Dr Ivana Bevilacqua

Ivana is an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Politics and International Studies.

Ivana’s work is rooted in critical race, settler colonial, and Indigenous studies, with expertise in infrastructural geographies of the MENA/SWANA region, particularly Palestine/Israel.

She is especially interested in investigating the violence of infrastructure in relation to colonialism, capitalism, and mobility, while also exploring its liberatory potential through subversive and unruly uses of infrastructure and property arrangements. Ivana collaborates with Indigenous knowledge keepers, artists, filmmakers, community groups, and labour movements to connect academic research with the pursuit of social justice.

Her postdoctoral research focuses on political violence and infrastructural governance in ‘48 Palestine, with particular attention to the “Triangle region”. Her work: (1) investigates the mechanisms and logics of dispossession shaping Israel’s infrastructural projects and urban planning in areas where Indigenous Palestinians continue to live; (2) analyses the network of governing practices aimed at immobilising the Indigenous Palestinian population; and (3) highlights the everyday engagement and resistance of Indigenous Palestinian communities against infrastructural projects intended to erase them within a settler colonial context.

Ivana holds a PhD in Human Geography from King’s College London and an MSc in Middle East Politics from SOAS. She has also held lecturer affiliations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, University College London, and Birkbeck, specialising in political, human, and urban geography.

Circulation and infrastructure; race and space; imperialism and urban life; planning and social ordering.