Dr Ivana Bevilacqua

Dr Ivana Bevilacqua is a Lecturer and Class Teacher in Political Geography in the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her work is rooted in critical race, settler colonial, and Indigenous studies, with expertise in infrastructural geographies of the MENA/SWANA region, particularly Palestine/Israel.

Ivana's research examines the violence of infrastructure in relation to colonialism, capitalism, and mobility, while also exploring its liberatory potential through subversive and unruly uses of infrastructure and property arrangements. She collaborates with Indigenous knowledge keepers, filmmakers, community groups, and labour movements to connect academic research with the pursuit of social justice.

In particular, through her work with the Visual Embodied Methodologies Network and the Embodied Lines project, Ivana collaborates with a collective of artists, activists, and researchers developing decolonial and art-based methodologies that bring together visual practice, ethnography, and political struggle to explore questions of violence, conflict, and social justice in the social sciences. This work seeks to reimagine how knowledge is produced, shared, and mobilised beyond academic institutions, fostering creative collaborations that challenge dominant narratives and open spaces for radical practices.

Ivana holds a PhD in Human Geography from King’s College London (funded by the LAHP studentship), an MSc in Middle East Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, and a Master’s in Representation and Public Opinion from the University Carlo Bo of Urbino. She has also held lecturer affiliations at the University College London, King’s College London and Birkbeck, specialising in political, human, and urban geography.

Ivana is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and was awarded Highly Commended for the LSE Teaching Excellence Award for “Inspiring Teaching”.

Publications

Published Articles in Peer-Review Journals

• Buyuklieva, B., Bevilacqua, I., Hubbard, P., Dennett, A., & Reades, J. (2024). “Life for Rent: Evolving Residential Infrastructure in London and the Rise of Built-to-Rent”. Urban Studies.
• Bevilacqua, I. (2021). “E-scaping Apartheid: Digital Ventures of Zionist Settler Colonialism”. Human Geography.
• Tillotson, M., Bevilacqua, I., Dawney, L., Emery, J., Mustafa, D., & Shaw, J. (2021). “Arendtian Geopolitics after the 2021 UK Defence Review”. Antipode.

Other Publications

• Bevilacqua, I. (2025). “Routes to Disruption: Supply Chain Sabotage in Contemporary Mobilisations for Palestine”. Zapruder.
• Bevilacqua, I. (2022). “En/Acting: Self-recognition through Insurrectionary Practice”. Arts Cabinet.
• Bevilacqua, I. (2021). “Re/Composing: Autonomous Cartographies of Indigenous Resistance”. Arts Cabinet.
• Bevilacqua, I. (2020), “Fragmenting: A Rhythmanalysis of Settler Colonialism”. Arts Cabinet.