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Adnan Hossain

University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Adnan Hossain is an interdisciplinary social scientist with interest and expertise in gender and sexual diversity, masculinities, transgender and intersex studies, heterosexualities, race and ethic relations, body politics, nationalism, decolonization, postcolonial studies, cricket, epistemology and global inequalities in knowledge production. He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Bangladesh, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana. He is the author of ‘Beyond emasculation: Pleasure and Power in the Making of Hijra in Bangladesh' (Cambridge University Press, 2021 and Badhai: Hijra-Khwaja Sira-Trans Performances across Borders in South Asia collaboratively authored with scholars across boundaries of disciplines (Methuen drama, a Bloomsbury imprint, 2022). He was a European Research Council-funded postdoctoral fellow at the University of Amsterdam. He held visiting fellowships at Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS) at the university of the west indies, St. Augustine campus and at Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality (ARC-GS) at the University of Amsterdam. Prior to joining the university of Glasgow, Adnan Hossain was an assistant professor of gender studies and critical theory at Utrecht University.

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