Dr Milena Komarova
Phone: + 44 (0) 28 9097 5127
E-mail: m.komarova@qub.ac.uk
Office: Room 19.0G.003, 19 University Square
Dr Komarova’s primary research interests are ethno-national and urban conflicts, collective identities and place, discourse analysis and visual research methods. Since 2007 she has worked as a research associate on an ESRC-funded interdisciplinary research project, Conflict in Cities and the Contested State (www.conflictincities.org), that focuses on the role of the built environment and everyday life in transforming conflict in Belfast and Jerusalem. In this role she has researched the impact of the changing built environment and socio-economic structures of Belfast on communal divisions; and the challenges that the performance of conflict and conflict management strategies pose to long term conflict transformation processes.
Dr. Komarova is a co-leader of the ‘spatial’ subgroup of the Interdisciplinary Research Group ‘Social Justice and the Divided City: The policy relevance of conflict research in Belfast’. The group is based at Queen’s University Belfast and builds on existing across the University research and expertise on social divisions created and exacerbated by violent conflict in urban areas. The IRG is funded by the ISCTSJ to explore what works and why when it comes to realising social justice in a divided Belfast and to provide a forum for two-way knowledge exchange between QUB researchers and practitioners/policymakers.
Publications
- Komarova, M. (2010) ‘Imagining a ‘Shared Future’: Post-Conflict Discourses on Peace-Building’, 143 – 159. In K. Hayward and C. O’Donnell (eds.) (2010) Political Discourse and Conflict Resolution. Debating Peace in Northern Ireland. London: Routledge.
- O’Dowd, L. and Komarova, M. (2011) ‘Contesting Territorial Fixity? A Case Study of Regeneration in Belfast’, Urban Studies, 48 (10), 2013 - 2028.
- Komarova, M. and McKnight, M. (2013) ‘We Are Watching You Too’: Reflections on Doing Visual Research in a Contested City’ Sociological Research Online, 18 (1).
- Komarova, M. and O’Dowd, L. (2013) ‘Territorialities of Capital and Place in ‘Post-conflict’ Belfast’. In W. Pullan and B. Baillie (eds.) Conflict Centres: Jerusalem and Other Contested Cities. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan.
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