Nafisa Abdulhamid
PhD
Dr. Nafisa A. Abdulhamid is the Network Coordinator for the Research Network on Women, Peace and Security (RN-WPS). She completed her PhD at AV俱乐部 where she examined the extent to which civilian protection norms have been sustained, adapted, and localization in the African Union and within the African Union Mission in Somalia. Nafisa hopes to conduct research in meaningful ways that will continue to tell the untold, and often forgotten, stories of individuals and communities so that her findings can positively impact policy changes on intervention practices that will actually protect civilians. As such, she has published several books and articles on human security, gender and development, and civilian protection. Her most recent publications include 鈥淐ommercialized Micro-Credit: How Micro-Borrowing Betrayed the Poor鈥� (2019); 鈥淒isruptive Technology, Mobile Money and Financial Mobilization in Africa: MPesa as Kenya鈥檚 Solution to Global Financial Exclusion?鈥� (2020); and 鈥淥ffshoring in the pandemic age: Europe and the reconfiguration of externalized border controls鈥� (2021). Nafisa also holds a Bachelor of Arts (honors) and a Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of Alberta. Despite being professionally rooted in Canada, Nafisa maintains strong connections with her community in Mombasa, Kenya.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Humanitarian intervention, Rise of Salafi-jihadist organizations in the Middle East and North Africa, Gender and Development, Approaches to Development in the Global South (specifically Micro-Finance).
PUBLICATIONS
Abdulhamid, Nafisa. 鈥淭he Islamic State in Context: A Historical and Postcolonial Approach to Understanding its Emergence in Iraq and Syria.鈥� Education and Research Archive: University of Alberta Libraries. 2017.
Abdulhamid, Nafisa. 鈥淭he Securitization of Migration in the European Union.鈥� Potentia, October 2018. (forthcoming)
CONFERENCE PAPERS
Abdulhamid, Nafisa. 鈥淭he Islamic State in Context: A Postcolonial Approach to Understanding its Emergence in Iraq and Syria.鈥� MA thesis. University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB. May 2017.
Presenter, 鈥淟essons from Libya: Questioning our Responsibility to Protect,鈥� Canada 150: View from the Margins, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB. March 2017.
Presenter, 鈥淢uslims, Islam, and the Media,鈥� International Week, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB. February 2015.
Public Lecture 鈥淥peration Iraqi Freedom: Implications of the War on Terror on Iraqi Civil Society,鈥� Political Science. University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB. June 2016.
Presenter, 鈥淩ethinking Female Suicide Terrorism,鈥� Feminisms in Fast Forward: Gender and Politics in 鈥楺ueer Times,鈥欌�� University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB. March 2016.
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