Dr Andrea Purdekova
MA (John Hopkins SAIS), MSc (Oxford), DPhil (Oxford)
Overview
Department of Development Studies
Senior Teaching Fellow
Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies
Member
- Name:
- Dr Andrea Purdekova
- Email address:
- ap70@soas.ac.uk
- Address:
- SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 289
- Office Hours:
- Friday 11am-1pm
Biography
Andrea Purdekova is a Senior Teaching Fellow at the Department of Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, where she convenes, lectures and tutors on the course ‘Introduction to Global Forced Migration.’ She also tutors on the MSc course ‘Issues in Forced Migration.’ In 2011, she was Visiting Lecturer at the Oxford Department of International Development, convening and lecturing on the course ‘Conflict and Forced Mobility in Eastern Africa: A Critical Exploration’ (part of the MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies).
Andrea holds a DPhil in Development Studies from Oxford (2011), an MSc (Distinction) in Forced Migration from Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre (2007) and an MA (Distinction) in International Relations from Johns Hopkins SAIS. Her DPhil dissertation explored the politics of unity building (kubaka ubumwe) in post-genocide Rwanda and drew on seven months of field research.
Her research interests include: political violence; the politics of humanitarianism; local encounters with power and the state (with special reference to Africa); ‘post-conflict’ reconstruction; reconciliation and transitional justice; nation- and unity-building in societies with legacies of large-scale violence; the politics of mobility, containment and stasis; return and repatriation; camps and liminality.
Recent publications include: ‘Violent Conflict, Population Mobility and Displacement: A Micro Analysis’ (a chapter with Roger Zetter in Destruction, Resilience and Transformation: A Micro-Level Perspective on the Dynamics of Violence and Conflict, Oxford University Press, 2012); ‘Civic Education and Social Transformation in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Forging the Perfect Development Subjects’ (a chapter in Rwanda Fast Forward: Social, Economic, Military and Reconciliation Prospects, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); ‘ “Even if I am not here, there are so many eyes:” Surveillance and State Reach in Rwanda’ (Journal of Modern African Studies, 2011); and ‘Rwanda’s Ingando Camps: Liminality and the Reproduction of Power (Oxford Refugee Studies Center Working Paper, 2011).
