Amber Murrey
Amber Murrey is a PhD student in Geography at the University of Oxford with interests in decoloniality, PanAfricanism, militarism and structural violence, resistance and filmmaking in francophone Africa. She recently co-authored a piece with Horace Campbell in Third World Quarterly on the problematic of US military funded social science research in Africa.
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Monday, November 3, 2014 22:30 - 1 Comment
Special Report">“Blaise Dégage! Sankara Vit!”: Burkina Faso’s Revolution Special Report
This week, an unprecedented wave of popular protests forced Blaise Compaoré to step aside as president of Burkina Faso, twenty seven years after the military coup that brought him to power. Amber Murrey reports.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, May 6, 2014 16:32 - 2 Comments
Idea">Geographies of Resistance: Neoliberal Violence and Crisis Idea
Following a recent student-organised conference at Oxford University, Amber Murrey reports on the event and situates its discussions within the global longue durée of capitalism's rise.
Books, New in Ceasefire - Monday, January 6, 2014 20:21 - 2 Comments
Ideas">Pan-African Classics: Walter Rodney’s Legacy Ideas
Amber Murrey pays tribute to the legacy of Walter Rodney, whose book 'How Europe Underdeveloped Africa' transformed the modern debate on slavery and colonisation.
