Rana Dadpour
Biographic Data
| ID | 3063567 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rana Dadpour |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rana |
| FAMILY NAME | Dadpour |
| SIGNATURE | DADPOUR R |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Cook University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6674-5695 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How do members of the public feel about novel ecosystem interventions? A longitudinal study of emotional responses to restoration and adaptation in the Great Barrier Reef
Climate-responsive ecosystem interventions are increasingly proposed to support coral reef futures, yet the emotional dimensions of public responses remain poorly understood. Drawing on three large-scale surveys of Australians conducted in 2018, 2022, and 2024 ( n = 8460), this study examines longitudinal shifts in emotional responses to six novel restoration and adaptation strategies in the Great Barrier Reef. Across all waves, positive emotions…
Theocratic authoritarian urbanism and performative right to the city
Dancing in-between
This paper conceptualises interstitial feminist defiance as a mode of activism that emerges between formal feminist mobilisations and everyday dissent. Drawing on a qualitative case study of the Ekbatan girls’ viral dance in Tehran – a public, unsanctioned act of joy and resistance – we trace how embodied gestures circulate across urban and digital terrains, amplifying feminist struggle under authoritarian rule. These fleeting, often decentralis…
Is Scholar-Activism an Oxymoron? Reflecting on the Challenges and Opportunities for Scholarly Activism or Activist Scholarship in the Politics and Gender Field
Scholar-activism, which we define as scholarship that seeks to contribute knowledge to activism is often underappreciated. From a methodological perspective, the positionality of scholar-activists is too often misunderstood. Yet scholar-activism is a relatively common approach to generating new knowledge about hard-to-access, repressive contexts while also assisting political movements and their strategies. Feminist-informed scholarship necessita…
Is Scholar-Activism an Oxymoron? Reflecting on the Challenges and Opportunities for Scholarly Activism or Activist Scholarship in the Politics and Gender Field – Corrigendum
Mapping migrants' narratives
This study introduces a novel approach to urban liveability research by combining interviews with participatory mapping techniques. More specifically, the research integrates concepts from geographic information systems (GISs) with episodic narrative interviews to develop a qualitative GIS (qual-GIS) methodology to map and interpret the spatial experiences of recent migrants to Cairns. This qual-GIS approach involves participants annotating ameni…
Expected Versus Experienced Liveability for Amenity Migrants in Cairns, Australia
This study explores Australian amenity migrants' experiences in Cairns, comparing expectations of a tropical paradise with lived realities. Using episodic narrative interviews and Importance-Performance Analysis of liveability indicators, it uncovers discrepancies between idealised imaginaries and actual experiences. Key concerns include housing, safety, jobs, living costs, and challenges in building community connections. The findings highlight …
Endangering trust in health services
Since the beginning of the nationwide protests in Iran in September 2022, ambulances have been seriously misused for non-medical transports to suppress the recent protests in Iran such as detention
Systematic Oppression of Tertiary Education in Iran Under the Islamic Republic
Understanding the ‘region’ in Covid-19-induced regional migration
This paper unpacks the notion of ‘region’ in the current COVID-19 migration debate to understand how the city of Cairns, Queensland fits into a wider geography of internal urban-rural migration in Australia. It unpacks different constructions of ‘region’, showing how they often articulate ‘access’, ‘rural’ and ‘remote’ and a general sense of non-urban entities. We discuss the imagined geographies of different Australian regional classification sy…
Is Scholar-Activism an Oxymoron? Reflecting on the Challenges and Opportunities for Scholarly Activism or Activist Scholarship in the Politics and Gender Field
Scholar-activism, which we define as scholarship that seeks to contribute knowledge to activism is often underappreciated. From a methodological perspective, the positionality of scholar-activists is too often misunderstood. Yet scholar-activism is a relatively common approach to generating new knowledge about hard-to-access, repressive contexts while also assisting political movements and their strategies. Feminist-informed scholarship necessita…
Systematic Oppression of Tertiary Education in Iran Under the Islamic Republic
Understanding the ‘region’ in Covid-19-induced regional migration
