Ashraf

Biography

for last couple years i have been conducting research on practices of global garment production and labour politics in Bangladesh and simultaneously working with varied policy processes, garment workers' lived realities and consulted by media on aspects of the global garment industry. my research interest has grown to work with ‘water practices’ and ‘valuation of food’ in Dhaka (Bangladesh) as lens to look at how ‘life’ undergoes continuous reorganisation. previously, i have conducted extensive ethnographic research in rural, coastal and urban settings in Bangladesh (since 2002) on range of ontologies: sexual rights, youth culture in Dhaka, violence against women and legal pluralism, religious movement, and political particisaiton of everyday life and changes in agrarian lifeways in northern Bangladesh.     for last couple years i have been conducting research on practices of global garment production and labour politics in Bangladesh and simultaneously working with varied policy processes, garment workers' lived realities and consulted by media on aspects of the global garment industry. my research interest has grown to work with ‘water practices’ and ‘valuation of food’ in Dhaka (Bangladesh) as lens to look at how ‘life’ undergoes continuous reorganisation. previously, i have conducted extensive ethnographic research in rural, coastal and urban settings in Bangladesh (since 2002) on range of ontologies: sexual rights, youth culture in Dhaka, violence against women and legal pluralism, religious movement, and political particisaiton of everyday life and changes in agrarian lifeways in northern Bangladesh.    

Research Interest

global practices of garment production; labour politics; food valuation; water practices