{"id":301,"date":"2019-12-30T15:54:35","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T15:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/?page_id=301"},"modified":"2020-01-12T11:18:37","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T11:18:37","slug":"dr-negar-elodie-behzadi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/dr-negar-elodie-behzadi\/","title":{"rendered":"Negar Elodie Behzadi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dr Negar Elodie Behzadi is Lecturer in the Social Science of International Development, and co- founder and convenor of the VEM Network. Dr Behzadi is a French\/Iranian feminist geographer of environment and development, trained in France and the UK. For several years, she was an environmental and social executive for a multilateral development project in Southeast Asia. In 2012, she graduated with a first-class degree in Environment and Development (MA Geography) at King\u2019s College London. She then carried on her academic training with a DPhil in Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford (2018).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Negar&#8217;s doctoral research explored the working lives of men, women and children in a context of politico-ecological transformation in post-Soviet Tajikistan. In observing gendered work and resource struggles, Negar&#8217;s research built a complex understanding of how gender comes into being in this post-Soviet Muslim context, marked by significant political and environmental shifts. Her work investigated how gender, Muslimness and tradition were reconfigured in the wake of broader politico-ecological transformations and their local impacts through work and resource struggles.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Negar is also an aspiring documentary filmmaker \u2013 interested in the connections between visual and embodied approaches to research and social sciences methodologies. She is currently working on a short documentary based on her ethnographic work in Tajikistan, and is also coordinating the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/research\/profile\/visual-embodied-methodologies\">Visual and Embodied Methodologies (VEM)<\/a>\u00a0network at King\u2019s.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dr Behzadi is working with an artist to create an animated ethnographic portrait based on her research of stigmatised female coal miners in Tajikistan. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/news\/using-animation-to-raise-awareness-of-issues-of-gender-and-exclusion\">https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/news\/using-animation-to-raise-awareness-of-issues-of-gender-and-exclusion<\/a>).<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Negar Elodie Behzadi is Lecturer in the Social Science of International Development, and co- founder and convenor of the VEM Network. Dr Behzadi is a French\/Iranian feminist geographer of environment and development, trained in France and the UK. For several years, she was an environmental and social executive for a multilateral development project in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/dr-negar-elodie-behzadi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Negar Elodie Behzadi&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":734,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-301","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/734"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/301\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}