Assistant Professor

Academics:

Ph.D. Concordia University (2022) 

M.A. English and Foreign Languages University (2004)

B.A. (Hons.) Miranda House College for Women, University of Delhi (2002)

Contact:

Email: pchatterjee@mun.ca

Office: A-4008

Phone: (709) 864-7453

Research:

Trained as an oral historian in India and Canada, my research addresses questions of socio-economic inequalities, dynamics of power in place and questions of labour and gender in the Global South, including geographies of poverty and informality within the Global North. My current research, "Not Cheap Labour: Women's Lives in Garment Supply Chains" (which received the 36-month Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship) examines the impact of economic restructuring on labour’s experiences through the Global South lens. It aims to transnationalize the conversation around deindustrialization, while also exploring the entanglement of economy and culture through a focus on women’s labour.

Teaching and supervision:

My current teaching interests include South Asia in Global History and race, class and gender in deindustrialization, economic restructuring and labour history.

I welcome student enquiries for supervision in the following areas: Oral history, South Asian labour diaspora, Gender and labour, Deindustrialization in the West and Economic Restructuring in South Asia

 

Publications:

Book chapters

Piyusha Chatterjee. (2024). Garment workers through the lens of loss: the long shadow of deindustrialization in South Asian films. In Routledge Handbook of Deindustrialization Studies, edited by Tim Strangleman, Sherry Lee Linkon, Steven High, Jackie Clarke and Stefan Berger. Routledge.

Piyusha Chatterjee. (2024). Marginalization, displacement and exclusion in Montreal’s cultural economy: a case study. In Events in Society. Series: How events transform society, edited by Michael Duignan. Routledge.

Piyusha Chatterjee and Steven High. (2017). The Deindustrialisation of Our Senses: Residual and Dominant Soundscapes in Montreal’s Point Saint-Charles District. In Telling Environmental
Histories: Intersections of Memory, Narrative and Environment, edited by Katie Holmes and Heather Goodall, (pp. 179–209). Palgrave Macmillan.

Journal article

Piyusha Chatterjee. (2018). The Urban Pirate: Rethinking the piratical as a “worlding” practice in the Global South. Antropologia Urbană 11, 15–26.

Book review

Piyusha Chatterjee. (2023). The Globally Familiar: Digital Hip Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi by Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan for The Canadian Geographer/ Le Géographe Canadien 67, No. 3, 25–26.

Outreach and Public Engagement

Workshop on Movements and Memory: South Asian Labour in Global History, May 23, 2025. Co-organisers: Piyusha Chatterjee, Henry Dee, Dave Featherstone and Diarmaid Kelliher.

Screening of Discount Workers by Ammar Aziz and Christopher Patz and Roundtable on “Transnational Production, National Laws” in collaboration with Glasgow Labour, Employment and Work (GLEW) Group and ArtsLab, University of Glasgow. Roundtable participants: Raktim Ray (UCL); Christopher Patz (co-director, Discount Workers); David Featherstone (University of Glasgow) and Piyusha Chatterjee (University of Glasgow); moderated by Jackie Clarke (University of Glasgow). March 15, 2024; Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) Glasgow. Co-organisers: Piyusha Chatterjee, Diarmaid Kelliher and David Featherstone

Street performers in Montréal are being displaced and excluded, The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/street-performers-in-montreal-are-being-displaced-and-excluded-187470

 

Organizing to Stay Legal: Montreal Metro Musicians’ Journey from Illegality to Self-Policing. Quebec Heritage News 13, no.4, Fall 2019.