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Dr Negar Elodie Behzadi
Dr Negar Elodie Behzadi

Dr Negar Elodie Behzadi

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Biography

Dr Negar Elodie Behzadi is a French/Iranian feminist geographer of environment and development, trained in France and the UK. For several years, she was an environmental and social executive for a multilateral development project in Southeast Asia.

In 2012, she graduated with a first-class degree in Environment and Development (MA Geography) at King’s College London. She then carried on her academic training with a DPhil in Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford (2018).

Negar's doctoral research explored the working lives of men, women and children in a context of politico-ecological transformation in post-Soviet Tajikistan. In observing gendered work and resource struggles, her research built a complex understanding of how gender comes into being in this post-Soviet Muslim context, marked by significant political and environmental shifts.

Her work investigated how gender, Muslimness and tradition were reconfigured in the wake of broader politico-ecological transformations and their local impacts through work and resource struggles.

Negar is also an aspiring documentary filmmaker – interested in the connections between visual and embodied approaches to research and social sciences methodologies. She is currently working on a short documentary based on her ethnographic work in Tajikistan. She previously coordinated the Visual and Embodied Methodologies (VEM) network at King’s.

Research

  • Feminist post and decolonial theory
  • Feminist political ecology
  • Resource extraction
  • Children and youth
  • Feminist geopolitics
  • Geographies of Muslimness
  • Child labour/gender and labour
  • Tajikistan

Negar’s work brings the insights of feminist political ecology, labour geography and the sensibilities of an ethnographer to issues of work, migration, resource struggles, gender and Muslimness in the Global South and the post-Soviet Muslim South. She undertakes empirically grounded research on topical development issues with marginalised communities – women, men and children informal and precarious labourers in an extractive coal landscape marked by the emergence of Chinese investments in post-Soviet Tajikistan.

Her work fosters conversations between different strands of feminist geographical research: geographies of Muslim identities, post/decolonial geography, political ecology, labour geography, children and youth geographies and feminist geopolitics.

Negar is currently co-editing a book on Extraction and Exclusion and working on publishing her research in multiple peer-reviewed journals.

Further details

See Negar's research profile

    News

    Using animation to raise awareness of issues of gender and exclusion

    Dr Negar Elodie Behzadi is working with an artist to create an animated ethnographic portrait based on her research of stigmatised female coal miners in...

    Women with A Camera Bag

    Visualising the margins through visual, embodied and arts-based methodologies

    The recent 'Visualising the margins' exhibition saw the launch of the Visual, Embodied, and Arts-based Methodologies (VEM) network.

    Visualising the margins: Gendered perspectives' exhibition at King's College London

    Events

    01MarVisualising the Margins: Gendered Perspectives exhibition

    Visualising the Margins: Gendered Perspectives exhibition

    This exhibition presents the (audio)visual work of seven women academics at different stages of their career at King’s College London.

    Please note: this event has passed.

      News

      Using animation to raise awareness of issues of gender and exclusion

      Dr Negar Elodie Behzadi is working with an artist to create an animated ethnographic portrait based on her research of stigmatised female coal miners in...

      Women with A Camera Bag

      Visualising the margins through visual, embodied and arts-based methodologies

      The recent 'Visualising the margins' exhibition saw the launch of the Visual, Embodied, and Arts-based Methodologies (VEM) network.

      Visualising the margins: Gendered perspectives' exhibition at King's College London

      Events

      01MarVisualising the Margins: Gendered Perspectives exhibition

      Visualising the Margins: Gendered Perspectives exhibition

      This exhibition presents the (audio)visual work of seven women academics at different stages of their career at King’s College London.

      Please note: this event has passed.