Amanda Hammar

Amanda Hammar is a Zimbabwean, currently based at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden, as a senior researcher coordinating a research programme on Political Economies of Displacement in Southern Africa. She worked for many years in development in southern Africa before embarking full time in research in the late 1990s. Her doctorate and subsequent work engages closely with questions of land, displacement and state making in the region. At the same time she retains a special interest in the dynamics and effects of political and economic crisis and transformation in Zimbabwe.