Moral Economy

Bangladesh: Culture, Faith & Everyday Life | Critical Essays | Digital Politics & Public Sphere | Gender & Society | Political Anthropology | Public Writing

When Moral Economy Replaces the State
Bymoiyenzalal.com@gmail.com February 3, 2026February 5, 2026

This essay examines how prolonged state failure and authoritarian governance in Bangladesh have transformed moral economy into a primary structure of survival, legitimacy, and power. It argues that women’s authority has not disappeared but has been recomposed into moral, financial, and digital infrastructures that sustain everyday life beyond the state.

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Bangladesh: Culture, Faith & Everyday Life | Public Writing

Serial Killing, Rarity, and the Question of Recognition
Bymoiyenzalal.com@gmail.com January 23, 2026January 23, 2026

A brief anthropological note Recent discussions around serial killing in Bangladesh have raised an important but easily misunderstood question. The issue is not whether serial killing is widespread—it is not—but how certain forms of violence become recognizable as patterns in the first place. In Bangladesh, identified cases of serial killing remain rare. That is a…

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Critical Essays | Digital Dependency & Moral Volatility | Digital Society, Work & AI

Digital Dependency and Moral Decline: How Social Media Reshapes Society
Bymoiyenzalal.com@gmail.com January 21, 2026January 21, 2026

How dopamine-driven social media addiction is reshaping offline behavior, morality, youth culture, and intergenerational ethics—globally and in Bangladesh.

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Digital Politics & Public Sphere

Bodies, Belief, and Power: Public Assemblies in Contemporary Bangladesh
Bymoiyenzalal.com@gmail.com January 5, 2026January 5, 2026

“An anthropological reading of public assemblies in post–July 2024 Bangladesh, examining how presence, legitimacy, and institutional fragility interact.”

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