A talk by Mohammad Tareq Hasan, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Dhaka, on how regulatory instruments, i.e., an auditing culture, has shaped the working conditions in a Bangladeshi garment factory post the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster.
Sanchita Saxena, Professional Faculty, Center for Responsible Business, Haas School of Business, will serve as discussant.
Event moderated by Elora Shehabuddin, Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Global Studies and Director, Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies, UC Berkeley
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Event live streamed on FB at: ChowdhuryCenter atUCBerkeley
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About the Speaker
Mohammad Tareq Hasan is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Bergen, Norway. His research interests include minority and ethnic groups, gender relations, collective action, anthropology of work, state formation, political economy, and egalitarianism. He is the author of Everyday Life of Ready-made Garment Kormi in Bangladesh: An Ethnography of Neoliberalism. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
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Established in 2013 with a generous gift from the Subir & Malini Chowdhury Foundation, The Subir & Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies at UC Berkeley champions the study of Bangladesh’s cultures, peoples and history. The first of its kind in the US, the Center’s mission is to create an innovative model combining research, scholarships, the promotion of art and culture, and the building of ties between institutions in Bangladesh and the University of California.
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Event is FREE and OPEN to the public.