This paper unpacks the notion of ‘region’ in the current COVID-19 migration debate to understand how the city of Cairns, Queensland fits into a wider geography of internal urban-rural migration in Australia. It unpacks different constructions of ‘region’, showing how they often articulate ‘access’, ‘rural’ and ‘remote’ and a general sense of non-urban entities. We discuss the imagined geographies of different Australian regional classification sy…
Dancing in-between
This paper conceptualises interstitial feminist defiance as a mode of activism that emerges between formal feminist mobilisations and everyday dissent. Drawing on a qualitative case study of the Ekbatan girls’ viral dance in Tehran – a public, unsanctioned act of joy and resistance – we trace how embodied gestures circulate across urban and digital terrains, amplifying feminist struggle under authoritarian rule. These fleeting, often decentralis…
Mapping migrants' narratives
This study introduces a novel approach to urban liveability research by combining interviews with participatory mapping techniques. More specifically, the research integrates concepts from geographic information systems (GISs) with episodic narrative interviews to develop a qualitative GIS (qual-GIS) methodology to map and interpret the spatial experiences of recent migrants to Cairns. This qual-GIS approach involves participants annotating ameni…
Understanding the ‘region’ in Covid-19-induced regional migration
This paper unpacks the notion of ‘region’ in the current COVID-19 migration debate to understand how the city of Cairns, Queensland fits into a wider geography of internal urban-rural migration in Australia. It unpacks different constructions of ‘region’, showing how they often articulate ‘access’, ‘rural’ and ‘remote’ and a general sense of non-urban entities. We discuss the imagined geographies of different Australian regional classification sy…
Endangering trust in health services
Since the beginning of the nationwide protests in Iran in September 2022, ambulances have been seriously misused for non-medical transports to suppress the recent protests in Iran such as detention
Systematic Oppression of Tertiary Education in Iran Under the Islamic Republic
Expected Versus Experienced Liveability for Amenity Migrants in Cairns, Australia
This study explores Australian amenity migrants' experiences in Cairns, comparing expectations of a tropical paradise with lived realities. Using episodic narrative interviews and Importance-Performance Analysis of liveability indicators, it uncovers discrepancies between idealised imaginaries and actual experiences. Key concerns include housing, safety, jobs, living costs, and challenges in building community connections. The findings highlight …
Theocratic authoritarian urbanism and performative right to the city
Dancing in-between
This paper conceptualises interstitial feminist defiance as a mode of activism that emerges between formal feminist mobilisations and everyday dissent. Drawing on a qualitative case study of the Ekbatan girls’ viral dance in Tehran – a public, unsanctioned act of joy and resistance – we trace how embodied gestures circulate across urban and digital terrains, amplifying feminist struggle under authoritarian rule. These fleeting, often decentralis…
Is Scholar-Activism an Oxymoron? Reflecting on the Challenges and Opportunities for Scholarly Activism or Activist Scholarship in the Politics and Gender Field
Scholar-activism, which we define as scholarship that seeks to contribute knowledge to activism is often underappreciated. From a methodological perspective, the positionality of scholar-activists is too often misunderstood. Yet scholar-activism is a relatively common approach to generating new knowledge about hard-to-access, repressive contexts while also assisting political movements and their strategies. Feminist-informed scholarship necessita…
Is Scholar-Activism an Oxymoron? Reflecting on the Challenges and Opportunities for Scholarly Activism or Activist Scholarship in the Politics and Gender Field – Corrigendum
Mapping migrants' narratives
This study introduces a novel approach to urban liveability research by combining interviews with participatory mapping techniques. More specifically, the research integrates concepts from geographic information systems (GISs) with episodic narrative interviews to develop a qualitative GIS (qual-GIS) methodology to map and interpret the spatial experiences of recent migrants to Cairns. This qual-GIS approach involves participants annotating ameni…
How do members of the public feel about novel ecosystem interventions? A longitudinal study of emotional responses to restoration and adaptation in the Great Barrier Reef
Climate-responsive ecosystem interventions are increasingly proposed to support coral reef futures, yet the emotional dimensions of public responses remain poorly understood. Drawing on three large-scale surveys of Australians conducted in 2018, 2022, and 2024 ( n = 8460), this study examines longitudinal shifts in emotional responses to six novel restoration and adaptation strategies in the Great Barrier Reef. Across all waves, positive emotions…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works)