Mahdis Azarmand
Biographic Data
| ID | 140935 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mahdis Azarmand |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mahdis |
| FAMILY NAME | Azarmand |
| SIGNATURE | AZARMAND M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Canterbury |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3096-771X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
(Not Just) Another Manifesto
We write in a world ablaze—ecological collapse, rising fascism, and genocide unfolding in real time. For the colonized, these are not new catastrophes but enduring conditions. Against this backdrop, we explore postdigital feminist citizen science as a set of subversive, generative practices that compost the ruins of empire into possibilities otherwise. Rooted in the postdigital’s refusal to separate the digital from the material, postdigital femi…
Whose Peace Counts in German Classrooms? On the Mobilization of School Peace (Schulfrieden) and the Policing of Palestine Solidarity
School peace, or Schulfrieden, is often portrayed in German education as a neutral condition enabling learning. Yet this study interrogates how peace itself becomes a tool of governance, selectively policing who can safely occupy the classroom. Examining the Berlin Senate’s October 2023 directive, which banned symbols showing solidarity with Palestine, we show that school peace is less about conflict resolution than about shaping affective hierar…
Anti-racism commitment in early childhood education
Racism is pervasive in education in Aotearoa New Zealand, including in early childhood education. The preparedness of early childhood teachers to respond to the Ministry of Education's current anti-racism policy direction is a pressing concern. This is particularly the case, given the early childhood curriculum Te Whāriki: He whāriki mātauranga mō ngā mokopuna o Aotearoa offers little guidance to support early childhood teachers to develop anti-r…
Towards a tika political science
This article is a rejoinder to two previous articles about the political science discipline in Aotearoa New Zealand published in The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education: Annie Te One and Maria Bargh's "Towards a Fairer and More Tika Political Science and Politics: Are Political Science Programs Equipping Students Adequately for Aotearoa Realities?" (vol. 52, no. 2) and Jack Vowles's "Fairness, Tika and Political Science in Aotearoa New Zea…
Disturbing a Discipline
This article examines the implications of race critical and decolonial theories for peace and conflict studies. It critiques dominant epistemological frames in the field that overlook coloniality and racial capitalist violence while emphasizing human rights and universalism. The detachment of human rights from racial history is explored to reveal the coloniality of peace. The concept of 'disturbing the disciplinary peace' is introduced, drawing o…
Geocorpographies of Commemoration, Repression and Resistance
The contributions in this special issue expose the connections between somatechnics and geocorpographies: the ongoing permutations of geopolitical and geographical influences on conceptions of personhood and bodies, whether on the level of the individual, the community, the nation-state and/or the transnational.This issue aims to link the geocorpographies of violence and resistance to the somatechnics processes through which bodies become calibra…
Commemorating No-bodies – Christopher Columbus and the Violence of Social-forgetting
The Columbus statue in Barcelona is visited by millions of tourists each year and is one of the most well-known memorials dedicated to the “discovery” of the Americas. By looking at the productive nature of memorialisation, this paper questions this narrative of discovery. It looks at the history of the conquest of America as a moment of violence and massacre. Following the idea of coloniality of power and coloniality of being, this paper seeks t…
Disturbing a Discipline
This article examines the implications of race critical and decolonial theories for peace and conflict studies. It critiques dominant epistemological frames in the field that overlook coloniality and racial capitalist violence while emphasizing human rights and universalism. The detachment of human rights from racial history is explored to reveal the coloniality of peace. The concept of 'disturbing the disciplinary peace' is introduced, drawing o…
Commemorating No-bodies – Christopher Columbus and the Violence of Social-forgetting
The Columbus statue in Barcelona is visited by millions of tourists each year and is one of the most well-known memorials dedicated to the “discovery” of the Americas. By looking at the productive nature of memorialisation, this paper questions this narrative of discovery. It looks at the history of the conquest of America as a moment of violence and massacre. Following the idea of coloniality of power and coloniality of being, this paper seeks t…
Geocorpographies of Commemoration, Repression and Resistance
The contributions in this special issue expose the connections between somatechnics and geocorpographies: the ongoing permutations of geopolitical and geographical influences on conceptions of personhood and bodies, whether on the level of the individual, the community, the nation-state and/or the transnational.This issue aims to link the geocorpographies of violence and resistance to the somatechnics processes through which bodies become calibra…
Commemorating No-bodies – Christopher Columbus and the Violence of Social-forgetting
The Columbus statue in Barcelona is visited by millions of tourists each year and is one of the most well-known memorials dedicated to the “discovery” of the Americas. By looking at the productive nature of memorialisation, this paper questions this narrative of discovery. It looks at the history of the conquest of America as a moment of violence and massacre. Following the idea of coloniality of power and coloniality of being, this paper seeks t…
Disturbing a Discipline
This article examines the implications of race critical and decolonial theories for peace and conflict studies. It critiques dominant epistemological frames in the field that overlook coloniality and racial capitalist violence while emphasizing human rights and universalism. The detachment of human rights from racial history is explored to reveal the coloniality of peace. The concept of 'disturbing the disciplinary peace' is introduced, drawing o…
Anti-racism commitment in early childhood education
Racism is pervasive in education in Aotearoa New Zealand, including in early childhood education. The preparedness of early childhood teachers to respond to the Ministry of Education's current anti-racism policy direction is a pressing concern. This is particularly the case, given the early childhood curriculum Te Whāriki: He whāriki mātauranga mō ngā mokopuna o Aotearoa offers little guidance to support early childhood teachers to develop anti-r…
Towards a tika political science
This article is a rejoinder to two previous articles about the political science discipline in Aotearoa New Zealand published in The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education: Annie Te One and Maria Bargh's "Towards a Fairer and More Tika Political Science and Politics: Are Political Science Programs Equipping Students Adequately for Aotearoa Realities?" (vol. 52, no. 2) and Jack Vowles's "Fairness, Tika and Political Science in Aotearoa New Zea…
(Not Just) Another Manifesto
We write in a world ablaze—ecological collapse, rising fascism, and genocide unfolding in real time. For the colonized, these are not new catastrophes but enduring conditions. Against this backdrop, we explore postdigital feminist citizen science as a set of subversive, generative practices that compost the ruins of empire into possibilities otherwise. Rooted in the postdigital’s refusal to separate the digital from the material, postdigital femi…
Whose Peace Counts in German Classrooms? On the Mobilization of School Peace (Schulfrieden) and the Policing of Palestine Solidarity
School peace, or Schulfrieden, is often portrayed in German education as a neutral condition enabling learning. Yet this study interrogates how peace itself becomes a tool of governance, selectively policing who can safely occupy the classroom. Examining the Berlin Senate’s October 2023 directive, which banned symbols showing solidarity with Palestine, we show that school peace is less about conflict resolution than about shaping affective hierar…
Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Aotearoa (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (2 works) · History (2 works) · Indigenous (2 works)