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 School of Geography and the Environment

Dr Patricia Daley

Academic Profile

Dr Patricia Daley is a University Lecturer in Human Geography. She is also an Official Fellow and Geography Tutor at Jesus College, Oxford. Her previous academic appointments were at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, Loughborough University and Pembroke College, Oxford. She has taught a range of human geography topics, as well as specialist courses on African societies and environments. At Jesus College she held the administrative posts of Tutor for Admissions (1999-2002) and Tutor for Women (1998-2004).

As a consequence of her research on the state and violence in Central Africa, she was invited as a keynote speaker to the CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa) Governance Institute, held in Dakar, Senegal in 2002. She has also given lectures to British military personnel on the crisis in Central Africa at peace-keeping training courses held at the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford. She is a member of the interdisciplinary advisory board of the International Relations Journal, St Antony's International Review.

With respect to her interest in African political ecology, She was awarded an ESRC interdisciplinary seminar grant on African Environments. She chaired the African Environments Programme for the academic year 2006-7.

She acted as a consultant for an internationally-screened documentary film on the genocide in Rwanda (Rwanda: the Forgotten Tribe). Her charitable work includes acting as a member of the advisory panels of the Windle Trust (formerly the Hugh Pilkington Charitable Trust), a non-governmental organization that provides scholarships to African Refugees and of 'Attaining the Peak', a student-led initiative to provide academic support and mentoring for youths in Oxford.

Dr Daley is a peer reviewer for Political Geography, Third World Quarterly, CODESRIA Journals, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, Journal of Southern African Studies, Journal of Refugee Studies, Ethics, Place and Environment, and the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. She has also peer reviewed grants for the ESRC and DfID.

Current Research

Her principal research interests are on the intersection between global geo-politics, militarism, masculinities, genocidal violence, humanitarianism and forced migration in East and Central Africa. She is also interested in the dynamics of land tenure, resource extraction and environmental change from a political ecology perspective. Her other projects include an examination of the condition of new African diaspora communities in Great Britain, focusing on issues relating to their spatial distribution, socio-economic status and housing characteristics, and the negotiation of their multiple identities, especially that arising from the experience of trans-racial fostering.

Selected Research Projects (since 2001)

Teaching

Undergraduate teaching

Dr Daley teaches the core Migration and Diasporas course for the Preliminary Examination, the Final Honour School Special Subject course African Societies: Geographies of Inequalities and Development, and delivers human geography tutorials for the core courses for Jesus College students.

Postgraduate teaching

Dr Daley teaches 'African Environments' (Masters option, available to all Masters' students in the International Graduate School and to those taking the MSc in African Studies). She also lectures on 'Rwanda since 1994' for Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) students.

Current graduate students include:
  • Yonique Campbell
    Security sector reform in a developing country context: the case of Jamaica
  • Leander Kandilige
    Transnationalism and the Ghanaian diaspora in the UK: Regional inequalities and the developmental effects of remittances at the sub-national level
  • Eelke Kraak
    Dams of Damocles: between rivers, states and geopolitics
  • Eveliina Lyytinen
    The politics of space in the governance of urban refugees in Kampala, Uganda
  • Amber Murrey-Ndewa
    An analysis of spatial and structural violence along the Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline
D.Phil. students successfully completing since 2001:
  • Kamakshi Mubarak (2011)
    Everyday networks, politics and inequalities in post-tsunami recovery: fisher livelihoods in south Sri Lanka
  • Mike Riddell (2010)
    Hunting, livelihoods and conservation in northern republic of Congo
  • Daniel McGahey (2009)
    Impact of veterinary fences on environment and society in northern Botswana.
  • Emmanuel Nuesiri (2009)
    Cameroon: case study of the Bimbia-Bonadikombo community forest
  • Hassan Sachedina (2009)
    Conservation and livelihood transformation: drivers of land use change and pastoral livelihoods in Simanjiro District, Tanzania.

  • Andrea Purdekova (2011) (registered in Development Studies)
    Political projects of unity in divided communities: discourse and performance of Ubumwe in post-genocide Rwanda
  • Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon (2011) (registered in the Department for International Development)
    Displacing AIDS: therapeutic transitions in Northern Uganda

Selected Publications

Books
Papers and Book Chapters
Papers presented at Seminars and Conferences
  • 'Race, Space and Scale: Rethinking Security and Violence in Burundi', paper presented at Conference on Violence and the Body, University of Oxford, May 2007.
  • 'The Hierarchical Geographies of Peace and Security: Neo-liberal Post-War Reconstruction in Burundi', Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, 21 April 2007, San Francisco.
  • 'Power, Space and Biopolitics: An Anatomy of Violence in Burundi', African studies seminar, University of Oxford, 22 January 2007.
  • 'Beyond the liberal Peace: Conflict Resolution in Burundi', Seminar paper presented at School of International Relations, St. Andrews University, October 2006.
  • 'Great Lakes: Peacekeeping and Peace-Building Challenges', seminar paper presented at workshop on African Security & Peacekeeping in Complex Political Emergencies, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, 24-28 October 2005.
  • 'Militarism, Masculinity and Violence in Central Africa: Towards an Understanding of Conflict in Burundi', paper presented at St. Antony's College, 29 June 2005.
  • 'What are the prospects for peace and an end to genocidal violence in Burundi', paper presented at North-East Africa seminar, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford, June 2005.
  • 'Great Lakes: Challenges to Peacekeeping and Peace-Building', seminar paper presented at Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, 26 October 2004.
  • 'Negotiating ethnicity in post-conflict Burundi', paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, March 2004, Philadelphia.
  • 'Ethnic Challenge to the African State, the Case of Burundi', Invited keynote speaker to the CODESRIA Governance Institute, Dakar, Senegal, August 2002.
  • 'Spatialities of Forced Migration: geography's contribution', paper presented at the departmental seminar series, Syracuse University, New York State, March 2001.
  • 'Population, Displacement and the Humanitarian Aid regime: The Experience of Refugees in East Africa', at conference on Moving People: Trends in Population Mobility in Africa, African Studies Centre, University of Leiden, June 2000.
  • Displacement and Marginality: African Refugees in the 21st Century, Sam Nolutshungu Memorial Lecture, Human Sciences Resources Council, Democracy and Governance, Pretoria, South Africa, April 2000.