ApeCS Team

Livnat Konopny-Decleve is a British Academy International Fellow at The School of Social and Political Science at The University of Edinburgh. She is a political anthropologist working on the Jewish radical left, and on alternative political imagination in Israel/Palestine and abroad. Livnat received her PhD from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University (2022), and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2023)

Dr. Pascale Schild is a political anthropologist. Her research focuses on disaster government, the politics of reconstruction, state/citizenship, civil society peacebuilding, political solidarity and ethnographic vulnerability. She explores these themes primarily in relation to the disputed territories of Kashmir and the local and transnational Kashmiri freedom struggle.

Pascale holds a PhD from LMU Munich. She was a visiting researcher at the SOAS South Asia Institute, University of London (2021-2024) and is currently based at swisspeace, University of Basel. For her postdoctoral research in Kashmir and with the Kashmiri diaspora in the UK, she received fellowships and grants from the Walter Benjamin Kolleg of the University of Bern and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).

Her work has appeared in Citizenship Studies, Peacebuilding and Contemporary South Asia, among other journals and edited volumes. She is the guest co-editor of the special issue “In/Civility in Peace and Conflict” published in Peacebuilding in 2023.