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Faduma Abukar Mursal works as a senior lecturer and researcher at the Department of Social Anthropology, with a focus on political and economic anthropology. In her current habilitation project, she examines ordinary emotions in global governance, investigating how governance professionals emotionally experience, formulate, and enact global norms, with a focus on those working in and on conflict areas, including East Africa.

After studying political sciences and African studies, Faduma Abukar Mursal completed her PhD in Anthropology at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale. In her PhD project, she explored the relationship between security, trade and governance by examining the everyday experiences and discursive articulations of low-income urban communities in post-2012 Mogadishu. Based on this project, she is writing a book that reflects on forms of confinement as novel modes of urban governance.