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Adam Ramadan MA MSc DPhil

College Teaching Officer and Fellow in Geography (Downing) and College Lecturer in Geography (Murray Edwards)

My research interests are in political and cultural geography, particularly on refugees and refugee camps in the Middle East. I am Director of Studies at Downing, and teach Human Geography at Downing, Murray Edwards and other colleges.

Biography

Career

  • September 2009 – present: College Teaching Officer and Fellow, Downing College; College Lecturer, Murray Edwards College.

Qualifications

  • MA Geography – University of Cambridge
  • MSc Modernity, Space and Place – University College London
  • DPhil Geography and the Environment – University of Oxford

Research

My research lies at the intersection between political and cultural geography. My work addresses geopolitics from the level of everyday, non-elite lives, seeking to understand how ordinary people understand and negotiate their position within broader geopolitical dynamics. I have focused particularly on refugees and the spaces of refugee camps as geopolitical sites, bodies and lives. My doctoral work at Oxford was based on almost six months of fieldwork in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. Specifically, I sought to understand how Palestinian identities are produced and reproduced in exile, how refugee camps are constructed as national, political and cultural spaces, and how Palestinian refugees negotiate national geographies of exclusion and regional geographies of conflict in their everyday lives.

Publications

Teaching

On the Geography tripos, I lecture and/or supervise on:

  • Part 1A - Paper 1 - Human Geography: People, Place and the Politics of Difference
  • Part 1B - Paper 1 - Cities
  • Part 1B - Paper 5 - Culture and Society
  • Part 1B - Geographical Ideas
  • Part 2 - Paper 2 - Changing Cultures of Risk