Md Nazmul Islam Presented A Paper at The Scientific Studies Association

MD NAZMUL ISLAM PRESENTED A PAPER ON “URBANIZATION WITHOUT DEVELOPMENT - EXODUS OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC INEQUALITY, RAPID URBAN GROWTH AND POVERTY IN LEAST DEVELOPED MUSLIM COUNTRIES (LDMC): A CASE STUDY ON DHAKA CITY OF BANGLADESH” AT THE SCIENTIFIC STUDIES ASSOCIATION (ILEM), 2018

AYBU congratulates to Md. Nazmul ISLAM, PhD Candidate of the Faculty of Political Science at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, who presented his academic article by participating in the 5. International ILEM Summer School (IISS) in Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University on 9-14 July 2018 with the cooperation of ILEM and YTB. The theme of the congress was defined as "Urban Crisis and Trends in the Muslim World". The 5th International ILEM Summer School seeks to raise questions for way out about what types of cities and living spaces should be offered to Muslim World in the contemporary period. Important cases, existing facts and new experiences has been discussed in various conferences, lectures and workshops under following subtitles: Memory, Modernity and Power. Regarding to Muslim’s tradition and intellectual heritage, this heading was on the agenda to find sustainable solutions to contemporary environmental and urban crises in the Muslim world. Researchers around the world has been shared their ideas and great intellectual experience during this annual event

Doctoral Candidate MD Nazmul Islam presented studies entitled of “Urbanization without Development - Exodus of Socio-Economic Inequality, Rapid Urban Growth and Poverty in Least Developed Muslim Countries (LDMC): A Case Study on Dhaka City of Bangladesh” where he shows on the trends of globalization and the legacy of colonialism massive impacts on Muslim world especially the capital city of third world and the least developed Muslim countries based on the UN least developed country list including Kabul of Afghanistan, Dhaka of Bangladesh, Mogadishu of Somalia and Khartoum of Sudan. His study articulates the general overview of geography, population and city structure of these four least developed Muslim countries which are carried out the consistency and process of urbanization without development to comprehend socio-economic inequality, poverty and rapid urban growth. However, the main emphasis of his paper is to find out that whether urbanization process is a tool of development for least developed Muslim countries (LDMC) or not. His paper basically argues on case analysis of the development structure of Dhaka city of Bangladesh where causal explanation was simplified to identify reasons- why Dhaka city lost its position where hypothesis to be shaped by the extent of political development of the country caused socio-economic inequality in Dhaka city, the massive migration from rural area of Bangladesh due to both of domestic and foreign investment in Dhaka city, and in turn to result in lower subjective well-being here. Mr. Islam study addresses the question as to whether and why rapid urban growth, poverty and socio-economic inequality impact the degree of Dhaka city populations’ subjective well-being and urbanization without progress and development. In order to elaborate a more satisfactory explanation, he take into account at least two more factors: occupational aspirations and economic capitals of Dhaka city. The methodology of his study is based on both in qualitative and quantitative to find out the actual data of socio-economic inequality, rapid urban growth and poverty in Dhaka city.

Recently, Mr. Md. Nazmul ISLAM went to the Europa Institute, Saarland University, Germany as a visiting researcher and research fellow.