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Stephanie Egan

B.A. (Hons) NUI, Galway (2000-2003).
Higher Diploma in Education (Hons), University College Dublin (2003-2004).
PhD Candidate NUI, Galway (2004 - present).
Room 112, Geography Department
Tel: 353 (0) 91 524411 ext. 3380
E-mail s.egan1nuigalway.ie

Biography

Stephanie entered NUI, Galway in 2000 undertaking a B.A. degree, studying Geography, Political Science and Sociology, English and Psychology, in her first year. For her degree Stephanie chose to study Geography, Political Science and Sociology, graduating with a Hons B.A. in 2003. Following the completion of her B.A. Stephanie entered the Education Faculty at University College Dublin to study the Higher Diploma in Education, which she graduated from with honours in 2004. Stephanie’s passion for both geography and politics prompted her to return to NUIG where she embarked on PhD research in 2004 under the direction of Dr. John Morrissey. Stephanie’s current PhD research is funded by the Lady Gregory Research Fellowship through the Arts Faculty at NUI, Galway.

Research Interests

Stephanie's main research interests focus on the Israel/Palestine conflict and explore broader questions of discourse, representation and the political and cultural use of geographical knowledges. She also has a particular interest in issues of social justice, solidarity, social change, activism, anti-imperialism and the work of Edward Said.

Academic Awards and Distinctions

2004-2006 Departmental Research Scholarship.
2005 NUIG Arts Faculty travel bursary.
2006 Doctoral Fellowship from Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS).
2006-2008 Lady Gregory Doctoral Fellowship, NUIG.

Presentations

2004 -Geographies of power: Knowledges and discourses of the Israel/Palestine Conflict. Presentation at the Glencree Postgraduate Conference, Wicklow, Ireland, 28/01/2004 - 30/01/2004.
2005 -Geographies of Domination and Resistance: Fieldwork experiences in the West Bank. Presentation at NUIG, Geography Seminar Series, November 2005.
2005 -Geographies of Domination Resistance: The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Community. Poster Presentation, Conference of Irish Geographers, NUIG, 06/05/2005 - 08/05/2005.
2006 -The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC): Biopolitics and geopolitical discourses. Presentation at European Social Science and History Conference (ESSHC), Amsterdam, 22/03/2006 - 25/03/2006.
2007 -Geographies of Power and the Ireland; Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Presentation at Annual Meeting of the AAG, San Francisco, 17/04/2007 -21/04/2007.
2008 - Geographies of Social Movements: Local resistances interchanging with global processes. Presentation at European Social Science and History Conference (ESSHC), Lisbon, 26/01/2008 – 01/03/2008
2008 -Suffering and solidarity: Postcolonial Ireland and the colonial present in Palestine. Presentation at Geographies of Solidarity Session (Organiser), Annual Meeting of the AAG, Boston 15/04/2008 – 19/04/2008
2008 What’s Activist? The next generation talks praxis. Panel session at Annual Meeting of the AAG, Boston 15/04/2008 – 19/04/2008

Current Research

Geographies of Domination/Resistance: The IPSC and the production of prioritised knowledge.

Stephanie's research is located in the public sphere of civil society and the role of social movements in creating an alternative arena of politics, which stands in contestation to more dominant and hegemonic forms of representation and knowledge. Her research is focused on the deconstruction of external knowledge and representations of the Israel-Palestine conflict through the lens of a transnational social movement the Ireland-Palestine Campaign (IPSC). The importance of representations, the construction of imaginative geographies and the production of knowledge along with various other geopolitical discourses are central to both her theoretical arguments and methodology.

Discourse involves the production, circulation, and legitimation of meanings through representations and practices that enter fully into the constitution of the world. Gregory, Said and Foucault are 3 authors whose ideas are central to the debate on power, knowledge and discourse. Said's (2003) discussion of Orientalism and Gregory's (2004, 2005) imaginative geographies closely parallels Foucault's (2001, 1980, 1978) power/knowledge argument: that a discourse produces, through different practices of representation (literature, etc.) a form of knowledge of the 'Other' (Orientalism) deeply implicated in the operations of power (imperialism). Central to the project are these arguments of knowledge production, discourse and representation.

The proposed research then, intends to investigate the production of imaginative geographies and the impact of alternative and marginalised knowledges in relation to the Israel-Palestine conflict, which stand in opposition to more dominant and accepted forums of representation and knowledge, for example the news media. The project centres on how local, subaltern resistances and political activity can negotiate space and power relations to interchange with global processes.

Selected Readings

Gregory, D. (2004) 'The Colonial Present', Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Routledge P. (1996) 'Critical Geopolitics and Terrains of Resistance', Political Geography, 15: 509-31.
Said, E. (1978) ' Orientalism', New York: Pantheon.
Sharp, J.P., Routledge, P. Philo, C. and Paddisson R. (2000) ' Entangelements of Power: Geographies of Domination/Resistance', London : Blackwell Publishers.
Pile S. and Keith M. (Eds) ' Geographies of Resistance', London: Routledge.
Young, Robert, J.C. (2001) Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction London: Blackwell Publishers.
http://www.ipsc.ie/

External Activities

Member of the Association of American Geographers.
Public Relations Officer of the Geography Society, NUIG.

Various pictures from Fieldwork conducted in the West Bank, Summer 2005.

Grandfather and grandson, Kalandia, West Bank.

The Wall, Abu Dees.

Palestinian refugee children playing in a camp, West Bank.

Checkpoint, West Bank

Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem

Discipline of Geography
National University of Ireland, Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland
Tel.: +353 (0)91 49 2643
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