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Polly Pallister-Wilkins is a political geographer and associate professor at the University of Amsterdam, specializing in the intersection of humanitarianism and injustice with a particular focus on mobility injustice. She conducts research on the term 'humanitarian borderwork', examining the roles of race and racism in humanitarianism and exploring possibilities for decolonization. Her scholarship broadly spans borderlands Political Geography, International Political Sociology, and Critical Security/Humanitarianism Studies, with regional expertise concentrated on the Mediterranean, especially Greece and the Middle East. She is the author of 'Humanitarian Borders: Unequal Mobility Saving Lives' published by Verso, which won the International Political Sociology Book Award in 2023. Pallister-Wilkins has contributed to numerous edited volumes and journals and holds a PhD from SOAS, University of London. Additionally, she is co-editor for Geopolitics and a member of the EISA Governing Board, demonstrating her engagement in both academic and applied research communities. Her work engages qualitative methods and ethnography to understand humanitarian narratives and their implications in the contexts of policy and practice.
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