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Shelley Feldman

Professor

Primary Research Areas

  • development sociology
  • family
  • gender and sexuality
  • international agriculture
  • international development

Graduate Fields

Research Focus

I am currently involved in a series of projects that integrate the above substantive theme. These projects include analyses of: 1) the (post) colonial East Pakistani state and its role in the construction of ethnic and regional identities, 2) moral regulation, fundamentalist practice, and regimes of gender control, 3) border formations and processes of displacement/exclusion, 4) the salience of human capabilities as a model of economic development, 5) micro-credit and informality as neo-liberal reform, and 6) militarism as the expression of current social relations.

Selected Publications

PubMed Listings
  • Shelley Feldman and Paul Gellert. "The Seductive Quality of Central Human Capabilities: Sociological Insights into Nussbaum and Sen's Disagreement. " Economy and Society 35(August): 423-452. 2006
  • Governance NGOs and Development, in Handbook of International Development Governance, Huque, A. S. and H. Zafarullah eds. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc. 2005
  • Desi Larson Child Labor in Bangladesh in Traver, E., Larson, D., and Schmitz, C. eds. Child Labor, World View of Social Issues Series, Greenwood Publishing. 2004
  • Bangladesh, Pp. 57-83 in Women's Issues in Asia, Manish Desai ed., Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing. 2003
  • Paradoxes of Institutionalization: The Depoliticisation of Bangladeshi NGOs. " Development in Practice 13.1(February): 5-26. 2003
  • Shelley Feldman, Charles Geisler, and Louise Silberling, "Moving Targets: Displacement, Impoverishment, and Development: An Introduction. " International Social Science Journal, ISSJ, No. 175: March 2003. 2003
  • "Bengali State and Nation Making: Partition and Displacement Revisited. " International Social Science Journal, ISSJ, No. 175: March 2003. 2003
  • Shelley Feldman and Kamal Siddiqui, Dhaka, The Capital of Bangladesh. The Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures, Human Relations Area Files, Inc. 2002
  • "Exploring Theories of Patriarchy: A Perspective from Contemporary Bangladesh. " SIGNS 26.4: 1097-1127. 2001
  • Metaphor and Myth: Gender and Islam in Bangladesh, In Essays on the Muslims of Bengal. Rafiuddin Ahmed, ed. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2001
  • "Response to Oded Stark. " Economic Development and Cultural Change 48.4 (July 2000): 889-891. 2000