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Amina Nolte

Doctoral Candidate: Subproject C05 - Political security and economized infrastructures 

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    Justus Liebig University Giessen

  • Vita

    Since 01/2018
    Research associate at CRC 138 "Dynamics of Security", Subproject C05 — Political security and economized infrastructures 

    02/2017 - 07/2017
    Research Fellow at Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem

    Since 10/2015
    Scholarship grant in Sociology, International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture, Justus Liebig University Giessen

    01/2016 - 04/2016
    Visiting Doctoral Student at the Institute for Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University, Budapest

    10/2011 - 03/2015
    Master of Arts: Middle Eastern Politics and Economics. Philipps Universität Marburg, Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies

    10/2012 - 06/2013
    Visiting Graduate Student, Hebrew University Jerusalem in the MA program „Israel Studies“

    10/2010 - 01/2011
    Studied Arabic at the University of Damascus, Syria

     10/2008 - 09/2012
    BA Studies in Near Eastern Studies and Political Science, Martin Luther Universität Halle/Wittenberg

    10/2007 - 10/2008
    BA Studies in Social Sciences and Philosophy with a focus on Political Science, Universität Leipzig

  • Current research project

    "Securitizing Infrastructure: governing through mobility and affect in Jerusalem" (working title)

  • Research Interests

    Spatial Theory
    Urban research
    Infrastructure
    Affect
    Theories of Securitization
    Mobility
    Postcolonial Theory
    Middle East, in particular Israeli History, Politics and Society
    Jerusalem (History and present)
    Political Ethnography

  • Fellowships and Scholarships

    02/2017 – 07/2017: DAAD Scholarship for a Research Fellowship at the Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem
    10/2015 – 12/2017: Doctoral Scholarship grant by the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Giessen (DFG)
    11/2015 – 09/2017: Research Associate at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in the project "Spaces of Participation: Topographies of Political and Social change in Morocco, Egypt and Palestine"
    10/2008 - 2015: Fulltime Study Scholarship, Heinrich-Böll-Foundation

  • Memberships and Research

    Seit 02/2018: Member of the  young researchers group "Politics of Reproduction"
    10/2017: Member of the research group "Political Education" at the Graduate Center Cultural Studies, Giessen
    11/2015 – 12/2016: Speaker of the research group "Global Politics and the Politics of Space" at the International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture

  • Publications

    2020
    (zus. mit Beier, R.): Global aspirations and local (dis-)connections: A critical comparative perspective on tramway projects in Casablanca and Jerusalem, in: Political Geography 78.

    (zus. mit Westermeier, C.): Between Public and Private: The Co-production of Infrastructural Security, in: Politikon 35, H. 5, S. 1–19.

    (zus. mit Beier, R.): Global aspirations and local (dis-)connections: A critical comparative perspective on tramway projects in Casablanca and Jerusalem, in: Political Geography 78, S. 102-123.

    (zus. mit Gunesch, J.): Failing better together – a stylized conversation about fieldwork, in: Katarina Kušić, Jakub Záhora (eds.) Fieldwork as Failure: Living and Knowing in the Field of International Relations, E-International Relations, https://www.e-ir.info/publication/fieldwork-as-failure-living-and-knowing-in-the-field-of-international-relations/ 

    2019
    “The Show Must Go On? - Kommende Katastrophen und die Regierung durch Resilienz [Review on: Folkers, Andreas: Das Sicherheitsdispositiv der Resilienz: Katastrophische Risiken und die Biopolitik vitaler Systeme. Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag, 2017]”. In: KULT_online 57.

    2018 
    (zus. mit Westermeier, C.): Den Staat wieder spüren – Heimat und Infrastruktur, in: Theorieblog – politische Theorie, Philosophie und Ideengeschichte, 10/2018.

    (zus. mit Özdemir, E.): Infrastructures as the Social in Action: an Interview with Ronen Shamir, in: Middle East - Topics & Arguments (10), June, S. 53–58.

    (zus. mit Özdemir, E.): Infrastructuring Geographies: Histories and Presents in and of the Middle East and North Africa, in: Middle East - Topics &Amp; Arguments (10), S. 5-20.

    2016
    Political Infrastructure and Politics of Infrastructure: The Light Rail in Jerusalem. City: Analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action. Vol.20.3, pp.441-454.

    "Martin Buber: Die Idee einer binationalen Lösung". In: Niehoff, Mirko (ed.). “Nahostkonflikt kontrovers: Perspektiven für die politische Bildung”. Wochenschau Verlag.

    "Tzipi Livni: Mit moderaten Kräften zu einer Lösung des Konflikts". In: Niehoff, Mirko (ed.). “Nahostkonflikt kontrovers: Perspektiven für die politische Bildung.” Wochenschau Verlag.

    "Ahmad Tibi: Anerkennung und Selbstbestimmung der Palästinenser/-innen als Voraussetzung für Versöhnung". In: Niehoff, Mirko (ed.). “Nahostkonflikt kontrovers: Perspektiven für die politische Bildung.” Wochenschau Verlag.

    2015
    (zusammen mit Yacobi, Haim) Politics, Infrastructure and representation: The case of Jerusalem’s Light Rail. Cities, Vol.43. pp. 28–36

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