Children's Geographies and Memories of War and Displacement

The Bangladesh liberation war in 1971 resulted in creating new citizenry and identities for people displaced by the cataclysmic event.

The PhD research will explore the interactions between war memories of displaced people, and those constituted since then - and still visible - in the materialities of school environments. The research will analyse how the spaces of schools (re)construct intergenerational narratives of war, displacement and citizenship. It will further locate collective memories generated by the States in the spaces of schools.                                     

The qualitative research draws from the interdisciplinary framework of children's geographies and memory studies.