{"id":1297,"date":"2015-12-07T13:18:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T03:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2015-12-07T13:40:54","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T03:40:54","slug":"qut-justice-postgraduate-prize-for-paper-on-prostitution-in-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/2015\/12\/07\/qut-justice-postgraduate-prize-for-paper-on-prostitution-in-bangladesh\/","title":{"rendered":"QUT Justice Postgraduate Student Wins Prize for Paper on Prostitution in Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Last week,\u00a0Habiba Sultana \u00a0was presented with the New Zealand Asian Studies Society (NZASS) Conference Postgraduate Prize for her paper <em>\u2018Sex as \u2018work\u2019: the Bangladeshi Context.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Habiba, who has been completing a PhD fill-time with the School of Justice since 2014, said the prize topped a big year in which she also published two papers in international journals. The prize, which included cash, a\u00a0one year\u00a0subscription to the NZASS and its journal, now in its eighteenth year of production, also includes an invitation from the editor to submit the winning paper for review and possible publication.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0The paper drew on fieldwork Habiba carried out in a Bangladeshi brothel in 2014.\u00a0 Habiba stated \u201cmuch of what we know about sex work is derived from Western perspectives, but the structure of the sex industry in Bangladesh is very distinct from that encountered elsewhere.\u00a0 My work attempts to account for the everyday, lived experiences of women in the brothel, which I hope will contribute to the feminist literature from a South Asian or \u2018Southern\u2019 perspective\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1298 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2015\/12\/HS-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"HS\" width=\"325\" height=\"247\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Habiba Sultana (right) with Professor Tanika Sarkar of Jawaharlal Nehru University.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week,\u00a0Habiba Sultana \u00a0was presented with the New Zealand Asian Studies Society (NZASS) Conference Postgraduate Prize for her paper \u2018Sex as \u2018work\u2019: the Bangladeshi Context. Habiba, who has been completing a PhD fill-time with the School of Justice since 2014, said the prize topped a big year in which she also published two papers in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9697,3,9696],"tags":[4306,9776,406],"class_list":{"0":"post-1297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-conferences","8":"category-news","9":"category-publications","10":"tag-phd","11":"tag-postgraduate","12":"tag-student"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1301,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions\/1301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}