Dr Rafeef Ziadah
Senior Lecturer in Politics and Public Policy (Emerging Economies)
Research interests
- International development
- Politics
Contact details
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
Research
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.
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, 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.
Critical Global Capitalism Studies Collective
A collective bringing critical global capitalism research, teaching and activism at King's together under one umbrella to provide a forum for collaborations, events, and discussions, and to forge connections with the media, the policy world, and other like-minded groups.
Social Justice research group
Identifying the societal impacts of rapid economic and technological change, as well as the societal impacts of intensified engagement in global networks and mobilities.
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.
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.
Events
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Research
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.
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, 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.
Critical Global Capitalism Studies Collective
A collective bringing critical global capitalism research, teaching and activism at King's together under one umbrella to provide a forum for collaborations, events, and discussions, and to forge connections with the media, the policy world, and other like-minded groups.
Social Justice research group
Identifying the societal impacts of rapid economic and technological change, as well as the societal impacts of intensified engagement in global networks and mobilities.
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.
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.
Events
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.