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Amina Nolte
Doctoral Candidate: Subproject C05 - Political security and economized infrastructures
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Justus Liebig University Giessen
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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 LeipzigCurrent 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 EthnographyFellowships 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-FoundationMemberships 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 CulturePublications
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