Tara Mehrabi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3435178 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tara Mehrabi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tara |
| FAMILY NAME | Mehrabi |
| SIGNATURE | MEHRABI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Karlstad University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1061-3292 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Unsettling Intimacies
This article engages with the installation of the Iranian artist Minoosh Zomorodinia, Knots and Ripples (2017), through what we call "unsettling intimacies". This concept is inspired by philosopher Mariana Ortega's notion of "aesthetic unsettlement". In our reworked application of the concept, we argue that in this mixed-media installation, an unsettling intimacy emerges that connects different tropes of Otherness (migrant and nature) in the cont…
Woman, Life, Freedom
In this essay, I draw on the lyrics of a viral song by Shervin Hajipour titled “Baraye” (meaning: for the sake of) that was released on 28 September 2022 and immediately became the anthem of the protests in Iran. I quote excerpts of the lyrics in three sections of this essay, connecting them to the slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom” chanted in the streets and the symbolic act of cutting one’s hair that has come to represent the protests. In the first …
The gender and sexual politics of the Covid-19 pandemic
Almanac
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Making Middles Matter
It is fair to say that the relationship between intersectionality theories and new materialisms has been characterized by tensions. Intersectional approaches have emphasized the multi-faceted positioning of subjects in relation to the classificatory power of socially constructed identity categories. Meanwhile, feminist new materialisms have foregrounded the agency of matter and argued for the relational becoming of human bodies, subjectivities, a…
Queer Death Studies
This introduction to the Queer Death Studies special issue explores an emerging transdisciplinary field of research. This field critically, (self-)reflexively and affirmatively investigates and challenges conventional normativities, assumptions, expectations, and regimes of truths that are brought to life and made evident by current planetary scale necropolitics and its framing of death, dying and mourning in the contemporary world. It is set aga…
Queer Ecologies of Death in the Lab
In this article I explore human and transgenic fruit fly relations in the laboratory and in relation to everyday practices of waste management. I rely on ethnographic material collected from one year of participatory observation in an Alzheimer's laboratory in Sweden, in which scientists work withDrosophila Melanogaster, commonly known as fruit flies. Grounding myself within new materialism, posthuman theories and queer theories, I explore queer …
Queer Death Studies
This special issue aims to rethink death, dying and mourning through theoretical and methodological modes of queering. These modes are mobilised under three overarching themes: (1) queer (necro)politics, which focuses not only on regimes and technologies that subjugate “life to the power of death” (Mbembe 2003, 39), while rendering some lives more grievable than others, but also, on queer modes of resistance; (2) posthuman ethico-politics of deat…
Being intimate with flies
Situated within feminist technoscience studies and affect theory, this article explores the methodological specificities of working with Drosophila Melanogaster, commonly known as fruit flies. Based on a year of participatory observation in a fly lab, the article challenges the modernist imaginaries of laboratory work as disembodied, detached and objective. It suggests that laboratory work is instead an interactive, embodied and affective process…
Making Death Matter
Writing this thesis would have not been possible if it was not for the love, support and generous inputs of a number of incredible people that I had the privilege of calling colleagues, friends and family and I would like to thank them here for making the difficult task of writing a PhD thesis also a fun experience for me.First and formost I wish to thank my supervisors Cecilia Åsberg and Ericka Johnson.Thank you Cissi for your generous and thoug…
Queer Death Studies
This introduction to the Queer Death Studies special issue explores an emerging transdisciplinary field of research. This field critically, (self-)reflexively and affirmatively investigates and challenges conventional normativities, assumptions, expectations, and regimes of truths that are brought to life and made evident by current planetary scale necropolitics and its framing of death, dying and mourning in the contemporary world. It is set aga…
Making Death Matter
Writing this thesis would have not been possible if it was not for the love, support and generous inputs of a number of incredible people that I had the privilege of calling colleagues, friends and family and I would like to thank them here for making the difficult task of writing a PhD thesis also a fun experience for me.First and formost I wish to thank my supervisors Cecilia Åsberg and Ericka Johnson.Thank you Cissi for your generous and thoug…
Making Middles Matter
It is fair to say that the relationship between intersectionality theories and new materialisms has been characterized by tensions. Intersectional approaches have emphasized the multi-faceted positioning of subjects in relation to the classificatory power of socially constructed identity categories. Meanwhile, feminist new materialisms have foregrounded the agency of matter and argued for the relational becoming of human bodies, subjectivities, a…
Queer Ecologies of Death in the Lab
