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Rafeef Ziadah

Dr Rafeef Ziadah

Senior Lecturer in Politics and Public Policy (Emerging Economies)

Research interests

  • International development
  • Politics

Biography

Rafeef is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and Public Policy (Emerging Economies). Her research focuses broadly on political economy, gender and race, with a particular focus on the Middle East and East Africa.

She holds a PhD in Politics from York University, Canada. Previously she was a Lecturer in the Politics and International Studies department, SOAS University of London and Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the 'Military Mobilities and Mobilising Movements in the Middle East' project. This ESRC funded project explored the politics of transport infrastructures in the Arabian Peninsula and culminated in the production of the website Sinews of War and Trade. Rafeef is co-editor (with Brenna Bhandar) of the book Revolutionary Feminisms (Verso press 2020).

Her research on infrastructures and maritime politics has appeared in Politics, Antipode; Conflict, Security & Development; International Journal of Urban and Regional Research; Environment and Planning D: Society and Space; among other venues. Rafeef has worked as researcher and campaigns organiser with a number of refugee rights and anti-poverty NGOs. 

Research

  • Political economy of development
  • Infrastructures and logistics
  • Gender and feminism
  • Race and racialisation
  • Middle East / East Africa

Rafeef’s research centers on the production of interdisciplinary scholarship that falls into three thematic areas: infrastructures and logistics, gender and feminism, race and racialisation. Her recent research is broadly concerned with the political economy of maritime infrastructures and logistics, with a particular focus on the Middle East and East Africa. She is currently examining the impact of Gulf Cooperation Council military and commercial interventions following the 2011 Arab uprisings.

Teaching

  • 6YYD0011 Comparative Public Policy Analysis in Emerging Economies (BA)
  • 7YYD0011 Comparative Public Policy Analysis in Emerging Economies (MSc)

PhD supervision

Rafeef is interested in supervising students focusing on the following research areas: Politics of infrastructures Political economy of the Middle East and East Africa Gender and feminism Racism and the security state.

Further details

See Rafeef's research profile

    Research

    Banking and Finance
    Global Production, Finance and Labour research group

    A multidisciplinary research group dealing with global production, labour, money and finance within the Department of International Development at the School of Global Affairs, King's College London.

    city-skysracpers--PhYq704ffdA-unsplash
    Global Capitalism, Power & Uneven Development research group

    We study the many ways in which the world-system unevenly constrains and drives development everywhere, with its persistent structural hierarchies, dependencies, contradictions, and unequal power relations between classes, ethnicities, genders, races, and states.

    Climate and emissions
    Climate, Environment, and Uneven Development research group

    This group focuses on the critical study of the processes that drive and link social and ecological change in the contemporary world, with special attention to the climate crisis and its multiple social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions.

    News

    New toolkit uses anticolonial archives to create inclusive classrooms

    King’s lecturers and students have created a pedagogical toolkit aimed at countering discriminatory power structures in the classroom.

    Lotus Journal covers

    International Development academic wins best paper award

    Dr Rafeef Ziadah’s paper ‘Surveillance, race, and social sorting in the United Arab Emirates’ was named the best paper published in Politics Journal in 2021.

    Rafeef Ziadah

    Events

    31Janicj1

    Except Palestine: Conflict, Development and De-Development

    The third instalment in the "Except Palestine" series, hosted across London universities

    Please note: this event has passed.

    29JunChoman Hardi_Whispering Walls book cover

    Book presentation: 'Whispering Walls' with Choman Hardi

    A timely novel with powerful political resonance, documenting a Kurdish family’s quest for closure during the invasion of Iraq.

    Please note: this event has passed.

    08Marinternational women's day

    On International Women's Day: Women, Education and Empowerment in Palestine

    On International Women's Day, this discussion examines the experience of women in higher education in the context of the current escalating military violence,...

    Please note: this event has passed.

    06OctLotus Journal covers

    Launch event: Afro-Asian solidarities: Lotus and its afterlives exhibition

    Join for a reception and panel discussion for the launch of the Afro-Asian solidarities: Lotus and its afterlives exhibition.

