Nicola Perugini

Nicola Perugini is an anthropologist and political scientist who works as an associate professor in international relations at the University of Edinburgh. Perugini has co-authored three books: Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire, The Human Right to Dominate and Morbid Symptoms. He co-edited Palestine and the Western Academe: Fighting the Exception, Defending Epistemic Justice with Walaa Alqaisiya. Nicola has published articles on different topics, including war and the ethics of violence; the politics of human rights, humanitarianism and international law; humanitarianism's visual cultures; war and embedded anthropology; refugees and asylum seekers; law, space and colonialism; settler-colonialism; epistemic justice; and the question of Palestine. He is currently working on a research project entitled "Decolonising the Civilian", which examines national liberation wars, international law and the status of civilians in armed conflicts.
Perugini is the co-author of the section "The University of Edinburgh and the Question of Palestine: Balfour's Imperial Legacy and its Afterlife" in the Edinburgh University Race Review.