Dr. Ayesha Jehangir

About

Ayesha Jehangir is a Lecturer in Journalism and Communication at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Her project investigates reporting practices of newly-displaced Afghan  journalists in Germany, and explores new digital technologies that they use in the reconfiguration of symbolic borders. She draws on the politics of voice and self-determination to conceptualise a new form of social justice journalism that proposes a shift from refugees as the object of journalism to refugees as the subject.

Ayesha’s research focuses on the mediation of human suffering from war and conflict zones, studied through the frameworks of war and peace journalism, digital witnessing, voice, and self-determination.

Ayesha is the author of Afghan Refugees, Pakistani Media and the State: The Missing Peace (Routledge 2024). She is the inaugural Peace Fellow of the International Association of Media and Communication Research (2024–2026). She also serves as elected co-secretary of the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (2023-2024).