UAM-4.416

mgr Aleksandra Dzik

PhD Candidate, Department of Social Anthropology

Room: 2.13
Phone: 61 829 13 71
E-mail: aleksandra.dzik@amu.edu.pl

Office hours:

Wednesday 12:00-13:00
Thursday 13:00-14:00

 

Interested in socio-environmental issues related to the ‘fast fashion’/RMG industry, as well as sustainable production policies implemented in Bangladesh (where she is conducting research) and their impact on the local society and environment. In relation to research, she is also interested in local and global education, the tangible and intangible heritage of Bangladesh and its contemporary use/recreation, and climate change education. Additionally, she is interested in issues related to labour, decolonisation and neo-colonialism, decolonial feminist movements, and the concepts of power and resistance operating in South Asian countries. An important part of her research is the use of visual ethnography and methodologies related to visual anthropology (photography and ethnographic film).
  • Dzik, A. (2018). Recycled patterns. Using the design of folk towels from the Bielsk Podlaski area. In: A. W. Brzezińska, S. Kucharska (red.), Creators / Makers / Processors. Around the issues of regional design (s. 145-155). Kalisz: District Museum of the Kalisz Land in Kalisz. https://issuu.com/mozkk/docs/monografia_www
  • Dzik, A., Kotlarska, I., Lichota, J., Machowska M., Rudnicka, M., Zalewski, P. (2014). Oskar Kolberg’s achievements as national and European heritage. In: Twórczość ludowa, nr R. XXIX (77)2014, Nr 3-4, s. 16-18. Lublin: Folk Artists Association.
  • Towards sustainability. Challenges and experiences of climate crisis in the Bangladeshi Ready Made Garment and textile industry from an anthropological perspective. Project Investigator of the project no. 2024/53/N/HS3/02495 funded by NCN Prelude-23 (2025 – 2028).
  • Between patriarchy and emancipation. An anthropological look at practices of resistance among female workers in the fast fashion industry. BestResearchGrant funded by ID-UB Initiative of Excellence – Research University, Adam Mickiewicz University (2024).
  • Being Yōgya Karmī. An anthropological analysis of neo-colonial valuing processes from the perspective of Bangladeshi garment factory workers. Project and dissertation research carried out at the Doctoral School of Humanities, AMU (2021 – 2026).
  • Atlas of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Greater Poland Village, National Museum of Agriculture and Agri-Food in Szreniawa (2021).
  • Muradyny, Siwki, Żandary – living tradition in Greater Poland, National Museum of Agriculture and Agri-Food in Szreniawa, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2018).
  • Museum Education. Analysis of the phenomenon on the basis of the activities of the Museum in Bielsk Podlaski, research among the inhabitants of Podlasie for the master’s thesis (2018).
  • Let’s meet on a bench, Podlaskie Museum in Bialystok, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, A Pushkin University in Brest, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2017).
  • Digital Archive of Joseph Burszta – digitization of archives and their publication on the Internet, Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology of the Adam Mickiewicz University, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2014).

Membership in scientific associations:

  • AMU Research Centre for Energy and Environmental Challenges (since 2024)
  • European Association of Social Anthropologists EASA (since 2024)
  • Committee on Asian Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (since 2022)
  • Polish Ethnological Society (since 2021)

Additional roles performed:

  • Affiliated visiting PhD Student Researcher of the Department of Anthropology at the Dhaka University (2024 – 2028)
  • Chairperson of the Doctoral Student Council in the DSoH AMU (2024/2025)
  • Deputy chairperson in the DSoH’s Doctoral Student Council (term 2023/2024)
  • Deputy chairman of the Section of Environmental Anthropology and Interspecies Ethnography at the Polish Ethnological Society (since 2023)
  • Deputy treasurer and member of the board of directors in the Poznan branch of the Polish Ethnological Society (term 2023 – 2027)
  • Representative of DSoH Doctoral Students in the Council of the School of Humanities at Adam Mickiewicz University (2022 – 2024)
  • Member of the Doctoral Council of the Doctoral School of Humanities, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (2022 – 2025)
  • Representative of Doctoral Students in the recruitment council of the Anthropology and Cultural Studies Faculty (2022/2023, 2023/2024)
  • Member of the Organising Committee of the International Anthropological Scientific Conference EASA2026 (2024 – 2026)

 

Prizes and Awards:

26.04.2023 1st prize in the “Roots and Wings” competition for the best master’s thesis on the culture and heritage of rural areas in Poland. Organizer: National Institute of Culture and Rural Heritage, Warsaw, Poland. The competition was organized under the patronage of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, the Minister of Education and Science, and the Polish Committee for UNESCO.

