Maryam Adjam

Biography

Maryam Adjam is an ethnographer, currently based as a researcher at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her research interest includes the fields of memory studies, urban studies and critical heritage studies. Using imaginative ethnographical methodologies such as ethnographic poetics and visual anthropology she has been exploring the intersection between ethnography, photography and literature, focusing on practices of remembrance in relation to experiences of war and state sanctioned violence. Her current research project “The Heritage of the Missing” focuses on absence as concept in memory and processes of heritage making in the context of state sanctioned violence. She holds a PhD in ethnology from Center for Baltic and East European Studies at Södertörn University, Sweden.