Dr Nabeela Ahmed

School of Geography and Planning

Lecturer in Human Geography

Nabeela Ahmed
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nabeela.ahmed@sheffield.ac.uk
F3, Geography and Planning Building

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Dr Nabeela Ahmed
School of Geography and Planning
F3
Geography and Planning Building
Winter Street
91探花
S3 7ND
Profile

Nabeela was awarded a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Sussex. Her thesis was based on ethnographic and survey fieldwork, working with labour migrants and access to state welfare in two of India's fastest growing cities.

Prior to her PhD, Nabeela worked as a practitioner for NGOs including BRAC in Bangladesh and I-Partner India in India.

She completed her MA in International Relations at Boston University and BA in English at the University of Cambridge.

Research interests

As a feminist critical geographer focused on postcolonial contexts, Nabeela's research interests and experience intersect three key domains: mobilities, borders and citizenship; urban inequalities (around class, gender and race); and digitisation and governance.

Nabeela's research is based mainly on ethnographic and collaborative methodologies, driven by a politics of social justice, and has to date been focused in South Asia.

Publications

Journal articles

  • Ahmed N, Baker A, Bhattacharya A, Cawood S, Cabrera Pacheco AJ, Daniel MM, Grandi M, Grimaldo-Rodr铆guez CO, Guma PK, Habermehl V , Higgins KW et al (2022) . CITY: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action, 26(4), 562-586. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Deshingkar P, Naik M & Ahmed N (2022) COVID-19 and India's Ongoing Migration Fiasco Some Lessons for Policy and Research. Economic and Political Weekly, 57(16), 30-35. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Datta A & Ahmed N (2020) . Architectural Design, 90(4), 104-111. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Datta A & Ahmed N (2020) . Geoforum, 110, 67-76. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ahmed N () Infrastructure as territorial stigma: labour migrant exclusions in the Indian city. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. RIS download Bibtex download

Chapters

  • Ahmed N & Datta A (2024) 鈥淒irty Phone鈥: Infrastructures of violence against women in urban Kerala In Truelove Y & Sabhlok A (Ed.), Gendered Infrastructures Space, Scale, and Identity RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ahmed N (2020) Vulnerability and social protection access In Rajan I & M S (Ed.), Handbook of Internal Migration in India (pp. 720-737). SAGE RIS download Bibtex download
Teaching interests

Nabeela's teaching interests are mutually informed by her research interests and overall agenda to address historically embedded and rapidly evolving inequalities of class, race, citizenship and gender.

Nabeela teaches across:

  • Urban geographies
  • Geographies of the 'global south'
  • Geographies of development
  • Feminist geographies and gender
  • Postcolonial geographies and 'race'