Professor Dr. Virginie Mamadouh

Biography

Virginie Mamadouh is an Associate Professor of Political and Cultural Geography at the University of Amsterdam. Her research interests focus on various aspects of political cultural geography, specifically electoral geography, social movements, collective actions, and geopolitics. She is actively involved in examining the processes of globalization, territorialization, and bordering, particularly in the context of the European Union and the role of cities in global politics. Mamadouh has published extensively on national territorial identities, languages, citizenship, multilingualism, and migration. She has contributed to the FP7 research programme 'Mobility Inclusion Multilingual Europe' and teaches courses on political geography and the history of geography, advising both Master's and Ph.D. students in related fields. She has also served on the editorial boards of several academic journals including Geopolitics and GeoJournal. Mamadouh is currently involved in projects addressing urban multilingualism and geopolitical representations in various contexts.

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