Utilities
Downloads and Resources
Every file the platform offers for download: framework diagrams, templates, and the bibliography for reference managers.
In this sectionUtilities
The files are generated from the platform’s data each time the site is published, so they always match what is on the site. Diagrams and templates are editorial, and are not instruments issued by the founder.
Framework Diagrams
- The ten contextual layers and their relationsSVG
The ten layers on a ring, joined by the relations proposed between them.
Interpretation Awaiting the founder’s approval
- Scales of contextSVG
Universal values, regional ideas, the neighbourhood and the site, after Reza (2023).
Editorial summary Awaiting the founder’s approval
- Read, Plan, ProcessSVG
The three phases named by Reza and Nitu (2025), with the ten layers that structure the reading.
Editorial summary Awaiting the founder’s approval
- Relations between the layersCSV
The relations behind the diagrams, as a table: each pair of layers, its description and any example.
Interpretation Awaiting the founder’s approval
Analytical Templates
- Ten-layer reading sheetCSV
One row per layer, with the founder’s terms, questions proposed by the editors and empty columns for observations, sources and weight.
Proposed statement Awaiting the founder’s approval
Assessment Instruments
No assessment instruments for New Contextualism have yet been published by the founder or approved for this platform.
Guidance Documents
A guide to New Contextualism for students, co-edited with the founder, is listed as in progress (BRAC University n.d.b). The platform’s own guidance is given in its Editorial Standards, Citation Tools and Contributions and Review Process.
Bibliography
- The archive, in BibTeXBibTeX
Every record of New Contextualism and of the founder’s scholarship.
- The archive, in RISRIS
The same records, for Zotero, EndNote or Mendeley.
- Every record on the platform, in BibTeXBibTeX
The archive with the wider references and the documentary sources cited for facts.
- Every record on the platform, in RISRIS
The same records, for reference managers.
Sources
Documentary sources
- BRAC University n.d.bBRAC University. n.d.b. “Upama Das Nitu.” Faculty profile, BRAC University. Accessed October 31, 2026. https://www.bracu.ac.bd/about/people/upama-das-nitu. Record