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The University of British Columbia: Vancouver, BC, CA

2020-08-01 to present | Assistant Professor (Department of Geography)
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Mohammed Rafi Arefin

New York University: New York, NY, US

2018-09-01 to 2020-08-01 | NYU Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow (Gallatin School of Individualized Study)
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Education and qualifications (3)

University of Wisconsin Madison: Madison, WI, US

2013-09 to present | PhD (Geography)
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Mohammed Rafi Arefin

University of Arizona: Tucson, AZ, US

2011-09 to 2013-12 | MA (Geography)
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Mohammed Rafi Arefin

University of California Berkeley: Berkeley, CA, US

2007-09 to 2011-05 | BA (Development Studies)
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Funding (1)

The Politics of Sanitary Infrastructure in Cairo

2012 to 2017 | Award
National Science Foundation (VA, VA, US)
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Works (12)

Making Waves: A justice-centred framework for wastewater-based public health surveillance

Water Research
2025-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Mohammed Rafi Arefin; Carolyn Prouse; Josie Wittmer; Nuhu Amin; Monique Assunção; Amber Benezra; Angela Chaudhuri; Megan Diamond; Shirish Harshe; Kimberly Hill-Tout et al.
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Urban political ecologies of sewage surveillance: Creating vital and valuable public health data from wastewater

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
2024-12-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Mohammed Rafi Arefin; Carolyn Prouse
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Feminist urban political ecology

2024-10-11 | Book chapter
Contributors: Carolyn Prouse; Mohammed Rafi Arefin
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Counter-collaborations towards alternative bio-securitizations

Dialogues in Human Geography
2024-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Mohammed Rafi Arefin; Carolyn Prouse
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Political ecologies of a university and land at Cairo's urban periphery: The American University in Cairo's suburban desert campus

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
2024-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Danya Al-Saleh; Mohammed Rafi Arefin
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Chasing Ghosts: Race, Racism, and the Future of Microbiome Research

mSystems
2021-10-26 | Journal article
Contributors: Travis J. De Wolfe; Mohammed Rafi Arefin; Amber Benezra; María Rebolleda Gómez; Kathryn C. Milligan-Myhre
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Infrastructural occupations: waste and electricity in Palestine

cultural geographies
2021-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Mohammed Rafi Arefin; Benjamin Kaplan Weinger
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Infrastructural Discontent in the Sanitary City: Waste, Revolt, and Repression in Cairo

Antipode
2019-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Mohammed Rafi Arefin
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The State, Sewers, and Security: How Does the Egyptian State Reframe Environmental Disasters as Terrorist Threats?

Annals of the American Association of Geographers
2019-03-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Mohammed Rafi Arefin
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Historical geographies of, and for, the present

Progress in Human Geography
2018-10-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0309-1325
Contributors: Mohammed Rafi Arefin; Elizabeth Hennessy; Nathan McClintock; Sharlene Mollett; Levi Van Sant; Levi Van Sant; Elizabeth Hennessy; Mona Domosh
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Generating anxiety, short-circuiting desire: Battery waste and the capitalist phantasy

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
2018-05 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0263-7758
Contributors: Sarah A Moore; Heather Rosenfeld; Mohammed Rafi Arefin
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Undisciplining environmental justice research with visual storytelling

Geoforum
2017-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0016-7185
Contributors: Sarah A. Moore; Robert E. Roth; Heather Rosenfeld; Eric Nost; Kristen Vincent; Mohammed Rafi Arefin; Tanya M.A. Buckingham
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