Dr. Bablu ChakmaWissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Bablu Chakma is an Indigenous scholar from the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), Bangladesh. He is currently working as a research associate (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Fulda University of Applied Sciences under the research project “Shaping Future Society: The Mutual Constitution of Future-oriented Practices and Community”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). He completed his PhD in International Development Studies from the Institute of Development Research and Development Policy (IEE), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. He has over five years of experience as a scholar-activist. His research interests include future and utopian studies, survival strategies, everyday politics, human rights, social movements, armed conflict, critical agrarian studies, identity politics, and Indigenous Peoples’ issues in general. He can be reached at bablu.chakma(at)sk.hs-fulda.de.