Sophie Richter-Devroe | Hamad Bin Khalifa University
Hamad Bin Khalifa University

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Dr. Sophie Richter-Devroe

Dr. Sophie Richter-Devroe (PhD)


Associate Professor in Master of Arts in Women, Society and Development
Middle Eastern Studies Department (MESD)
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Master of Arts in Women, Society and Development

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  • Office locationOffice Number 146, LAS Building

Biography

Sophie Richter-Devroe is Associate Professor in the Women, Society and Development Program at the College of Humanities and Social Science, Hamad Bin Khalifa University.  

Sophie's broad research interests are in the field of everyday politics and women's activism in the Middle East. 

She is the author of “Women's Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance and Survival" (University of Illinois Press, 2018) which won the National Women's Studies Association/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize. The book analyzes Palestinian women’s creative and often informal everyday forms of political activism after the Oslo Accords. 
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/35ghr7wd9780252041860.html

Sophie also conducted research on the oral histories, memories and narratives of women from the often forgotten Palestinian Naqab Bedouin population, and has worked with Dr Ruba Salih (SOAS) on a joint research on Palestinian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon and the West Bank. More recently, she has led a research project on Syrian refugees in Italy and Greece. The project investigates the impact of the Syrian refugee crisis on the family and family-making practices in a transnational context. 

Sophie’s research is based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan and Greece.

 


Research Interests

  • Women, Gender and Politics in the Middle East (in particular women’s informal, everyday forms of activism and gendered approaches to war, peace, security, violence, conflict resolution and resistance)
  • Palestine Question (in particular Palestinian women, Palestinian refugees, Palestinian cultural production and the Palestinian Bedouin)
  • Oral History and Orality (in particular women’s oral histories, memories and narratives)
  • Refugees and Migration (in particular gendered approaches to migration with a focus on Palestinian and Syrian refugees)
  • Settler Colonialism and Indigeneity (in particular in the context of Palestine)

Experience

Associate Professor

Women, Society and Development Program, College of Humanities and Social Science, Hamad Bin Khalifa University

2018 - present
  • Honorary Research Fellow

    European Centre for Palestine Studies, University of Exeter, UK

    2016 - present
  • Associate Professor

    Department of Politics and International Relations, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies

    2016 - 2018
  • Visiting Scholar

    Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia University

    2015
  • Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Gender and Middle East Studies

    Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, UK

    2010 - 2016

Education

PhD in Middle East Politics

University of Exeter, UK

2010
  • MSc Development Studies

    SOAS, UK

    2005
  • BA Honours in Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies

    University of Cambridge, UK

    2004

Selected Publications

  • Books

  • Women’s Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance and Survival

    Illinois University Press 2018 2018
  • Edited Volumes/Special Issues

  • Settler Colonialism in Palestine, Special Issue of Interventions

    Special Issue of International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 21, No. 4. Amoruso, F., Gallois, W., Pappe, I., Richter-Devroe, S., eds., 2019 2019
  • قضاء بئر السبع: ابعاد سياسية واقتصادية وثقافية

    Jerusalem: Dar al Nashashibi, Nasasra, M., Kabha, M. and Richter-Devroe, S., eds., 2019 2019
  • Palestine beyond National Frames: Emerging Politics, Cultures, and Claims

    Special Issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol. 117, No 1. Richter-Devroe, S. and Salih, R. eds. 2018 2018
  • The Politics of Representation: the Case of the Naqab Bedouin

    Special issue of Journal of Palestine and Holy Land Studies, Vol. 15, No.1. Richter-Devroe, S., Nsasra M., Ratcliffe, R. eds. 2016 2016
  • The Naqab Bedouin and Colonialism

    London, Routledge Nsasra, M., Ratcliffe, R., Abu Rabia-Queder, S., Richter-Devroe, S. eds. 2014 2014
  • Cultures of Resistance: The Case of Palestine and Beyond

    Special Issue of Arab Studies Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1. Salih, R. and Richter-Devroe, S. eds. 2014 2014
  • Gender, Governance, and International Security

    London, Routledge Pratt, N. and Richter-Devroe, S. eds. 2013 2013
  • Critically Examining UNSCR 1325 on Women, Peace and Security

    Special Issue of International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol. 13, No. 4. Pratt, N. and Richter-Devroe, S. (eds) 2011 2011
  • Articles and Book Chapters

  • Women, Conflict and the Everyday: Feminist Ethnographies in Palestine and Kurdistan”

    in Researching the Middle East: Cultural, conceptual, theoretical and practical issues, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Richter-Devroe, S. and Buffon, V. 2021 2021
  • I’m a Refugee, but I live in Palestine, my Homeland’ Narratives of Home, Camp and Identity among Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank.

    in UNRWA at 70: Responding to crises and building a just future. London: Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) and the Al Jazeera Centre for Studies (AJCS). 2020 2020
  • UNSCR 1325: A Framework for Women’s Peace Activism in the Middle East?

    in Akbarzadeh, S. Routledge Handbook of the International Relations in the Middle East, London: Routledge. 2019 2019
  • كتابة حياة نساء النقب البدويات: تأملات في فرص ومآزق ومخاطر التاريخ الشفهي

    in Nasasra, M, Kabha, M and Richter-Devroe, S (eds)قضاء بئر السبع: ابعاد سياسية واقتصادية وثقافية Jerusalem: Dar al Nashashibi, 2019 2019
  • Introduction: Knowledge, Power, and the “Settler Colonial Turn” in Palestine Studies

    Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 21, No. 4, Amoruso, F, Richter-Devroe, S. and Pappe, I. 2019. 2019
  • Palestine beyond National Frames: Emerging Politics, Cultures, and Claims

    South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol. 117, No. 1. Salih, R., Richter-Devroe, S. 2018

    2018
  • Biography, Life History and Orality:

    A Naqab Bedouin Woman’s Narrative of Displacement, Expulsion and Escape in Historic Southern Palestine, 1930s-1970s HAWWA, Vol. 14, No. 3. 2017

    2017
  • Oral Traditions of Naqab Bedouin Women: Challenging Settler-Colonial Representations through Embodied Performance

    Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies, Vol. 15, No.1. 2016

    2016
  • Cultures of Resistance in Palestine and Beyond:

    On the Politics of Art, Aesthetics, and Affect Arab Studies Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1. Salih, R. and Richter-Devroe, S. 2014

    2014
  • Return Narratives of Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank – A Generational Perspective Palestinian Refugees:

    Different Generations, but One Identity, The Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Institute of International Studies, Birzeit University, Palestine. 2013

    2013
  • Like Something Sacred:

    Palestinian Refugees’ Narratives on the Right of Return Refugee Survey Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 2. 2013

    2013
  • Defending their Land, Protecting their Men:

    Palestinian Women’s Popular Resistance after the Second Intifada International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol. 14, No. 1. 2012

    2012
  • Palestinian Women's Everyday Resistance:

    Between Normality and Normalization Journal of International Women’s Studies, Vol. 12, No. 2. 2011

    2011
  • Here it is not about conflict resolution – we can only resist”:

    Palestinian Women’s Activism in Conflict Resolution and Nonviolent Resistance in Al-Ali, N. and Pratt, N. (eds) Women and War in the Middle East: Transnational Perspectives, London, Zed Books. 2009

    2009
  • Gender, Culture, and Conflict Resolution in Palestine

    Journal of Middle Eastern Women's Studies, Vol. 4, No. 2. 2008

    2008