT, CIDA, the World Bank, UNDP, UNDEF and other institutional and corporate donors. Prior to starting my PhD at the University of Queensland I was the head of urban development at BRAC.

My area of expertise includes community organising, women empowerment, addressing violence against women and children, strengthening local governance, civic engagement, and urban development in Bangladesh. 

Research Interests:

  • Urban informality and governance in Southern cities
  • Governmentality
  • Violence against women and children
  • Civic engagement
  • Community development
Featured projects Duration
Governing the informal: Frontier governmentality in a Southern megacity
 2016–2021

Publications

Book Chapter (1)
Journal Articles (13)
Conference Papers (6)
Thesis (1)
Generic Document (1)

Book Chapter

Rafi, Mohammad, Fattah, Kazi Nazrul, Naomi, Sharin Shahajahan and Minj, Anna (2016). Community empowerment and local governance. Driving development: A story of BRAC's evolution and effectiveness. (pp. 183-203) edited by Mahabub Hossain, Shib Narayan Kairy and Abdul Bayes. Dhaka, Bangladesh: The University Press Limited.

Journal Articles

Fattah, Kazi Nazrul and Walters, Peter (2023). Engaging with informality and the subaltern in overlooked cities: towards an agenda for climate change research in the Global South. Climate and Development, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1-8. doi: 10.1080/17565529.2023.2277245
Fattah, Kazi Nazrul (2023). NGOs, CBOs, and the contested politics of community-driven development in urban informal settlements. Community Development, 55 (3), 369-385. doi: 10.1080/15575330.2023.2204442
Fattah, Kazi Nazrul (2023). Toilers of the shipyard: a visual account of the working lives of Dhaka’s shipyard workers. Visual Communication Quarterly, 30 (1), 44-56. doi: 10.1080/15551393.2022.2160983
Fattah, Kazi Nazrul and Walters, Peter (2023). Locating agency at the urban grassroots: resistance and reworking in the everyday politics of informal settlements. Geoforum, 141 103703, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103703
Fattah, Kazi Nazrul (2022). Informal housing residents’ well-being in cities of the Global North and South: a reply to ‘Informal housing’ by Quintana Vigiola. Global Discourse, 12 (2), 309-312. doi: 10.1332/204378921x16311420506212
Camellia, Suborna and Fattah, Kazi Nazrul (2021). Torn between two worlds: unsettled sense of place and belongingness between old and new homelands during a global pandemic. Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 17 (1-2), 62-66. doi: 10.5130/pjmis.v17i1-2.7418
Fattah, Kazi Nazrul and Camellia, Suborna (2020). Poverty, dowry and the 'good match': revisiting community perceptions and practices of child marriage in a rural setting in Bangladesh. Journal of Biosocial Science, 54 (1), 1-15. doi: 10.1017/s0021932020000668
Fattah, Kazi Nazrul (2020). Bihari Muharram processions in Dhaka city: religious performance as a means of territorialising urban public space by a disenfranchised ethnic minority. Visual Studies, 35 (2-3), 1-8. doi: 10.1080/1472586x.2020.1772103
Fattah, Kazi Nazrul and Walters, Peter (2020). “A Good Place for the Poor!” Counternarratives to territorial stigmatisation from two informal settlements in Dhaka. Social Inclusion, 8 (1), 55-65. doi: 10.17645/si.v8i1.2318
Fattah, Kazi Nazrul (2018). Towards inclusive cities in Bangladesh: Are policies sufficient to promote inclusiveness?. South Asia Journal (Special Issue 2018), 134-141.
Fattah, Kazi Nazrul and Camellia, Suborna (2017). Gender norms and beliefs, and men’s violence against women in rural Bangladesh. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 35 (3-4), 088626051769087-793. doi: 10.1177/0886260517690875
Fattah, Kazi Nazrul (2016). Right to information (RTI) legislation: the role of infomediaries in enhancing citizens’ access to information. Development in Practice, 26 (1), 3-14. doi: 10.1080/09614524.2016.1119248
Fattah, Kazi Nazrul and Kabir, Zarina Nahar (2013). No place is safe: Sexual abuse of children in rural Bangladesh. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 22 (8), 901-914. doi: 10.1080/10538712.2013.841310

Conference Papers

Fattah, Kazi Nazrul (2019). Governing from below: grassroots governmentality in Dhaka’s urban informal settlements. RC21 Conference, Delhi, India, 18-21 September 2019.
Fattah, Kazi Nazrul (2019). Resistance and reworking: the everyday politics of informal settlements in a Southern megacity. The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Conference 2019, Sydney, Australia, 25-28 November 2018.
Fattah, Kazi Nazrul (2018). Power and resistance: the contested politics of community led development in an informal settlement in Dhaka. 25th World Congress of International Political Science Association (IPSA), Brisbane, Australia, 22-25 July 2018.
Fattah, Kazi Nazrul (2018). Governmentality at the grassroots: producing knowledge and spatial order in Dhaka’s informal settlements. The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Conference 2018, Melbourne, Australia, 19-22 November 2018.
Fattah, Kazi Nazrul (2015). Engaging multi-sectoral partners for creating opportunities, improving wellbeing and realising rights of the urban poor: BRAC’s approach to urban development in Bangladesh. 6th Asia Pacific Urban Forum, Jakarta, Indonesia, 19-21 October 2015.
Fattah, Kazi Nazrul (2011). Active citizens and accountable local government: experience from Bangladesh. 10th CIVICUS World Assembly, Montreal, Canada, 10-12 September 2011.

Thesis

Fattah, Kazi Nazrul (2021). Everyday politics and the negotiations of citizenship in the informal city: An ethnographic account of two informal settlements in Dhaka. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/e42e187

Generic Document

Butcher, Stephanie, Das, Joyati, Dam, Jennifer, Fattah, Kazi and Hausmann, Susanna (2020). Evidence to Action (E2A) framework: a participatory approach to action learning. Connected Cities Lab, University of Melbourne.