Politics & International Studies Newsletter, no. 14 March 2015 Politics and International Studies Newsletter Introductions Mobilities and Mobilising Movements” which explores the development of cities, infrastructures, ports and transport in the Middle East and Gulf states. Rafeef holds a PhD in Political Science from York University, Canada (2013). Her research interests include the political economy of The Department welcomes Dr Alastair Fraser who has militarism, labour movements, multiculturalism and critical joined the department as of January as Lecturer in African race theory, with a particular focus on the Middle East. Politics. Alastair writes: She has also worked for many years around issues of Palestinian refugee rights, including as Senior Campaigns Officer for British NGO War on Want. She is also an accomplished performance poet! “I joined the Department in January. Most of my research has been about how foreign aid donors, international NGOs and multinational companies promote their preferred economic and social agendas in Africa, and about how African elites and citizens respond to these influences. I have written about Karoline Hecker is pleased to privatisation in the copper mining industry, the strategies have joined the department’s student support team on a African countries deploy to negotiate with international aid part-time basis until December. It was not until after a donors, and the ideological effects of relationships with couple of years in the UK chauffeur industry that she international NGOs and donors on trade union leaders, discovered her passion for higher education administration clerics and NGO workers. I am interested in Southern and took up an opportunity at Middlesex University where Africa and have used Zambia as my main case study. My she also completed a part-time online undergraduate current research projects look at the politics of ‘call-in’ degree on the side. She then went on to work at University radio and television shows, and I have a longer term of the Arts before she headed off to Ghana to teach for a project considering the dynamics of and relationships year. Karoline recently returned to London after a brief between market oriented, technocratic, post-socialist and stint in the human resources department of a Berlin populist modes of political mobilization and rule. I am a technology start-up and is expected to graduate with a member of the Editorial Working Group of the Review of master’s in International Business and Development from African Political Economy and previously worked as a Birkbeck in the autumn. Outside of work she enjoys a Lecturer in African Politics at the University of Cambridge good workout at the gym or a stroll through an exhibition. and as a researcher and lobbyist for Action for Southern Africa the successor organisation to the Anti-Apartheid Movement in the UK.” Appointments, Awards, Honours The Department congratulates Peter Brett, Margarita Dimova and Jamil Mouawad, who have all just passed their doctoral vivas. Many warm congratulations to the newly minted “doctors”! Doctoral student Veronica Ferreri has been awarded with We also welcome Dr Rafeef a doctoral fellowship by the Trajectories of Change Ziadah who has joined the department as ESRC Programme - ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Postdoctoral Fellow on Laleh Khalili’s project, “Military Bucerius from February 2015 to September 2016. 1 Politics & International Studies Newsletter, no. 14 March 2015 Doctoral student Akanksha Mehta has been awarded the Christopher’s paper looked at the interplay of the FTW International Award by Duke University to cosmopolitan and the local through an examination of the participate in the Ninth Annual Duke University Feminist treatment of myth in the surrealist poetry of Georges Theory Workshop (March 2015). She was also elected to Henein and visual art of ‘Abd al-Hadi al-Gazzar. the Executive Committee of the Feminist Theory and PhD Student Atta Barkindo has been appointed a Gender Studies Section (FTGS) of the International Consultant on the European Union Support to Help Studies Association (ISA). Strengthen Nigeria’s National Capacity Respond to Doctoral student Pia Ljungman has been awarded the Evolving Security Challenges (EUTANS), by the Office of Kone Foundation doctoral grant. Kone Foundation the National Security Adviser, Nigeria. supports bold new multidisciplinary research initiatives. Felix Berenskoetter started to work as an Associate Pia is working on how the European sovereign debt crisis Editor for a new ISA journal called The Journal of Global has remodelled Europe with the objective to explain the Security Studies (JoGSS), published with Oxford University European arrangement’s strategic role in finance Press. The journal’s mission is to encourage