Ashqar Ahmad

MRes Student, Department of Anthropology

Ahmad Ashqar is a Master of Research student in the Department of Anthropology at Durham University. Trained in Mechanical Engineering and holding an MSc in Sustainability, Energy and Development, his research lies at the intersection of energy systems, political ecology, and social anthropology, with a particular focus on energy transitions, energy justice, and the relationship between infrastructure, power, and inequality. As a Palestinian researcher, he brings a justice-centred perspective to questions of land, environment, and sovereignty, shaped by his upbringing in the Palestinian countryside and his involvement in environmental initiatives across Palestine. More broadly, he is interested in how relationships to land are shaped, contested, and disrupted under settler colonialism, and in how struggles over land and resources are bound up with questions of autonomy, survival, and collective resilience. His work increasingly explores these intersections comparatively, particularly in relation to Indigenous communities in North America and Australia, with attention to sovereignty, resilience, and more just ecological futures.