Fellows & Grantees

Tamer Abd Elkreem

African Peacebuilding Network: Individual Research Fellowships 2017
Project Title
Understanding Society-Development Nexus in Sudan: The Case of Escalating Tensions over the Gezira Scheme
Institutional Affiliation (at time of award)
Sociology and Social Anthropology

Bio

Tamer Mohammed Ahmed Abd Elkreem is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Khartoum, Sudan. He received a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Bayreuth, Germany, an MPhil in Anthropology of Development from Bergen University, Norway, and a BSc in Sociology and Social Anthropology from the University of Khartoum, Sudan. His PhD dissertation focused on the “Power Relations of Development,” which is the topic of his forthcoming book manuscript. He has published articles on “Whose Dam? The Danger of Narrowly Defined Development: The Case of Kajbar Dam, Northern Sudan,” in Modern Africa: Politics, History and Society; and “Seeing Like a State vs. Seeing Like a Local Community: The Case of Dam Construction in the Nubian Homeland,” with LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing.

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