Books & Publications

Academic Writing · Poetry · Public Scholarship

Overview

My writing spans academic scholarship, poetry, and public-facing essays, reflecting a sustained engagement with questions of culture, power, memory, and everyday life. Across genres, I approach writing as a form of critical inquiry—whether through anthropological analysis, poetic expression, or reflective commentary.

My publications include peer-reviewed academic work, book chapters, and monographs, alongside published poetry books that explore personal, political, and social themes through literary form. While these modes of writing differ in style and audience, they are connected by a shared concern with meaning-making, social transformation, and ethical reflection.

This page brings together my published and ongoing work across academic and creative domains. Detailed publication lists are organized below by category, with selected highlights and works in progress included where relevant.

অন্যমনস্ক শরৎ
Jatiya Sahitya Prokashoni (জাতীয় সাহিত্য প্রকাশনী), 2010

This poetry collection explores introspection, emotional dislocation, and everyday sensibilities through a reflective and understated poetic voice. Written in Bangla, the book engages with personal experience while resonating with broader social and cultural undercurrents.

রাষ্ট্রের এক্সোডাস ও রুহানি ডিভোর্সের গল্প ০.১
Kashbon Prokashon (কাশবন প্রকাশন), 2025

This poetry volume reflects on political disillusionment, spiritual rupture, and collective memory in contemporary Bangladesh. Blending allegory, historical consciousness, and personal reflection, the book engages with themes of state power, faith, loss, and survival through a distinctly critical poetic lens.

Academic Publications

My academic writing focuses on digital culture, social movements, political anthropology, visual practices, and the public sphere, with a regional emphasis on Bangladesh and South Asia. My work appears in peer-reviewed journals, edited volumes, and research reports, and includes ongoing and forthcoming publications.

Book Chapters (Published / Accepted)

Chowdhury, Moiyen Zalal (2026) The Digital Landscape of Bangladesh: Transformative Socialities, Politics, and Culture in Sabiha Huq and Anindita Ghoshal, (Eds.) Routledge Handbook of Bangladesh, (In progress)

(Full bibliographic details will be updated upon publication.)

Chowdhury, Moiyen Zalal (2025) Post-Shahbag: The Rise of F-Commerce and Transformative Online “Islamic Public Sphere” in Bangladeshi Digital Space in Togawa Mashahiko (Eds.) Social Transformation and Multipolarization of Muslim Societies in South Asia: Toward an Integrated Understanding of Structural Change and Islamism in Bangladesh. Springer. (Accepted).

Chowdhury, Moiyen Zalal (2023) OTT-based Digital Sociality: An exploration of the viewership among Urban Youth in Bangladesh in Reza S. S. M, & Roy R. K. (Eds.) Television Publics in South Asia Mediated Politics and Culture. Delhi. Routledge. Retrieved from: https:// www.routledge.com/Television-Publics-in-South-Asia-Mediated-Politics-and-Culture/Reza-Roy/p/ book/9781032455976

Chowdhury, Moiyen Zalal (2022) The Resistance Sociality of the Shahbag Movement: The Role of Urban Youth as Online Activists in Minamide K. (Eds.) Millennial Generation in Bangladesh: Their Life Strategies, Movement, and Identity Politics. Dhaka. UPL. Retrieved from: http://www.uplbooks.com/book/millennial-generation-bangladesh-their-life- strategies-movement-and-identity-politics

Journal Articles

Chowdhury, Moiyen Zalal (2019), Tag You Out, Digital Activism in Glocal History: Social Media Localisation in Bangladesh. In P.K. Dandasena & G.Routa (Eds.), ATAVI, Study on Past, in Felicitation of Dr. Baba Mishra (pp. 37-49). Odisha: Department of History, Odisha Education Service College.

Chowdhury Moiyen Zalal (2019), Social Media Neoliberal Governmentality: Community/Network to Sociality, Jogajog, (Communication technology and new media), 13.

Chowdhury, Moiyen Zalal (2018), Social Media, Social Movement: Bangladesh’s Shahbag Movement and Hefazat-e-Islam. Bangabidya: International Journal of Bengal Studies, 10(Special Issue), 474-500.

Chowdhury Moiyen Zalal (2018), Deposition of a Social Media Ethnographer: Attack on Dr. Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, Journal of Anthropology, 23: 43-71

Sumon, M. H., & Chowdhury, Moiyen Zalal (2015), The “adivasi debate” in Bangla blogosphere: The case of Somewherein…blog, Journal of Anthropology, 20: 87-109. Review Status: Peer reviewed

Chowdhury Moiyen Zalal (2013), Right to Information in the Realm of Self- Censorship, Feedback, A Journal of Media and Communication, 1(1): 69-76. Review Status: Peer reviewed

Research Reports & Policy-Oriented Publications

• Chowdhury, M. Z. L. (2023). Perceptions of Stakeholders on Just Transition and Environmental Sustainability in the RMG Industry in Bangladesh. Funded by ETI Bangladesh.
• Chowdhury, M. Z. L. (Year). Digital precarity and platform labor in Bangladesh. Research project funded by RSGI, BRAC University. (Ongoing)

Working Papers & Projects in Development

• Digital social movements and the reconfiguration of the Bangladeshi public sphere
• Visual anthropology of protest, memory, and everyday life
• Misinformation, memes, and online political morality in South Asia