1. Fardous Ara is a professor in the Department of Public Administration at Rajshahi University in Bangladesh. She has co-authored several publications on the political participation of women in Bangladesh.
2. Rajshahi University, Rajshahi, Bangladesh and Murdoch University, Murdoch, Australia
3. Jeremy Northcote is a lecturer in Sociology at Murdoch University in Australia. He is the author of numerous articles on health, youth, religion, immigration and tourism. [e-mail: ]