David Jackman
David’s research focuses on the political economy of crime and violence in South Asia. He works particularly in Bangladesh and West Bengal, and has published on topics ranging from labour politics, syndicates and elections to beggar leaders and destitution.
He is the author of Syndicates and Societies: Criminal Politics in Dhaka (Cambridge University Press) and co-editor of Controlling the Capital: Political Dominance in the Urbanizing World (Oxford University World). He is currently writing a political history of the Sundarbans (the world’s largest mangrove forest) focusing on piracy.
David taught across the MPhil in Development Studies from 2019-2021, has a number of MPhil thesis supervisees and offers a Masters option course on the ‘Nexus of Violence, Crime and Politics in the Global South’.
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Books and monographs( ) Syndicates and Societies: Criminal Politics in Dhaka . , Cambridge University Press( ) Controlling the Capital: Political Dominance in the Urbanizing World . , Oxford University Press
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Journal articles and special issues( ) Discipline, Development, and Duress: The Art of Winning an Election in Bangladesh . Critical Asian Studies( ) Beggar bosses on the streets of Dhaka . Journal of Contemporary Asia( ) The Party-Police Nexus in Bangladesh . Journal of Development Studies( ) Allies among Enemies: Political authority and party (dis)loyalty in Bangladesh . Modern Asian Studies( ) Students, movements, and the threat to authoritarianism in Bangladesh . Contemporary South Asia( ) Violent intermediaries and political order in Bangladesh . The European Journal of Development Research 31 (4) 705-723( ) The decline of gangsters and politicization of violence in urban Bangladesh . Development and Change 50 (8) 1214-1238( ) Are ‘the destitute’ destitute? Understanding micro-inequalities through the concept of defiled surpluses . Environment and Urbanization 29 (1) 251-266
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Chapters( ) The Crocodiles Are Closing in: Everyday Life for a Local BNP Leader . In Arild Engelsen Ruud, Mubashar Hasan Masks of Authoritarianism: Hegemony, Power and Public Life in Bangladesh , Palgrave Macmillan( ) Identifying the political drivers of quality education: a comparative analysis . In S Hickey, N Hossain The politics of education in developing countries: from schooling to learning. , Oxford University Press( ) Towards a relational view of political violence . In Riaz, A. Nazneen, A. Zaman, F. Political Violence in South Asia , Routledge
