Dr Negar Elodie Behzadi is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Bristol. Negar is a political geographer and film maker working at the intersection of feminist, postcolonial and decolonial thought. Her work explores lived and embodied experiences of exclusion, violence, and displacement, including in contexts of resource extraction. Her work has particularly explored feminist political ecologies of extraction in a coal mining community in Tajikistan (Central Asia) while also engaging in comparative counter-topographical work on ‘Extractive bodies’ (Postar and Behzadi, 2023). She is the co-editor of the book ‘Extraction/Exclusion’ (Postar et al, 2023) which challenges inclusionary narratives in resource extractive projects globally, and the co-director of two films on extractive violence - Nadirah: Coal woman (Behzadi and Jessop, 2020) and Komor: Journeys through the Tajik underground (Behzadi, 2019). More recently, Negar’s work has examined the links between Soviet modernity and colonialism from a feminist decolonial perspective.
