Dr. Merav Amir is Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast.

https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/merav-amir/

Merav Amir’s work is strongly based in cultural and political geography, but extends far beyond it. Her early work examined the development of new reproductive technologies, in which she carefully unpacked the emergence of the discourse on the biological clock. More recently, she has focused on critical perspectives on security and border making, and geographies of identities and embodiment using feminist and queer theory. Her regional expertise is on Palestine/Israel. Her new book on ‘Futureless Geographies’ will soon be published with Duke University Press. She is also the Principle Investigator of an ESRC research project which explores the use of torture as a political technology in colonial settings, in collaboration with the Public Committee against Torture in Israel.

She is a highly committed long-time activist with several feminist anti-occupation organisations in Israel, and with the University and College Union (UCU), the trade union at her university, campaigning for an equality-driven work environment.

Highlights

• Amir, M. (forthcoming 2021). ‘Putting Regret on Ice: On Anticipated Regret and the Marketing of Egg Freezing’, Time Temporalities and Motherhood, eds. Abi McNiven and Rachel Colls, London: Ashgate.
• Amir, M. and H. Kotef (2018). ‘In-secure identities: On the securitization of abnormality’ Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 36(2): 236-254.
• Amir, M. (2014) ‘Women Speaking of National Security: The Case of Checkpoint Watch’, International Political Sociology 8(4): 363–378.
• Kotef, H. and M. Amir (2007). ‘(En)Gendering Checkpoints: Checkpoint Watch and the Repercussions of Intervention’, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 32(4): 973-996.
• Amir, M. (2006). ‘Bio-Temporality and Social Regulation: The Emergence of the Biological Clock’, Polygraph: An International Journal of Culture and Politics 18: 47-72.