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Dr Mahdis Azarmandi

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Department: School of Educational Studies and Leadership

Email: mahdis.azarmandi@canterbury.ac.nz

Direct Dial: +64 3 3690129

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Languages: English, Farsi, German, Persian, Spanish

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Fields of Research

  • critical race and whiteness studies
  • racism and anti-racism
  • social justice
  • coloniality/ decoloniality
  • decolonization

Researcher Summary

My research is located at the intersections of Peace and Conflict Studies and  Critical Race and Whiteness studies. I am particularly interested in questions of social justice and anti-racism. I am interested in epistemologies of ignorance and how they are reproduced within social justice movement. My work draws from intersectionality and critical race theory as well as decolonial theory.
In addition to my work on antiracism, I write on the politics of memorialization with a specific focus on colonial monuments and the violence they reproduce.

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Cultural Studies: Cultural Studies
  • Education: Cultural Studies; Diversity; Globalisation; Socio-Cultural Theories of Education
  • Political Science, International Relations and Public Policy: Conflict Resolution; Political Science
  • Sociology, Social Policy, Social Work, Criminology and Gender Studies: Feminist Studies; Social Science

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

  • Azarmandi M. (2018) Reflexiones sobre el espacio, la solidaridad, las coaliciones y los horizontes decoloniales. Revista desde El Margen 2(1). (Journal Articles)
  • Azarmandi M. (2018) The Racial Silence within Peace Studies. Peace Review 30(1): 69-77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2017.1418659. (Journal Articles)
  • Azarmandi M. (2017) Colonial Redux: When Re-naming Silences - Antonio Lopez y Lopez and Nelson Mandela. Borderlands E-Journal: new spaces in the humanities 16(1). (Journal Articles)
  • Azarmandi M. (2017) Koloniale Denkmäler und die Grenzen des Spanischen Antirassismus. In Zwischenraum Kollektiv (Ed.), Decolonize the City! – Zur Kolonialität der Stadt. Perspektiven, Gespräche, Aushandlungen: 88-88. Münster: Unrast. (Chapters)
  • Ha NK. and Zablotsky V. (2017) Editors Introduction. In Zwischenraum Kollektiv (Ed.), Decolonize the City! – Zur Kolonialität der Stadt. Perspektiven, Gespräche, Aushandlungen: 6-6. Münster: Unrast. (Chapters)
  • Azarmandi M. (2016) Colonial Continuities. Peace Review 28(2): 158-164. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2016.1166738. (Journal Articles)
  • Azarmandi M. (2016) Commemorating No-bodies – Christopher Columbus and the Violence of Social-forgetting. Somatechnics 6(1): 56-71. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/soma.2016.0174. (Journal Articles)
  • Azarmandi M., Laforteza E. and Ceuterick M. (2016) Geocorpographies of Commemoration, Repression and Resistance. Somatechnics 6(1): 1-8. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/soma.2016.0170. (Journal Articles)
  • Azarmandi M. (2013) Transnational German-Turkish Cinema from a Cosmopolitan Perspective – Towards the Representation of Cosmopolitan Hybrid Identities. In de Gregorio-Godeo E; Martin-Albo AM-A (Ed.), Mapping Identities and Identification Processes: Approaches from Cultural Studies Bern: Peter Lang AG. (Chapters)
  • Azarmandi M. (2009) Cine Transnacional como Practica Cosmopolita – Una herramienta para cambiar representaciones de identidades hibridas y promover diversidad. In Comins Mingol I; Paris Albert S; Herrero Rico S (Ed.), Filosofia en Accion Castellon: Universitat Jaume I. (Chapters)

Key Methodologies

  • critical discourse analysis
  • decolonizing methodologies
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