Nausheen Quayyum
Nausheen Quayyum is a contract faculty member in the Department of Social Science. Nausheen’s teaching and research areas are gender and development, social movements, labour activism, and South Asia. She currently teaches in the International Development Studies Program and Social Science more broadly.
Nausheen received her PhD in Political Science from York University. Her doctoral thesis titled “Activating communities, mobilizing women: Affective organizing in Bangladesh’s ready-made garment industry” was nominated for the York University Best Thesis Award. During her doctoral studies, she helped to set up the Globally Networked Learning initiative at York.
Publications:
Quayyum, N. (2023). Organizing garment workers in Bangladesh: kinship circles and the affective dimension of activism. Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue Canadienne d’études Du Développement, 44(2), 191–205.
Quayyum, N. (2022). Global supply chains and the pandemic: Experiences of readymade garment workers in Bangladesh. Syndemic Magazine.
Quayyum N. (2019). Women workers in Bangladesh's ready-made garment industry: Building an infrastructure of dissent. Journal of Labor and Society. 22(4).