In this article I explore human and transgenic fruit fly relations in the laboratory and in relation to everyday practices of waste management. I rely on ethnographic material collected from one year of participatory observation in an Alzheimer's laboratory in Sweden, in which scientists work withDrosophila Melanogaster, commonly known as fruit flies. Grounding myself within new materialism, posthuman theories and queer theories, I explore queer …
Being intimate with flies
Situated within feminist technoscience studies and affect theory, this article explores the methodological specificities of working with Drosophila Melanogaster, commonly known as fruit flies. Based on a year of participatory observation in a fly lab, the article challenges the modernist imaginaries of laboratory work as disembodied, detached and objective. It suggests that laboratory work is instead an interactive, embodied and affective process…
Unsettling Intimacies
This article engages with the installation of the Iranian artist Minoosh Zomorodinia, Knots and Ripples (2017), through what we call "unsettling intimacies". This concept is inspired by philosopher Mariana Ortega's notion of "aesthetic unsettlement". In our reworked application of the concept, we argue that in this mixed-media installation, an unsettling intimacy emerges that connects different tropes of Otherness (migrant and nature) in the cont…
The gender and sexual politics of the Covid-19 pandemic
Queer Death Studies
This special issue aims to rethink death, dying and mourning through theoretical and methodological modes of queering. These modes are mobilised under three overarching themes: (1) queer (necro)politics, which focuses not only on regimes and technologies that subjugate “life to the power of death” (Mbembe 2003, 39), while rendering some lives more grievable than others, but also, on queer modes of resistance; (2) posthuman ethico-politics of deat…
Making Death Matter
Writing this thesis would have not been possible if it was not for the love, support and generous inputs of a number of incredible people that I had the privilege of calling colleagues, friends and family and I would like to thank them here for making the difficult task of writing a PhD thesis also a fun experience for me.First and formost I wish to thank my supervisors Cecilia Åsberg and Ericka Johnson.Thank you Cissi for your generous and thoug…
Being intimate with flies
Situated within feminist technoscience studies and affect theory, this article explores the methodological specificities of working with Drosophila Melanogaster, commonly known as fruit flies. Based on a year of participatory observation in a fly lab, the article challenges the modernist imaginaries of laboratory work as disembodied, detached and objective. It suggests that laboratory work is instead an interactive, embodied and affective process…
Queer Death Studies
This special issue aims to rethink death, dying and mourning through theoretical and methodological modes of queering. These modes are mobilised under three overarching themes: (1) queer (necro)politics, which focuses not only on regimes and technologies that subjugate “life to the power of death” (Mbembe 2003, 39), while rendering some lives more grievable than others, but also, on queer modes of resistance; (2) posthuman ethico-politics of deat…
Almanac
.
Making Middles Matter
It is fair to say that the relationship between intersectionality theories and new materialisms has been characterized by tensions. Intersectional approaches have emphasized the multi-faceted positioning of subjects in relation to the classificatory power of socially constructed identity categories. Meanwhile, feminist new materialisms have foregrounded the agency of matter and argued for the relational becoming of human bodies, subjectivities, a…
Queer Death Studies
This introduction to the Queer Death Studies special issue explores an emerging transdisciplinary field of research. This field critically, (self-)reflexively and affirmatively investigates and challenges conventional normativities, assumptions, expectations, and regimes of truths that are brought to life and made evident by current planetary scale necropolitics and its framing of death, dying and mourning in the contemporary world. It is set aga…
Queer Ecologies of Death in the Lab
In this article I explore human and transgenic fruit fly relations in the laboratory and in relation to everyday practices of waste management. I rely on ethnographic material collected from one year of participatory observation in an Alzheimer's laboratory in Sweden, in which scientists work withDrosophila Melanogaster, commonly known as fruit flies. Grounding myself within new materialism, posthuman theories and queer theories, I explore queer …
The gender and sexual politics of the Covid-19 pandemic
Woman, Life, Freedom
In this essay, I draw on the lyrics of a viral song by Shervin Hajipour titled “Baraye” (meaning: for the sake of) that was released on 28 September 2022 and immediately became the anthem of the protests in Iran. I quote excerpts of the lyrics in three sections of this essay, connecting them to the slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom” chanted in the streets and the symbolic act of cutting one’s hair that has come to represent the protests. In the first …
Unsettling Intimacies
This article engages with the installation of the Iranian artist Minoosh Zomorodinia, Knots and Ripples (2017), through what we call "unsettling intimacies". This concept is inspired by philosopher Mariana Ortega's notion of "aesthetic unsettlement". In our reworked application of the concept, we argue that in this mixed-media installation, an unsettling intimacy emerges that connects different tropes of Otherness (migrant and nature) in the cont…
Sociology (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works)