معرفی
Professor Daanish Mustafa is a Professor in Critical Geography at King’s College London’s Department of Geography, part of the School of Social Science and Public Policy. He holds a BA from Middlebury College, an MA from the University of Hawai’i Manoa, and a PhD from the University of Colorado. Previously, he taught at George Mason University and the University of South Florida before joining King’s, where he received the School’s teaching excellence award.
His research focuses on critical water geographies, environmental hazards, climate risk, and geographies of violence and terror. He emphasizes post-structuralist approaches, particularly Hannah Arendt’s performative politics, to explore topics like gender performativity in Pakistan, urban horticulture cultural politics, and hydro-social territorialization in Jordan. His work is funded by organizations including NERC, IDRC, and the Belmont Forum.
Teaching includes undergraduate and postgraduate courses on hazardscapes, terrorism geographies, and development-environment linkages in the Global South. He supervises PhD students on themes like water equity, disaster risk reduction, and spatiality of violence. His policy contributions include flood response strategies for Pakistan and work with UNDP, DFID, and USIP.
Research affiliations include the King’s Water Centre, the Contested Development Group, and the Political Ecology, Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services (PEBES) initiative. Current projects explore artificial ice reservoirs in high-altitude regions and interdisciplinary resilience frameworks.
