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About Jane M. Jacobs
- Jane Margaret Jacobs (born 2 May 1958) is an Australian academic, currently serving as Professor of Social Sciences at Yale-NUS College and formerly as Professor of Cultural Geography, in the School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh.
- She was previously at the University of Melbourne.
- Jacobs' work has focused on Postcolonialism; indigenous rights and identity; race and racism; cultural politics of urban space; high-rise housing and modernity; and the politics of cultural heritage.
- Jacobs has published several books, many book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed international scholarly journals.
- In 2016, she was elected a fellow of the British Academy.
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