An Empire of Touch: Women’s Political Labor and the Fabrication of East Bengal

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Nafisa Tanjeem

Nafisa Tanjeem is an Assistant Professor of Global Studies and Gender, Race, and Sexuality Studies at Lesley University. Nafisa’s research and teaching interests include transnational feminist theories, critical race theories, transnational social justice movements, globalization and feminist politics, and South Asia Studies. Her current book project examines transnational labor activism and activist discourses developed in relation to the deadliest garment industrial disaster in human history – the 2013 collapse of Rana Plaza, a factory building housing five garment factories in Savar, Bangladesh. Drawing on two-year-long physical and digital ethnographic observations, her project reveals how creative transnational feminist praxis in virtual and physical organizing spaces can uncover histories and struggles of women workers and grassroots labor organizers, thereby transcending benevolent regimes of neoliberal transnational labor organizing.