Susana Galán - DIMMONS - Action Research Group

Postdoctoral researcher and coordinator of the research line in Digital Gender

At Dimmons, she coordinates the COST Action Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab (PWILL), of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology, and the project “Gender equality qualities of the platform economy. A framework of analysis,” funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. In the framework of the Barcelona UOC Chair in Digital Economy, she has participated in projects of knowledge transfer with the City Council of Barcelona and has organized the VIII Congress of Feminist Economy (Barcelona, March 16-18, 2023).

She has a PhD in Women’s and Gender Studies from Rutgers University. Her research adopts an intersectional, interdisciplinary, transnational and social justice approach that draws upon feminist and queer theory, feminist media studies and feminist geography.

Her work has been published in Signs: Journal of Women in Gender and Society, Gender, Place & Culture, Journal of International Women’s Studies, the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research, the Observatori del Conflicte Social and the books Young People Shaping Democratic Politics (Palgrave), Freedom Without Permission: Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions (Duke University Press) and Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings (Terreform).

She has served as co-editor for “Third Space” at the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies and has co-edited special issues for Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society and Al-Raida.

She has a Master in European Studies from the Europa-Universität Viadrina and a BA in Journalism from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Publications

Galán, S. (2023). Sexual Governmentality and the Woman at/as Risk in Revolutionary Egypt. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 48(4), 849–871. https://doi.org/10.1086/724239

Galán, S., & Abdelmonem, A. (2023). From the Streets to the Campus: The Institutionalization of Youth Anti-Sexual Harassment Activism in Post-Coup Egypt. In Young People Shaping Democratic Politics: Interrogating Inclusion, Mobilising Education (pp. 83–108). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-29378-8_5

aamiry-khasawnih, alma, & Galán, S. (2022). Graffiti narratives: securitization, beautification, and gender in 25 January Revolution Cairo. Gender, Place & Culture. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2022.2154322

Abdelmonem, A., & Galán Julve, S. (2021). Translating across Genres: A Conversation with Sherine Hamdy and Tarek Moustafa Abdel-Salam. Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, 17(1), 147–156. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-8790361

Galán, S., & Abdelmonem, A. (2019). From the New Editorial Team of Third Space. Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, 15(1), 113–115. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7273818

Abdelmonem, A., & Galán, S. (2017). Action-Oriented Responses to Sexual Harassment in Egypt: The Cases of HarassMap and WenDo. Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, 13(1), 154–167. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-3728767

Abdelmomen, A., Bavelaar, R. E., Wynne-Hughes, E., & Galán, S. (2016). The “Taharrush” Connection: Xenophobia, Islamophobia, and Sexual Violence in Germany and Beyond. Jadaliyya - جدلية. https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/33036

Galán, S. (2016). From the Square to the Streets: Sexual Harassment and Assault in Cairo after the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. In Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings (pp. 208–229). Terreform. https://www.urpub.org/books/beyondthesquare

Galán, S. (2016). Cautious Enactments: Interstitial Spaces of Gender Politics in Saudi Arabia. In Freedom without Permission: Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions (pp. 166–195). Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822373728-007

Galán, S. (2016). Beyond the Logic of State Protection: Feminist Self-Defense in Cairo after the January 25 Revolution. Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research, 2(1), 71–89. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.36583/kohl/2-1-9

Galán, S. (2015). Downtowns of New Cairo. Cairobserver. https://cairobserver.com/post/110592442229/downtowns-of-new-cairo

Galán, S. (2014). “Cossos rebels” contra l’escalada de l’assetjament i l’assalt sexual als carrers d’Egipte després de la revolució de 2011. Anuario del Conflicto Social, 3. https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/ACS/article/view/10355

Galán, S. (2012). “Today I have seen angels in shape of humans”: An emotional history of the Egyptian revolution through the narratives of female personal bloggers. Journal of International Women’s Studies, 13(5), 17–30. http://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol13/iss5/4

Bolter, F., Galán, S., & Kim, H. J. (2005). Xenophobia and Discrimination in Frankfurt/Oder as Experienced by Foreign Students of Europa Universität Viadrina. In Transborder relations: going local in Frankfurt (Oder)/Słubice (1. Aufl). Pro Business.