Dr. Nisha Shah

Biography

Nisha Shah is an Associate Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. Her research explores the role of infrastructures and artifacts in world politics, uncovering how technological devices and physical geographies come to take on particular forms and functions within the normative and ethical frameworks of governance and war. Currently, she is working on several projects, including a book on the history of territory which explores the emergent relationship between physical landscapes and political legitimacy. Additionally, she is undertaking a genealogy of lethality, which uncovers the ethics of killing in war and how these take shape alongside the calibration of weapons technologies. Nisha Shah has published articles in renowned journals such as Security Dialogue, Critical Studies on Security, International Political Sociology, Political Geography, and Globalizations. She has also contributed as a co-editor to 'Metaphors of Globalization: Mirrors, Magicians, Mutinies' (Palgrave, 2008). Before joining the School of Political Studies, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University and a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics.

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