Merav Kaddar

Merav Kaddar is an urban researcher and the Educational Programme Manager at IHS. Merav’s research interests comprise spatial justice, urban art and culture, urban citizenship, agency, gentrification and displacement, and the political theory of cities. She has extensively worked in international research collaborations and has practical experience as an urban planner, dealing with questions of heritage and divided cities. 

Merav is an Associate Member of the Collaborative Research Centre CRC 1265 ‘Re-Figuration of Spaces’. Before joining IHS, she was a Minerva Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Technische Universität, Berlin. Merav received her PhD (2020) from the Political Science Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for work on individuals’ urban agency. She was a Fellow at the joint interdisciplinary doctoral program "Human Rights under Pressure" under the auspices of Freie Universität Berlin and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She holds an MSc in Urban Studies from University College London (UCL) and an M.A. in Philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 

Her current work follows three main axes: 

• "Creative Urban Justice"– Artistic interventions in (nationally) conflicted cities as agents of spatial justice. 
• "Transitional Justice Cities" – How can and do cities contribute to national reconciliation schemes? 
• "Defining the practice of spatial justice" – Searching for a comprehensive definition of spatial justice between theory and practice.