According to the Government of Bangladesh, there are fifty ethnic groups. Nineteen of those live in the northern area of Bangladesh. The ethnic communities are Santals, Orao, Rajbangshi, and Mushohor are a few of these names.
Published in Chapter:
Sustainable Development: An Unhappy Consciousness
Copyright: © 2024
|Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-2758-6.ch004
Abstract
This chapter discusses sustainable development as an unhappy consciousness and suggests ratifying the development process in Bangladesh. To the author, sustainable development has been an imperfect coupling word in the context of the ethnic groups of Bangladesh; now, this chapter analysed sustainable development through customs, income disparity, and social justice, availing Amartya Sen's ‘capability approach' to propose a framework for the inclusion community. Customary law is a sound and sustainable way to maintain social justice to ensure a sustainable community. Human behaviour, culture, attitudes, nature, supernatural power, values, norms, and traditions are all interlinked with growth and development in a country. Methodologically, it followed the ethnographic design and qualitative approach aligned with the post-positivism paradigm. This chapter suggests a sustainable community development framework as a policy recommendation and contextualizes global documents such as the SDGs, ILO 169, and UNDRIP to prioritize the lifeworld instead of the worldview.