    Please note: this event has passed.

    06OctLotus Journal covers

    Afro-Asian solidarities: Lotus and its afterlives exhibition

    This exhibition focuses on the anti-colonial writers and artists of the Afro-Asian Writers Association and their journal Lotus.

    Please note: this event has passed.

    15OctIRRposter

    New Circuits of Anti-Racism

    Join a range of thinkers, scholar-activists and campaigners for an IRR50 conference on racism, imperialism and new lines of resistance.

    Please note: this event has passed.

    16MarBordering Britain

    Bordering Britain: Law, race and empire

    At this seminar, Nadine El-Enany will present her book Bordering Britain: Law, race and empire.

    Please note: this event has passed.

    16MayGender Studies logo

    Vernacular rights cultures: The politics of origins, human rights and gendered struggle for justice

    Join us for this talk about the book 'Vernacular Rights Cultures: The Politics of Origins, Human Rights and Gendered Struggle for Justice' with author,...

    Please note: this event has passed.

      Research

      Banking and Finance
      Global Production, Finance and Labour research group

      A multidisciplinary research group dealing with global production, labour, money and finance within the Department of International Development at the School of Global Affairs, King's College London.

      city-skysracpers--PhYq704ffdA-unsplash
      Global Capitalism, Power & Uneven Development research group

      We study the many ways in which the world-system unevenly constrains and drives development everywhere, with its persistent structural hierarchies, dependencies, contradictions, and unequal power relations between classes, ethnicities, genders, races, and states.

      Climate and emissions
      Climate, Environment, and Uneven Development research group

      This group focuses on the critical study of the processes that drive and link social and ecological change in the contemporary world, with special attention to the climate crisis and its multiple social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions.

      News

      New toolkit uses anticolonial archives to create inclusive classrooms

      King’s lecturers and students have created a pedagogical toolkit aimed at countering discriminatory power structures in the classroom.

      Lotus Journal covers

      International Development academic wins best paper award

      Dr Rafeef Ziadah’s paper ‘Surveillance, race, and social sorting in the United Arab Emirates’ was named the best paper published in Politics Journal in 2021.

      Rafeef Ziadah

      Events

      31Janicj1

      Except Palestine: Conflict, Development and De-Development

      The third instalment in the "Except Palestine" series, hosted across London universities

      Please note: this event has passed.

      29JunChoman Hardi_Whispering Walls book cover

      Book presentation: 'Whispering Walls' with Choman Hardi

      A timely novel with powerful political resonance, documenting a Kurdish family’s quest for closure during the invasion of Iraq.

      Please note: this event has passed.

      08Marinternational women's day

      On International Women's Day: Women, Education and Empowerment in Palestine

      On International Women's Day, this discussion examines the experience of women in higher education in the context of the current escalating military violence,...

      Please note: this event has passed.

      06OctLotus Journal covers

      Launch event: Afro-Asian solidarities: Lotus and its afterlives exhibition

      Join for a reception and panel discussion for the launch of the Afro-Asian solidarities: Lotus and its afterlives exhibition.

      Please note: this event has passed.

      06OctLotus Journal covers

      Afro-Asian solidarities: Lotus and its afterlives exhibition

      This exhibition focuses on the anti-colonial writers and artists of the Afro-Asian Writers Association and their journal Lotus.

      Please note: this event has passed.

      15OctIRRposter

      New Circuits of Anti-Racism

      Join a range of thinkers, scholar-activists and campaigners for an IRR50 conference on racism, imperialism and new lines of resistance.

      Please note: this event has passed.

      16MarBordering Britain

      Bordering Britain: Law, race and empire

      At this seminar, Nadine El-Enany will present her book Bordering Britain: Law, race and empire.

      Please note: this event has passed.

      16MayGender Studies logo

      Vernacular rights cultures: The politics of origins, human rights and gendered struggle for justice

      Join us for this talk about the book 'Vernacular Rights Cultures: The Politics of Origins, Human Rights and Gendered Struggle for Justice' with author,...

      Please note: this event has passed.