Dr Julie MacArthur (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada). She is the former Director of the Cambridge African Film Festival (UK).

Research Interests
Africa

Research
My research interests revolve around the role of cartography and geographic imaginations, borders and local practices of space, in constructions of community, power and dissent in modern Africa. Currently I am completing my first book on mapping, ethnogenesis and dissenting politics in eastern Africa. I am also working on a series of articles related to questions of citizenship, sovereignty, conflict and memory in colonial and postcolonial Africa. I have a further interest in African cinema, both professionally through curating and programming African cinema at film festivals and academically through the study of cinema as a central technology by which Africans compose, edit and consolidate their pasts and as a means to express and engage with pressing social and political concerns in contemporary Africa.

Source:
www.history.ubc.ca/people/julie-macarthur