Dr Eva-Lotta Hedman

Dr Eva-Lotta Hedman is a Research Fellow of the Southeast Asia International Affairs Programme.

Dr Hedman (Cornell University, Ph.D. 1998) has focused much of her recent research on questions of refuge and governmentality, citizenship and migration, as well as dynamics of conflict, violence and internal displacement, with particular reference to Southeast Asia. She has also maintained an enduring interest in the politics of civil society, social movements and comparative democratisation in the region, and beyond.

Most recently, she has held an appointment as senior research fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre. She has also been visiting scholar at the UCLA Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, the Cornell Southeast Asia Program and the Centre for International Studies at University Sains Malaysia (USM).

She is the author of 'In the Name of Civil Society: from free election movements to people power in the Philippines' (University of Hawai'i Press, 2006), and the editor of 'Conflict, Violence and Displacement in Indonesia' (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2007). She serves on the editorial board of ‘Government & Opposition’, and is series editor of Berghahn Books on Forced Migration (Oxford).

Areas of Expertise

• Refuge and Governmentality
• Southteast Asia
• Comparative Democratisation
• Civil Society and Contentious Politics
• Migration and Citizenship

Recent Publications

• 'Introduction: representation and displacement'. Journal of refugee studies (2009) [with Graeme Rodgers] 
• 'World refugee day in one country: celebrating refugees and UNHCR in Malaysia'. Journal of refugee studies (2009)
• Tsunami in a time of war: aid activism and reconstruction in Sri Lanka and Aceh. (Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Centre for Ethnic Studies, 2009) [editor with Malathi de Alwis]
• Governmentality, displacement and politics: a witches brew in post-tsunami Aceh, Indonesia'. In: de Alwis, Malathi and Hedman, Eva-Lotta E., (eds.) Tsunami in a time of war: aid activism and reconstruction in Sri Lanka and Aceh. (Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Centre for Ethnic Studies, 2009)

News

• 'Transformative Politics: Counterhegemony and Democracy'
  Research Fellow, Dr Eva-Lotta Hedman will be guest lecturing at the University of Olso on Monday 1 November 2010.
• Migrant Workers and Human Rights In Southeast Asia
  Amnesty International has focused on migrant rights in Malaysia and Thailand, two main receiving countries of migrant workers in Southeast Asia. The vast majority of migrant workers in Thailand are from Myanmar, some of whom are also potentially refugees fleeing from persecution.
• Migrant Workers and Human Rights in Southeast Asia
  Video Interview with Donna Guest of Amnesty International, full podcast of the event and blog post now available.
• 'Humanitarianism, Praxis and Refugees in Malaysia'
  SEAP Research Fellow, Dr Eva-Lotta Hedman will be speaking at the University of Oxford - Department of International Development's RSC Public Seminar Series on 20 October 2010.
• LSE IDEAS on ABS-CBN News: Philippine elections - Pinoys in London note lessons from May 10 polls
  While the last leg of election mechanisms was underway and votes were being canvassed in the Philippines, scholars and members of the academic community in London and some Filipino community leaders embarked on a panel discussion to assess the recently-concluded Philippine elections.
• IDEAS Today - Issue 3: April 2010
  Refugees in Malaysia by Eva-Lotta Hedman, What Next for Iran? by George Lawson, Drifting or Rifting? America and Europe in the age of Obama by Gregorio Bettiza, New fuel for the Falklands dispute? by George Adelman, Extending Models of Diversity: Politics and Society in Trinidad and Tobago Leslie James, and more...
• New Grant from the Association for Southeast Asian Studies UK
  Dr Eva-Lotta Hedman, one of the Programme's research fellow, has recently secured a grant from the British Academy-sponsored Research Committee of the Association for Southeast Asian Studies UK (ASEASUK). The grant was awarded in support of a research project titled 'Improving the Lives of (Other) Others: NGOs and Refugees in Malaysia.' This project forms part of Dr Hedman's larger research programme on refuge and governmentality, migration and citizenship, which has also enjoyed generous support by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford.