Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Political Science
University of Amsterdam
Oudezijds Achterburgwal 237
Amsterdam 1012 DL
Netherlands
ABOUT
I specialise in the politics of walls and fences. My doctoral research was undertaken at SOAS, University of London and focused on the Security/Separation Barrier in the Occupied West Bank and the resistance it engendered amongst Palestinians and Israelis.
My current research is concerned with wall and fence building in the present day and in historical context. I am concerned with the functions of walls and fences, how these have remained constant and how they have changed in different contexts over time and space. Furthermore I am interested in how walls and fences are productive spaces, creating sites for resistance and political activism.
My work therefore broadly sits in the borderland between International Relations, Critical Security Studies and Political Geography.
In addition to a specific focus on walls and fences I am interested in migration and technologies of control; the construction of the Mediterranean as a securitised space; European-Mediterranean/MENA relations; EU foreign policy and the politics of Palestine/Israel.
Discipline
International Relations/Affairs
Sub Areas
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Foreign Relations
Mediterranean Studies
Security Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Europe
Gaza
Israel
Maghreb
Mediterranean Countries
Palestine
West Bank
Specialties
Mediterranean Relations; Migration; Walls & Fences
Languages
Arabic (intermediate)
French (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2010
| Politics and International Studies
| SOAS
Abstracts
Securitization, Externalization, Privatization: European Migration-control in the MENA