conversations capitalism. between different approaches to studying ‘security’ and Kathryn Nash received a tuition grant from the Allan & welcomes submissions across theoretical, methodological Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust for the third year of her and thematic camps. It publishes four types of work: PhD. research articles, review articles, forums, and research In November, Michael Farquhar accepted two prizes for innovations. More information about the journal and how his doctoral thesis ‘Expanding the Wahhabi Mission: Saudi to submit can be found on the OUP website. Arabia, the Islamic University of Medina and the Meera Sabaratnam has been re-elected as co-convenor Transnational Religious Economy’. The first was the for the Colonial, Postcolonial and De-colonial Working Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies Group of the British International Studies Association. (AGAPS) dissertation award; the second, an honourable She has also been elected as a Member-at-large for the mention in the Malcolm H. Kerr Award for best International Political Sociology Section of the dissertation in the social sciences, administered by the International Studies Association. Middle East Studies Association of North America. Michael’s thesis, which he completed in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science, explores the role played by Saudi state- New Publications funded educational institutions in extending Wahhabi religious influence to locations around the world. Enze Han has been awarded a Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Enze will be an With the support of Dr Phil Clark and the Department academic member of the Institute’s School of Social of Politics and International Studies, the Somaliland Sciences for the academic year 2015-16. During the Journal of African Studies (SJAS) was launched on March 4th Fellowship, he will be conducting research for his project at SOAS, Room 116. SJAS - a joint project between a on ‘State and Nation-Making in the Multi-ethnic SOAS student (Rodrigo Vaz, MSc African Politics) and Borderlands between China and Southeast Asia’. scholars from the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies Doctoral student Gerasimos Tsourapas was awarded a at the University of Hargeisa - seeks to shed light on the British International Studies Association Workshop Grant political landscape of Africa – material, immaterial, and to co-convene an international workshop titled ‘Sending otherwise. It looks to publish original academic research States, Emigrants & Diasporas: New Trends & Novel into political regimes, modes of government, Approaches in Political Science,’ to be held before the configurations of extraction and production, political Annual BISA Conference in June 2015. imaginaries, and the sociocultural inflections of these phenomena. It aims to cover a broad spectrum of Doctoral students Jack Joy, Noga Glucksam and MPhil disciplines, spanning from philosophy, history, political student Calum Fisher received a scholarship to attend the science, and international relations, to sociology and Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research anthropology. The first issue of the journal, launched on (IQMR) at Syracuse University in June 2015. Dr Reem the same day, can be found here. The call for papers for Abou-El-Fadl will also be attending. the next issue can be found here. Recent doctoral graduate Sami Everett accepted a junior Salwa Ismail’s “The Resurgence of Police Government in research fellowship at Woolf Institute, Cambridge. Egypt“ was published online by the Project on Middle Christopher Barrie, MSc Middle East Politics, was East Political Science (POMEPS). This memo was recently awarded the Rhonda A. Saad Prize for Best prepared for The Arab Thermidor: The Resurgence of the Security Graduate Paper in Modern and Contemporary Arab Art . State workshop held in London in October 2014. The prize is awarded by The Association of Modern and Doctoral student Emanuelle Degli Esposti published Contemporary Art of the Arab World (AMCA) and is a review of Jessica Auchter’s The Politics of Haunting and open to submissions worldwide. The winner’s submission Memory in International Relations in the 10th anniversary issue is considered for publication in the Arab Studies Journal. 2 Politics & International Studies Newsletter, no. 14 March 2015 of the St Anthony’s International Review (Feb 2015), ’The Rahul Rao published two book chapters: ‘Echoes of Resurgence of Identity Politics’. Imperialism in LGBT Activism’, in Echoes of Empire: Memory, Identity and Colonial Legacies, eds. Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Berny Sèbe & Gabrielle Maas (I. B. Tauris, 2015) and ‘The elusiveness of ‘Non-Western cosmopolitanism’’, in Politics and Cosmopolitanism