Susana Galán
Ramón y Cajal Assistant Professor
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Biography
Susana Galán is a Ramón y Cajal Assistant Professor at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals. She has a PhD in Women’s and Gender Studies from Rutgers University (USA), a Master in European Studies from the Europa-Universität Viadrina (Germany), and a BA in Journalism from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Her research adopts an intersectional, interdisciplinary, transnational, and social justice approach that draws upon feminist and queer theory, affect theory, feminist media studies, and feminist geography. Her work has been published in Signs: Journal of Women in Gender and Society, Gender, Place & Culture, the Journal of International Women’s Studies, the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research, the Observatori del Conflicte Social, and the books Young People Shaping Democratic Politics (Palgrave), Freedom Without Permission: Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions (Duke University Press), and Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings (Terreform).
Between 2022 and 2024, she coordinated the COST Action Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab (PWILL), of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology, and the project “Gender equality qualities of the platform economy. A framework of analysis,” funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
Background and education
- (2018) PhD in Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, USA
- (2005) Master in European Studies, Europa-Universität Viadrina, Germany
- (2000) BA in Journalism, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Professional memberships & affiliations
- International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE)
- Association for Middle East Women's Studies (AMEWS)
Courses
Research
Research interests
- Gender & Sexuality
- Feminist geography
- Feminist economics
- Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region
IBEI Research Clusters
Selected publications
- 2024.Gender-Based Violence in the Context of the Future of Work: A Qualitative Review of the Literature.Trauma, Violence, & Abuse,Link
- 2023.Graffiti narratives: securitization, beautification, and gender in 25 January Revolution Cairo.Gender, Place & Culture,30(12):1733-1758Link
- 2023.From the Streets to the Campus: The Institutionalization of Youth Anti-Sexual Harassment Activism in Post-Coup Egypt.In:
Ian Rivers and C. Laura Lovin (Eds.)
.Young People Shaping Democratic Politics: Interrogating Inclusion, Mobilising Education.pp: 83-108.Link - 2023.Sexual Governmentality and the Woman at/as Risk in Revolutionary Egypt.Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society,48 (4):849–871Link
- 2021.Translating across Genres: A Conversation with Sherine Hamdy and Tarek Moustafa Abdel-Salam.Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies,17(1):147-156Link
- 2017.Action-Oriented Responses to Sexual Harassment in Egypt: The Cases of HarassMap and WenDo.Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies,13(1):154–167Link
- 2016.Beyond the Logic of State Protection: Feminist Self-Defense in Cairo after the January 25 Revolution.Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research,2(1):71-89Link
- 2016.From the Square to the Streets: Sexual Harassment and Assault in Cairo After the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.In:
Deen Sharp & Claire Panetta (Eds.)
.Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings..New York:Terreform.Link - 2016.Cautious Enactments: Interstitial Spaces of Gender Politics in Saudi Arabia.In:
Frances Hasso & Zakia Salime (Eds.)
.Freedom Without Permission: Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions.Durham:Duke University Press.Link - 2014.'Cuerpos rebeldes' contra la escalada del acoso y el asalto sexual en las calles de Egipto tras la revolución de 2011.Anuario Del Conflicto Social, 3,Link
Conferences
- Conference presentation: “Shaping Feminist Economic Analyses of and Responses to the Digital Economy: The VIII Congreso de Economía Feminista”, IAFFE Annual Conference, Rome, 2024.
- Invited lecture: “An Archive of Disappearing Practices: Activism Against Public Sexual Violence in January 25th Revolution Egypt.” California State University Long Beach (USA), 2020.
- Conference presentation: “Fear, Golden Cages, and the Woman At/As Risk in Post-Revolution Cairo.” Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting, San Antonio (USA), 2018.
- Conference presentation: “Tactical Strategies for the Enactment of Experimental Utopias in Cairo.” National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Annual Conference, Atlanta (USA), 2018.
- Conference presentation: “Sexual Governmentality and Risk-Taking Activism Against Public Sexual Violence in Post-January 25 Egypt.” World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Sevilla, 2018.
- Invited lecture: “Deconstructing the Woman at Risk/Woman as Risk Dichotomy: Lessons from Activism against Public Sexual Violence in Post-Revolution Egypt.” Yale University (USA), 2017.
- Conference presentation: “L’ús de ‘taharrush’ als mitjans de comunicacio d’Egipte i Europa.” I Jornades sobre l’Assetjament Sexual de Segon Ordre, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, 2016.
- Conference presentation: “Al-Shawāriʿ Limīn? Whose Streets? On Public Space, Sexual Violence, and the Memory of the Revolution in Post-Revolution Cairo.” Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting, Boston (USA), 2016.
- Conference presentation: “‘I Dream Of’: Imagining an Egypt Without Sexual Harassment.” National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Annual Conference, Montréal (Canada), 2016.
- Conference presentation: “Reclaiming Women’s Right to Public Space: Activism Against Public Sexual Violence in Post-2011 Egypt.” International Conference on Feminist Geographies and Intersectionality, Barcelona, 2016.
- Invited lecture: “Dreaming Digitally: Gender Politics and Online Spaces after the ‘Arab Spring.’” American University of Beirut, (Lebanon), 2016.