 

Research stays at home and abroad:

15.05-10.10.2025 Research trip – Dhaka, Bangladesh. Collaboration with the Department of Anthropology at the Dhaka University. Trip conducted as part of a project entitled „Towards sustainability. Challenges and experiences of climate crisis in the Bangladeshi Ready Made Garment and textile industry from an anthropological perspective” No. 2024/53/N/HS3/02495 funded by NCN Preludium-23.

15.08-15.11.2024 Research trip – Dhaka, Bangladesh. The trip co-funded by the Department of Anthropology and Cultural Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University.

16-29.02.2024 A research stay in Dhaka, Bangladesh. 5 month project and research trip funded by ID-UB Adam Mickiewicz University in the Best Research Grant competition (037). Hosting Organization: University of Dhaka, Department of Anthropology

15.06-16.07.2023 Research Internship in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Hosting Organization: Bangladesh Nari Progati Sangha. Internship funded by the project “UNIVERSITY OF TOMORROW II – integrated development program of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań”, No. POWR.03.05.00-00-Z303/18.

 

Lectures and Conference Presentations:

  • “Precarious future of the younger generation. Bangladeshi youth’s experience in the labor market” at the 18th EASA Biennial Conference EASA2024: “Doing and Undoing with Anthropology” – international conference. Organizer: European Association of Social Anthropologists, University of Barcelona (2024).
  • “Colonialism of the Mind. A critical analysis of the fashion industry and the narratives around it” – guest lecture in the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (2024).
  • “Sustainability vs. Responsibility. Anthropological view at garment industry workers in Bangladesh” at The 12th Asia-Pacific International Conference: “Towards the Indo-Pacific: new strategies and patterns of international cooperation and exchange”. Organizer: Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Asia-Pacific Research Centre (2023).
  • “Daily life in Bangladesh. Reporters’ sensationalist language versus ethnographic images. Reflections from the research field” at a “Sensory Anthropology. The senses as an object of study and a research tool” – national scientific conference. Organizer: Polich Ethnological Society (2023).
  • “Creating consumer values and attitudes in the Fast Fashion industry” at a “Development of the humanities and social sciences. Views of young scientists”- national scientific conference of young scientists. Organizer: organization and project associating doctoral students doktorant.com.pl (2023).
  • “The clothing revolution – paths to a sustainable and responsible fashion industry” – guest lecture in the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (2023).
  • “Anthropological analysis of fashion industry and Fashion Studies as an examples of contemporary colonization” at a “Ethnology Without Borders” – international convention of students of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology. Organizer: University o Silesia, Cieszyn (2022).
  • “Regional education as a form of university involvement in creating ecological social attitudes” at a nationwide intercollegiate scientific conference: “The Anthropocene and the role of the university in its shaping”. Organizer: Students’ Scientific Association of Ethnologists at the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan (2022).

 

Additional activity:

  • 2024-2026 Co-organisation of the EASA2026 international scientific conference.
  • 03-12.2024 Organisation of the international interdisciplinary SDNH Winter School in Gultovy – Winter School: ‘Lessons from the Past, Solutions for the Future. Humanities in the Face of Global Crises” (03-07.12.2024).
  • Od 2022 Antropo_logiczna maintaining a social media account dedicated to the dissemination and promotion of scientific and research knowledge in the field of anthropology and ethnology.
  1. 2021 – 05.2022 The Anthropocene and the role of universities in shaping it. Co-organisation of a scientific conference.