About me
Danna Masad is a doctoral researcher at Tampere University, as part of the Dwelling with Crisis: Home at Spaces of Chronic Violence (HOMCRI) project. Her research examines shepherding as a practice of home-making and un-making in the occupied West Bank, bridging political geography, political ecology, landscape studies, and Indigenous studies. Danna is an active member of the Palestine Research Group, the Geographies of Coloniality and Everyday Violence Group (GoCEP), and the Space and Political Agency Research Group (SPARG) at Tampere University.
Research fields
Political geography, political ecology, Indigenous studies, settler colonial studies, landscape studies, architecture
Selected publications
Masad, D. & Dajani, M. (2024) “ʼinjaṣa Cisterns as Vessels of Knowledge: How Palestinian Traditional Building Knowledge Endures” in Arab Modern: Architecture and the Project of Independence, edited by Nadi Abusaada and Wesam Al Asali. Zurich: gta Verlag,
Dader, K., Ghantous, W., Masad, D., Joronen, M., Kallio, K. P., Riding, J., & Vainikka, J. (2024). Topologies of scholasticide in Gaza: education in spaces of elimination. Fennia - International Journal of Geography, 202(1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.11143/fennia.147002