Browsing by Author "Bosu, SP"

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Impact of land area change on the livelihood of farmers of coastal Bangladesh: a case study on Bhola
(2017) Bosu, SP; Kobir, S
Bangladesh is exposed to disasters mainly due to her topographical location. Calamities such as floods, river bank erosion, cyclone, tornado, cold waves, arsenic contamination in ground water, water logging, salinity intrusion etc. are gradually intensifying by climate change and combining risks for the coastal people in Bangladesh. Such calamity took peals less in lives but more in livelihood as agricultural land and homesteads along with other livelihood options which are banished. The current study is concerned with climate change related menaces and risks that affects the occupants of coastal Bangladesh. The study outcomes revealed that the climate change has gradually affected the livelihood of coastal people in many aspects including losses and damage in crop cultivation, inadequacy of pure drinking water, extreme poverty, homestead land and natural assets etc. It has also generated a state of unemployment among the people of coastal communities. As a consequence, the affected people are losing their means of livelihoods and enforced to take numerous alternative means of livelihoods to cope with the adverse impact of climate change related catastrophes. The study detects the alternative adaptation strategies adapted by the affected coastal inhabitants in coastal Bangladesh. The present paper unveils that the coastal community people try to solve their problems through adopting and exploring alternative employments.
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Ordinary heritage: a case of Boro Bazaar, Khulna
(2017) Podder, AK; Hakim, SS; Bosu, SP
The motives behind the selection of heritage buildings for conservation are conventionally founded on an elitist sense of historicity and romantic nostalgia of the past. This paper argues that such an approach has a tendency to be temporally rigid, object focused and exoticism biased. Often many of the buildings selected as heritage are those built by extensive labour, expensive materials and wealthy patrons. Little, however, has been explored on the relation between heritage and aspects of ordinary life, where, in many cases, the latter continue to infuse meaning into the former’s present heritage status. This paper uses a non-participant observational lens to examine an old market tissue in Khulna, an ex-colonial city in Bangladesh and proposes a new notion called ‘ordinary heritage’. Ordinary heritage, as this paper argues, relies on historically persistent socio-economic transactions of the common and the ordinary in their everyday and occasional pursuit for livelihood. These transactions of ordinary people, which are also temporally non-static and evolving, take place within and around the architecture of the built environment, making the production of architecture to be fluid, dynamic and most importantly temporary. It forces architecture to constantly evolve, while negotiating the aspiration, need, aesthetic and reasoning of ordinary subjects. Ordinary heritage thus manifest as a socio-spatial-temporal assemblage innate to an urban tissue that runs as a single organism.