UNSW Sydney, Australia
Naama Blatman is a Senior Lecturer and Scientia Fellow at the Cities Institute. She is an urban and political geographer researching across both Israel/Palestine and Australia. Naama’s work focuses on Indigenous land politics, planning and development, and infrastructural transformation in settler cities. She applies a comparative lens and works collaboratively with Indigenous communities to interrogate how settler colonial structures continue to impact urban life and how these structures can be and are intervened, reimagined and reconstituted towards liberatory and racially just futures.
Before joining UNSW, Naama held a research position at Western Sydney University (2022-2024), and a lecturer position at The University of Sydney (2019-2022). Naama is an alumnus of the Urban Studies Foundation (USF) Postdoctoral Fellowship (2020-2023).
Naama is an Editor of Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.