Dr Elizabeth Mavroudi

Lecturer in Human Geography

Email: E.Mavroudi@lboro.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1509 223723

Fax: +44 (0) 1509 223930

Room NN.0.13c, Martin Hall , East Park

Current research interests

My research interests are focused around theories of migration, diaspora, transnationalism, and nationalism and the dynamic, grounded nature of people’s lives, identities and politics and the spaces and networks they create and maintain in the process. I am also interested in Palestine-Israel and debates on current issues and future solutions.

I have conducted research on the cultural and political identities and spaces of diasporic Palestinians in Athens, Greece and am currently conducting research on a variety of themes including the impact of UK immigration policy on higher education, issues of surveillance and the identity and incorporation of transnational migrants in rural and urban Greece.

My current research interests and publications are summarised below.

1. Migration, diaspora and transnationalism
   

Citizenship, political space, community and empowerment

• Palestinians in diaspora and notions of citizenship and community as well as their uses of informal political space to create unity, solidarity and potential empowerment

• Lifestyle migration and empowerment in Greece and Australia
  

Identities and migrant incorporation

• Palestinian negotiations of national identity and the homeland in diaspora

• Migrant identity and perceptions of incorporation and belonging in rural and urban Greece
  

Migration and education

• UK immigration policy and its impact on higher education (with Dr Adam Warren, Geography, Loughborough)

• Academic diasporas (with Dr Heike Jöns, Geography, Loughborough)
  

Surveillance and mobility

• Biometric Residence Permits for foreign nationals in the UK (with Dr Adam Warren, Geography, Loughborough)

• CCTV and privacy in residential areas (with Dr Raphael Phan, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Loughborough)

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2. Theorising Palestine-Israel
   

Current issues

• Theorising space, place and identity in Palestine-Israel

• The role and impact of diasporas on peace-making in Palestine-Israel
  

Future solutions

• Imagining alternatives to the two-state solution

Publications

1. Migration, diaspora and transnationalism

Theoretical papers

• Mavroudi, E. (2010) Nationalism, the nation and migration: searching for purity and diversity, Space and Polity, 14 (3) 219 - 233

• Mavroudi, E. (2007) Diaspora as process: (de)constructing boundaries, Geography Compass, 1, 3, 467-479.

Citizenship, political space, community and empowerment

• Mavroudi, E. (2010) Contesting identities, differences and a unified Palestinian community, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 28 (2) 239 – 253

• Mavroudi, E. (2008) Palestinians in diaspora, empowerment and informal political space, Political Geography, 27, 57-73

• Mavroudi, E. (2008) Palestinians and pragmatic citizenship: negotiating relationships between citizenship and national identity in diaspora Geoforum 39, 307-318

Identities

• Mavroudi, E. (2007) Learning to be Palestinian in Athens: constructing diasporic national identities (part of a special issue on the Geographies of transnational networks) Global Networks, 7, 4, 392-412.
  
  

2. Theorising Palestine-Israel

• Mavroudi, E. (2010) Imagining a shared state in Palestine-Israel, Antipode 42 (1) 1 - 236

• Mavroudi, E. (2008) Thoughts on anti-civilisational thinking: Edward Said’s ‘The Uses of Culture’, Geopolitics 13 (4) 753-756 (part of a special issue on Reflections on civilisational thinking)

Undergraduate teaching

First Year

Geographies of identity: Geographies of Identity and Difference (block on nation-states, migration and identity)

Second Year
Global Migration (course convenor)

Researching Human Geography (with Dr Heike Jöns)

Third Year

Mediterranean Rural Spaces fieldcouse: Central Crete (course convenor)

Geographies of Palestine-Israel (course convenor)

Administrative Responsibilities

International Exchange Officer

Ethics Officer