Dr. Ivana Bevilacqua

Biography

Ivana Bevilacqua is a lecturer in the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her research is rooted in critical race theory, settler colonial studies, and Indigenous studies, with a particular focus on infrastructural geographies in the MENA/SWANA region, notably Palestine/Israel. Ivana's work investigates the intersections of violence, infrastructure, colonialism, capitalism, and mobility, seeking to explore the liberatory potential of subversive and unruly uses of infrastructure within property arrangements. She collaborates with Indigenous knowledge keepers, filmmakers, community groups, and labor movements to connect academic research with social justice pursuits. Ivana's engagements include the Visual Embodied Methodologies Network and the Embodied Lines project, where she works alongside a collective of artists, activists, and researchers to develop decolonial art-based methodologies. These efforts aim to fuse visual practice, ethnography, and political struggle in order to address pressing questions of violence, conflict, and social justice in the social sciences. Her academic background includes a PhD in Human Geography from King’s College London, an MSc in Middle East Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, and a Master’s in Representation and Public Opinion from the University Carlo Bo Urbino. Ivana has held lecturer positions at University College London, King’s College London, and Birkbeck, specializing in political, human, and urban geography. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK and received the Highly Commended LSE Teaching Excellence Award for “Inspiring Teaching.”

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