The rational believer : choices and decisions in the madrasas of Pakistan by Bano, M

“…The monograph draws on eighteen-month long fieldwork across eight-districts of Pakistan, covering 100 madrasas. …”

The rational believer : choices and decisions in the madrasas of Pakistan by Bano, M

“…The monograph draws on eighteen-month long fieldwork across eight-districts of Pakistan, covering 100 madrasas. …”

Religion and female empowerment: evidence from Pakistan and northern Nigeria by Bano, M

“…Drawing on a new dataset on girls from madrasas and secular schools in Pakistan and northern Nigeria, and on ethnographic fieldwork, this article problematises this assumption. …”

Skills development and international development agenda setting: lessons from an intervention in northern Nigeria by Bano, M

“…Skills development remains on the international development agenda but fails to get adequate attention. Based on prolonged fieldwork with a particularly marginalised community of children and young adults in the northern Nigerian state of Kano, this article shows how in contexts of extreme poverty the demand for skills training can supersede that for basic education. …”

Buying consent: the Achilles' heel of aid-induced community participation by Bano, M

“…Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with the Orangi Pilot Project (OPP) in Pakistan, a well-known case of organic community participation, this article demonstrates that the ability to buy consent in the case of donor-funded projects erodes the capacity for real community negotiations to take place. …”

Late bloomers’ politics: the rise of Muslim citizenship politics and the case of the popular front of India by Emmerich, A

“…Drawing on qualitative fieldwork undertaken since 2011, this thesis is predominately concerned with Muslim activists, and members and affiliates of the Popular Front of India (PFI), a growing Muslim minority movement. …”

In Extremis: Exploring gender, faith, and identity in the experiences of young South Asian British Muslim women who have joined or considered joining violent or non-violent extremi... by Washington, K

“…Embedded in a feminist research framework, I draw on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews conducted between 2017-2018 to centre the voices of the women in the academic research that focuses on their lives. …”