Minerwa Tahir

Minerwa Tahir is a Doctoral Research Fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, focusing on the intersection of temporality, social security, and disability in late 19th–20th century South Asia. Her research investigates dock workers in colonial Karachi, analyzing how bureaucratic systems (e.g., pensions, insurance) reconfigured kinship structures and gendered labor dynamics.

• Key themes: time planning, money as social relation, colonial legal frameworks
• Methodological emphasis on disability studies and social policy history

Her work challenges abstract economic models by situating financial instruments within lived social realities, particularly through shrine/mandir practices as alternative future-securing mechanisms.