These are the peer-reviewed journal articles I have published.

 

They are available online through the hyperlinks provided. If you experience problems accessing them, I will happily provide them to you by email if you send me a request via contact@norastel.com


I have written book reviews for Middle East Policy, Antipode and International Migration Review


I have acted as a peer reviewer for the following journals: and publishers

  • Africa Journal
  • Anthropological Quarterly
  • Antipode
  • Area
  • British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
  • Conflict and Society
  • Crime Media Culture
  • Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
  • Environment and Planning F: Philosophy, Theory, Models, Methods and Practice
  • Geopolitics
  • Global Policy
  • International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
  • International Political Sociology
  • International Studies Quarterly
  • Journal of Human Rights
  • Journal of Humanitarian Affairs
  • Journal of Illicit Economies and Development
  • Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies
  • Journal of Refugee Studies
  • Journal of Urban Affairs
  • Middle East Journal
  • Nationalism and Ethnic Politics
  • Palgrave Macmillan
  • Political Geography
  • Politics
  • Politics and Governance
  • Review of International Political Economy
  • Small Business Economics
  • Social and Cultural Geography
  • Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism
  • Territory Politics Governance
  • International Spectator
  • Third World Quarterly

JOURNAL ARTICLES

 

2023     |    MIGRATION POLITICS

Strategic Non-Regulation as Migration Governance (with Katharina Natter and Kelsey P. Norman)


2022     |    GEOPOLITICS

EU Engagement with Contested Refugee Returns in Lebanon: The Aftermath of Resilience (with Tamirace Fakhoury)


2021     |    SECURITY DIALOGUE

Strategic Ignorance and the Legitimation of Remote Warfare: The Hawija Bombardments (with Lauren Gould)


2021     |    POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

Uncertainty, Exhaustion, and Abandonment beyond South/North Divides: Governing Forced Migration Through Strategic Ambiguity


2020     |    SMALL BUSINESS ECONOMICS

Refugee Entrepreneurship: Context and Directions for Future Research (with Sameeksha Desai and Wim Naudé)


2019     |    POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

Lebanon's Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis - Institutional Ambiguity as a Governance Strategy (with Jessy Nassar)

 

2017     |    CIVIL WARS

Mediated Stateness as a Continuum: Exploring the Changing Governance Relations between the PLO and the Lebanese State

 

2017     |    JOURNAL OF INTERVENTION AND STATEBUILDING

Political Parties and Minority Governance in Hybrid Political Orders – Reflections from Lebanon’s Palestinian Settlements and Kosovo’s Serbian Enclaves (with Chris van der Borgh) 

 

2016     |    ANTIPODE

The Agnotology of Eviction in South Lebanon’s Palestinian Gatherings. How Institutional Ambiguity and Deliberate Ignorance Shape Sensitive Spaces

 

2016     |    JOURNAL OF REFUGEE STUDIES

Organized Chaos: Informal Institution Building Among Palestinian Refugees in the Maashouk Gathering in South Lebanon (with Nasser Yassin and Rima Rassi)

 

2016     |    DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE

Languages of Stateness in South Lebanon’s Palestinian Gatherings: The PLO’s Popular Committees as Twilight Institutions

 

2016     |    JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Public-Private Entanglement’: Entrepreneurship in Lebanon’s Hybrid Political Order (with Wim Naudé)

 

2016     |    ANTIPODE

Review Essay – Institutionalized Ignorance and Manufactured Oblivion: Reading Noga Kadman’s Erased from Space and Consciousness from an agnotological perspective

 

2015     |    CONFLICT, SECURITY & DEVELOPMENT

Environmental Vulnerability as a Legacy of Violent Conflict: A Case Study of the 2012 Waste Crisis in the Palestinian Gathering of Shabriha, South Lebanon (with Irna van der Molen)

 

2015     |    BRITISH JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES

The 'Children of the State?’ How Palestinians from the Seven Villages Negotiate Sect, Party and State in Lebanon

 

2015     |    MEDITERRANEAN POLITICS

Lebanese-Palestinian Governance Interaction in the Palestinian Gathering of Shabriha, South Lebanon – A Tentative Extension of the ‘Mediated State’ from Africa to the Mediterranean

 

2014     |    AFRICA SPECTRUM

The Eye of the Beholder: Service Provision and State Legitimacy in Burundi (with Réginas Ndayiragije)

 

2014     |    CONTEMPORARY READINGS IN LAW AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

Governance and Government in the Arab Spring Hybridity: Reflections from Lebanon

 

2014     |    EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH

Between Control and Cooperation. Multi-Stakeholder Service Provision and the Legitimacy of State Institutions in Ethiopia’s Amhara National Regional State (with Fenta Mandefro Abate)

 

2013     |    JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Entrepreneurs in the Dark: The Impact of Fragile and Hybrid Governance on Lebanese Entrepreneurship - A Case Study of the Electricity Sector

 

2013     |    MIDDLE EAST POLICY

Review Essay: Lebanon – The Challenge of Moving Governance Analysis Beyond the State (with Georg Frerks)