Assoc Prof
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Associate Professor
Geography
BIO
Kamalini Ramdas is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore. She is a feminist geographer who teaches courses in social theory, gender and geography. Her research interests include: queer and feminist theory, feminist pedagogy, geography education and LGBTQ+ advocacy research. Kamalini has published in journals such as Urban Studies, Environment and Planning A, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, and Gender Place and Culture. She has also co-edited Untying the Knot: Marriage and Reality in Asian Marriage (with Gavin Jones; Singapore: NUS Press, 2004) and Changing Landscapes of Singapore: Old Tensions, New Discoveries (Singapore: NUS Press, 2013). Kamalini has worked with various groups in the arts, sports and education sectors. She has more than 20 years of experience working with the LGBTQ+ community in Singapore. She is committed to studying how community politics and activism can produce alternative spaces of care and possibility for marginalised groups in society. She was NUS Centre for the Arts inaugural academic advisor for the NUS Arts Festival (NAF) in 2020, 2021 and 2022, and Keynote Speaker for Singapore Writers Festival in 2022 (Feminist Dreaming, The Future From Here).
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE APPOINTMENTS
- Deputy HeadARTS & SOC SC, GEOGRAPHY, SINGAPORE1 Jul 2022