Amina Nolte

Amina Nolte is a Doctoral Candidate and Research Associate at Justus Liebig University Giessen, affiliated with the CRC 138 'Dynamics of Security' (Subproject C05). Her work focuses on securitization, urban infrastructure, and Middle Eastern politics. She holds a Master of Arts in Middle Eastern Politics and Economics from Philipps Universität Marburg and a BA in Near Eastern Studies and Political Science from Martin Luther Universität Halle/Wittenberg.

Her research interests include Spatial Theory, Urban Research, Infrastructure Studies, and Postcolonial Theory, with a regional focus on the Middle East and Jerusalem. Notable works include comparative analyses of tramway projects in Casablanca and Jerusalem, and studies on infrastructural security governance.

• 2020: Published key works in Political Geography and Politikon on infrastructure and securitization
• 2018: Contributed to debates on state perception and infrastructure in Theorieblog
• 2016: Examined Jerusalem’s Light Rail as a political infrastructure in City journal

Awards include DAAD and DFG fellowships, along with a Leibniz-Zentrum research grant. She actively participates in academic networks like the 'Politics of Reproduction' research group and has co-organized interdisciplinary initiatives on global politics and spatial theory.

Her current project, 'Securitizing Infrastructure: governing through mobility and affect in Jerusalem', explores how infrastructure shapes security governance in contested urban spaces. Nolte has also engaged in ethnographic fieldwork and methodological discussions on research failure in international relations.