COSMOPOLIS. City, Culture
& Society
Free University Brussels
Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussel
Tel: + 32 (0) 2 629 37 41
Fax: + 32 (0) 2 629 33 78
cosmopolis@vub.ac.be
Dr. Nurhan ABUJIDI
Current position
Post doc researcher: ‘Military Urbanism and Resistance Architecture’ PhD Supervisor
Contact
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
WE DGGF, 6F326, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Email: anurhan@gmail.com
Diplomas
Ph.D. in Architecture, urban design and Planning, KULeuven, Belgium (2007) Master in Architecture of Human Settlements, KULeuven Belgium (2002) Master in Conservation of Historic Towns and Buildings, KULeuven, Belgium(2001) Bachelor in Architectural Engineering, Birzeit university, Palestine (1996)
Research subjects
Military Urbanism - Territoriality, sovereignty and bio politics Urban renewal, rehabilitation, and post war –reconstruction projects Issues of identity, gender, architecture in link with armed conflict and wars Development of deprived immigrant ‘s neighbourhoods
Teaching
Lecturer Urban Studies Module (VUB – COSMOPOLIS) (2007-2009):
Political Geography – Urbicide: the intentional destruction of urbanity Urban analysis course Urban Design Pre-thesis research seminar
Lecturer for the Master in Architecture of Human Settlements (2005-2007):
Research Methodology with Prof. Hilde Heynen Human Settlements in Development and Critical Review of human Settlements
Development Policies with Prof. Han Verschure
Built environment and armed conflict with Prof. Luc Reychler in the Master Peace research and conflict prevention
Supervision of PhD research
Cities after Crises Women’s needs in Public Spaces Transformation of public spaces in conflict zones Housing for the poor Social Exclusion modelling: Balance in cities’ global network
Supervisor and reader of several Master theses in the topics of urbicide/urban destruction, urban transformations and urban renewal:
Co-promoter of Hanna’ Motasem thesis on “The Return and Reintegration of IDPs in Sudan: Displacement, Identity Transformation and its Expression in Architecture and Urban Reality”, 2006 Co-promoter of Benoit Burquel thesis “ Sarajevo - Urbicide And The Image Of The City”, 2007 Reader and jury member of Isabel Verhaert thesis “Urbicide: Beirute 1976-2006”, 2006
Publications
Abujidi, Nurhan The Palestinian States of Exception and Agamben”, Contemporary Arab Affairs, Volume 2, Issue 2 April 2009 , pages 272 - 291 Abujidi, Nurhan, “Post-War Social Resilience & Place Remaking”, in Cultural Emergency, Prince Claus Funds for Culture and Development, (2010) in press Abujidi, Nurhan “Agamben and Foucault in the Occupied Palestinian Territories”, in “, states of exception and resistance in the Arab World, (2010), Sari Hanafi (ed.) Routdlege. Abujidi, Nurhan, “Surveillance and Spatial Flows”, in surveillance in Israel/Palestine, Abulaban, Y, Zurieq, E., Lyon,D. (Eds.), Routledge, 2010 Abujidi, Nurhan “The Palestinian occupied territories as laboratories of the 21st century spatial order”, paper for the workshop on States of Exception, Surveillance and Population Management: The Case of Israel/Palestine, Larnaca, Cyprus, December 6 - 7, 2008 Abujidi, Nurhan 2008, “Urbicide as a Condition of the State of Exception: Inquiry”, Beirut workshop on governmentally, power and the state of exception in the Arab world, Beirut, 29, August, Beirut. Public Interview-“Resisting Urbicide: Restoring Palestinian heritage”, , 6, September, 2008, interviewed by Yori Albrechts at Gemak, organized by Prince Claus Funds, Den Hag, Holland Newspaper Interview-”'Israëlische militaire machine pleegt urbicide”, NRC Handelsblad 20.09.2008, interview by Caroline Roelants, Holland
Vacancy: Assistant/Associate Professor Economic Geography
A tenured full/time position in economic geography is available at COSMOPOLIS (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) to begin October 2012.
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