Jennifer Fluri

  • Professor
  • Department Chair
  • GEOGRAPHY
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GUGG 103b

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Education

Ph.D., Geography and Women’s Studies, Pennsylvania State University, 2005

M.S., Geography, Pennsylvania State University, 2001

B.F.A, Sculpture, Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA, 2001

Regional and Thematic Interests

South/Southwest Asia; feminist political geography; conflict security and development

Profile

I am a feminist political geographer concentrating on conflict, security, and aid/development in Afghanistan. In Colorado, I co-direct the  CU-Boulder Affordable Housing Research Initiative (CU-BAHRI), which focuses on community-driven and engaged research with organizations and individuals providing, working toward, or interested in affordable housing.

My doctoral research focused on the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), a clandestine feminist-nationalist organization. My interest in this organization was sparked by my interactions with their international supporters network in the United States. I examined the RAWA's methods of political action in Afghanistan and Pakistan, along with their effective use of the Internet and international support networks. From 2005 to 2012, my research focused on examining the spatial arrangements, interactions, and gender roles within the international "community" in Kabul, Afghanistan, compared to the "local" Afghan population. The geopolitics and geo-economics associated with the placement of International workers and their interactions with Afghans were central to this project. I also became increasingly interested in the differentiated methods used by Afghans and internationals to provide for their own security in spaces increasingly beset by political violence and a general state of insecurity. From 2012 to 2021, I worked on two projects focusing on women's social and political activism, influence, and power in Afghanistan. One project examined women's roles in the peace process in Afghanistan (2014-2019), funded by the United States Institute for Peace, and the second project focused on women's leadership and influence at different scales, from home and family to national political participation and governance, funded by the National Science Foundation.

Since the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan, I have turned my attention to Afghan refugees and asylum seekers in the U.S. and Canada, along with the status of women's rights and their social, political, and economic participation in Afghanistan.

Selected Publications

Books 
  • Fluri, Jennifer L. and Rachel Lehr. 2017. The Carpetbaggers of Kabul and Other American-Afghan Entanglements: Intimate Development, Geopolitics and the Currency of Gender and Grief. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.
  • Trauger, Amy and Jennifer L. Fluri.  2019. Engendering Development: Global Capitalism, Intersectionality and Inequality. New York and London: Routledge.
  • Oberhauser, Ann M., Jennifer L. Fluri, Risa Whiston, and Sharlene Mollett. 2018. Feminist Spaces: Gender and Geography in a Global Context. New York and London: Routledge.
  • Mitchell, Katharyne, Reece Jones, and Jennifer L. Fluri (Editors). 2019. Critical Geographies of Migration. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.  
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
  • Molana, Hanieh, Deirdre Conlon, Jennifer L. Fluri, and Nancy Hiemstra. 2023. “Conference organizing in the hybrid age: Lessons from the Fourth International Feminist Geography Conference” Professional Geographer. DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2023.2258395.
  • Fluri, Jennifer L. 2023. “Ask a Feminist: Jennifer Fluri Discusses the Gender Politics of the US Withdrawal from Afghanistan with Sandra McEvoy.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 48 (2): 509-526.
  • Fluri, Jennifer L. and Rachel Lehr. 2023. “Humanitarianism and Development in Afghanistan Since 1979” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History. Oxford University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.704.
  • Fluri, Jennifer L. 2023. Evacuation Lost: Activism and Scholarship in a time of Geopolitical Crisis” in Kate Boyer, LaToya Eaves, and Jennifer Fluri (Editors) Activist Feminist Geographies. Bristol University Press.
  • Fluri, Jennifer L. 2023. “Political Geography Progress Report III:” Progress in Human Geography. 47 (2): 365-373. DOI: 10.1177/03091325221150016.
  • Fluri, Jennifer L. 2022. Geographies of Humor.  In Oxford Bibliographies. Ed. Barney Warf. New York: Oxford University Press, DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199874002-0248.
  • Faria, Caroline and Fluri, Jennifer L. 2022. “Allure and the spatialities of war, nationalism and development: Towards a geography of beauty” Geography Compass. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12652.
  • Shrestha, Rupak and Fluri, Jennifer L. 2022. “Geopolitics of security and surveillance in Nepal and Afghanistan: A comparative analysis” Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. DOI: 10.1177/23996544221115952
  • Fluri, Jennifer L. 2021. “Political Geography II: Violence” Progress in Human Geography. DOI: 10.1177/03091325211062187.
  • Fluri, Jennifer L. 2020. “Political Geography I: Extractions” Progress in Human Geography, 45 (4): 855-865.
  • Fluri, Jennifer L., Abby Hickcox, Shae Frydenlund, and Ridge Zackary. 2020. “Assessing racial privilege through property: Geographies of Racial Capitalism” Geoforum. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.06.013
  • Fluri, Jennifer L. and Rachel Lehr. 2019. “We are Farkhunda”: Geographies of Violence, Protest and Performance” Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 45 (1): 149-173.
  • Fluri, Jennifer L. and Jessie Hanna Clark. 2020. “Political Geographies of Humor and Adversity” Political Geography, 68: 122-124.
  • Fluri, Jennifer L. 2019. “What’s so funny in Afghanistan? Jocular Geopolitics and the everyday use of humor in protracted precarity” Political Geography, 68: 125-130.
  • Fertaly, Kaitlin and Jennifer L. Fluri. 2019. “Producing Knowledge in Fieldwork: Research Associates, Geopolitics, and Production Credits.” The Professional Geographer, 71(1): 75-82.
  • Fluri, Jennifer L. and Amy Piedalue. 2017. Co-editors of themed section, “Embodying Violence: Critical Geographies of Gender, Race, and Culture.” Gender, Place and Culture, 34(4): 534-54.
  • Bagheri, Nazgol and Jennifer L. Fluri. 2019. “Gendered Circular Migrations of Afghans: Fleeing conflict and seeking opportunity” In Mitchell, K., R. Jones, and J.L. Fluri (Editors) Handbook of Critical Geographies of Migration. Edward Elgar Publishing. (130-141).
  • Lehr, Rachel and  Jennifer L. Fluri. 2019. “Mother Tongue for Mothers Only?” in S. Brunn & Roland Kehrein (eds.) The Changing World Language Map. Springer Press. DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-73400-2_57-1.

Updated October 2023