Habibul Khondker
Professor
- Email: Habibul.khondker@zu.ac.ae
- Telephone: +97102-599 3850
- Address: Abu Dhabi - Khalifa City, Abu Dhabi Campus, FF 1-1-53
Introduction
Habibiul Haque Khondker, PhD (Pittsburgh) is professor of Social Sciences at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE and a scholar of globalization studies. He is the Co-Chair of Research Committee 9 (Social Transformations and Sociology of Development) of the International Sociological Association. Khondker, a Bangladesh-born sociologist has taught sociology and related fields for over three decades. He has published articles on globalization, glocalization, migration governance, state and secularism, nationalism, and various development issues in such international journals as Journal of Consumer Culture, International Sociology, International Sociology Review, Protosociology, The British Journal of Sociology, Current Sociology, International Migration, Globalizations, Armed Forces and Society, Asian Journal of Social Sciences, South Asia among others. Among his leading publications are: Globalization: East/West. (Sage, 2010; Turkish translation, 2018). with Bryan Turner. The Middle East and the 21st Century Globalization. (Dubai and Abu Dhabi: Zayed University Press, 2010) co-edited with Jan Nederveen Pieterse, and Asia and Europe in Globalization: Continents, Regions, and Nations (Brill 2006) co-edited with Goran Therborn.
Khondker received the outstanding faculty award at Zayed University in 2013-14. Khondker, a recipient of prestigious Andrew Mellon Fellowship as a graduate student also received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Sociology in 2012.
Khondker was interviewed for a series titled, “Journeys through Sociology”, hosted by International Sociological Association at its website. 16 September 2011. Also available in YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYGtZAvf0Uc
Roles and Responsibilities
Khondker leads the Bengali translation team of Global Dialogue, a publication of the International Sociological Association.
He is also the Editor-in-chief of the South Asian Journal of Social Sciences.
Khondker is on the editorial and editorial advisory board of several international journals including the Journal of Sociology, The Journal of the Australian Sociological Association.
Member, Board of Directors, Global Development Network
Member, Governing Body, Shiekh Zayed Bangladesh Islamia School, Abu Dhabi
Member of the Advisory Board of the South Asian Institute of Social Transformation (SAIST)
Qualifications
PhD (1985) University of Pittsburgh, USA
MA (1978) Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
BA, MA (1975) University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Memberships
International
Sociological Association
Association of Asian Studies
International Convention of Asia Scholars
Languages
English, Bengali, Hindi and Urdu
Informal Interests
Movies, Cricket, Playing Harmonica
Research and Professional Activities
Research interests:
Global studies, migration, glocal processes, political-economy of development and state, governance, migration diplomacy, and Asian globalization.
Current Projects: Managlobal: management in glocal context, European Union, Horizon 2020 project, Principal Investigator: Professor Ulrike Schukerns, University of Rennes, France.
Role of migrants in social and economic transformation in the host as well as the origin countries (for World Migration Report 2020, International Office of Migration)
Keywords: globalization, glocalization, migration, governance
Teaching Areas
Undergraduate: Introduction to Culture and Society; Popular Cultures of the World; Comparative Intellectual Traditions; Comparative Sociology; The State, Society, and the Economy; World Regions: South Asia; and
Graduate: HSS613-C Area Studies: East Asia; EMPA505 Quantitative and IT Methods for Public Policy; EMPA506 Applied Research Method in Public Policy
Books
Khondker, H (2023) Mobility and Globalization in Globalization: Past, Present, and Future, Edited by Manfred Steger et al. Press of the University of California. 2023 pp. 59 – 73.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/9780520395770-006
Asian Globalization (in progress) (Edward Elgar, London, UK)] 2024
The Emergence of Bangladesh: Interdisciplinary Perspective edited with Olav Muurlink and Asif Bin Ali (Palgrave, 2022)
Covid-19 Governance edited with Jan Nederveen Pieterse and Haeran Lim, New York: Routledge 2021
Journal Articles (Refereed)
Temporary Migrant Workers in Transnational Space: Possible Blind Spots in Social Inequality Research, in
Zanj: The Journal of Critical Global South Studies. (forthcoming)
Review Essay: A Few Good Men: Economists in Public Service in South Asia
Asian Journal of Social Science, Brill, April 2023
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajss.2023.03.010
State and Covid-19 Response in the Asian Tiger Economies: Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore, Comparative Sociology (Brill) 20 (2021) 695 – 717.
doi:10.1163/15691330-bja10043
The post-pandemic world and the prospect for global justice: a commentary, Globalizations
Published online: 26 Aug 2021
Eurasian Globalization in Globalizations, (2021) 18 (5) pp. 707 - 719
DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2020.1842085
Book Chapters
Khondker, H (2023) Mobility and Globalization in Globalization: Past, Present, and Future,
Edited by Manfred Steger et al. Press of the University of California. 2023
Khondker, H (2023) “Globalization of Sociology and the Sociology of Globalization”. Chapter 14 in Indian Sociology: Theories, Domains and Emerging Concerns. Edited by B.K. Nagla and Kameshwar Chaudhary. Springer, 2023.
Khondker, H (2023) “Modern Law, Traditional “Shalish” and Civil Society Activism in Bangladesh,” in A. Possami, JT Richardson and B. Turner (eds) The Sociology of Shari’a: Case Studies from Around the World. New York: Springer, 2023 [2014], pp. 31 – 49. (A revised chapter in the revised edition of the same book).
Khondker, H. (2023) “Contributions of Syed Hussein Alatas towards Global Sociology” in D. J. Byrd and S. J. Miri (Eds) Syed Hussein Alatas and Critical Social Theory: Decolonizing the Captive Mind, Leiden, Brill. Pp. 395 – 419.
Khondker, H (2022) “Glocal identities in the Arabian Gulf: Narratives of Bangladeshi Third Culture Kids” Chapter in a book on Linguistic Identity in the Gulf Region edited by Waffa Zoghbor and Sarah Hopkyns London: McMillan- Palgrave
Khondker, H (2022) “Glocal Sports” in Handbook of Glocalization and Culture, Edited by Victor Roudometof Ugo Dessi, and Giampietro Gobo, E. Elgar
Khondker, H. (2022) “Eurasian Globalization: Past and Present” Chapter 3 in Barry Axford (ed) Why Globalization Matters: Engaging with Theory. London: Routledge
ISBN 9781032056302
Khondker, H. (2021) “Globality and Global Morality” in Peter Bayer (Ed) Globalization / Glocalization: Developments in Theory and Application Essays in Honor of Roland Robertson (Brill, 2021) pp. 179 – 202.
