Dr Mitaja Chakraborty has a PhD in Sociology from University of Hyderabad. Her PhD thesis looks at the garment workers’ struggles in the postcolonial globalising economy of Bangladesh. It looks at the interlinked discourses on development, empowerment and labour rights by the state, brands and owners and local activist networks. Her thesis locates the political subjectivity that emerges within the factory floors as well as in everyday spaces as central to the framing of demands and the conflicts and overlaps between the local and international activist networks. She has been a postdoctoral research associate at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali. At IISER Mohali, she has worked in a DST project titled Gender Advancement in Transforming Institutions – GATI, in collaboration with University College London, where she has undertaken extensive research on gender in STEMM institutions that culminated into a self assessment application report for IISER Mohali. She has received an ICSSR travel grant in 2019. She has presented her doctoral work in several national and international conferences. Her research interests include labour process, labour theory, feminist research methodologies, gendered labour and activism and transnational network studies.
