Biography
Ivana has a BSc (Politics and International Relations) and a Master (Representation and Public Opinion) from the University Carlo Bo of Urbino and a MSc (Middle East Politics) from the School of Oriental and African Studies.
She is a Researcher, Lecturer and Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Geography at KCL. Her research, teaching and writing are rooted within critical race, settler colonial and indigenous studies and cross the fields of geography, urban studies, politics, and anthropology.
Ivana is particularly interested in examining the violence of infrastructure in relation to colonialism, capitalism, race, and mobility while at the same time exploring everyday geographies of social infrastructure and lived experiences fostering collective forms of service provision and communal arrangements of property.
She also works with a team of researchers on an exploratory and collaborative arts-based research project called "Imaging Social Justice" as part of the Visual Embodied Methodologies Network which partners with the Arts Cabinet in experimenting with different forms of artistic knowledge production. Ivana's contribution is characterised by a multi-sensory approach and combines academic investigation with participatory photography and filmmaking.
Ivana has produced movies, designed exhibitions, and delivered workshops to community groups and universities in co-productive participatory research projects.
Research
Thesis title: Infrastructures of Empire: Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Sovereignty and the Planning of the Commons
In her LAHP-funded doctoral research, Ivana combines archival research with ethnography and participatory methods to investigate the entanglement between the coloniality of infrastructure and the materiality of Zionist logics.
In particular, she investigates the role of roadscapes in cementing the spatial politics of Judaization in Palestine/Israel and the ways in which struggles over infrastructural development plans have enhanced forms of indigenous sovereignty beyond the colonial recognition of rights to the land. Alongside the Arab Centre for Alternative Planning and the Popular Committee of Wadi Ara, she has developed a counter-cartographical repository that seeks to predict, and prevent, the effects of planning policy and infrastructural violence on local Palestinian communities in the 1948-territories.
PhD supervision
- Principal supervisor: Richard Schofield
- Secondary supervisor: Majed Akhter
Further details
Research
Urban Futures research group
Examining urban futures through a conceptual, analytical and methodological lens that questions what cities are and how they work.
Contested Development research group
Exploring environmental, political and social questions in relation to contested and uneven processes of development.
Events
Embodied Lines: Opening up arts-based and decolonial research practices
Department of Geography researchers explore insights from the arts-based participatory projects, as part of the Embodied Lines exhibition at Science Gallery...
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Filmmaking as Research
A Visual Embodied Methodologies workshop series event with Ivana Bevilacqua
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Features
Using art to put marginalised communities at the centre of research
Despite being geographically diverse, the ‘Embodied Lines’ exhibition brought together the experience of communities from Latin America, Palestine and South...
Research
Urban Futures research group
Examining urban futures through a conceptual, analytical and methodological lens that questions what cities are and how they work.
Contested Development research group
Exploring environmental, political and social questions in relation to contested and uneven processes of development.
Events
Embodied Lines: Opening up arts-based and decolonial research practices
Department of Geography researchers explore insights from the arts-based participatory projects, as part of the Embodied Lines exhibition at Science Gallery...
Please note: this event has passed.
Filmmaking as Research
A Visual Embodied Methodologies workshop series event with Ivana Bevilacqua
Please note: this event has passed.
Features
Using art to put marginalised communities at the centre of research
Despite being geographically diverse, the ‘Embodied Lines’ exhibition brought together the experience of communities from Latin America, Palestine and South...