Behrouz Boochani
Biographic Data
| ID | 4045894 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Behrouz Boochani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Behrouz |
| FAMILY NAME | Boochani |
| SIGNATURE | BOOCHANI B |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cooking Back
This conversation examines food in the Australian offshore detention system, and traces the multiple registers through which food operated within the refugee camp on Manus Island: as a biopolitical instrument of dependency and control, as a structuring force of daily time, and as a medium through which administrative power rendered itself invisible behind the language of care and procedure. Moving beyond an account of deprivation, the conversatio…
Playing the waiting game
Human rights and the white saviour pattern in Australia’s immigration detention industry
For seven long years, the refugee men imprisoned at the Manus Island detention centre (prison) had their rights denied under Australia's harsh border security policy. They did not appear into public view as the worthy subjects of human rights. However, when the Sri Lankan Nadesalingam family were finally released in mid-2022 and returned to their former home in Biloela, a small town in the Australian state of Queensland, it was celebrated as an e…
Narrative, Resistance and Manus Prison Theory
In early 2020 Behrouz Boochani and Omid Tofighian conducted a speaking tour of the United States, Canada, UK, and Europe (including Ireland). They presented at numerous universities, including the University of Cambridge. In their Cambridge talk they focused on the transformative potential of storytelling and the importance of creating new intellectual frameworks for resistance. Key themes and issues in their discussion included features of Manus…
Interview
The following text is an edited transcript of a conversation, conducted in English, between André Dao and Behrouz Boochani, two of the artists who made how are you today: André from Melbourne, Australia, Behrouz during his incarceration on Manus island, Papua New Guinea. The conversation took place on 3 December in plenary at the 2019 meeting of the Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia, on Yugambeh land in the Gold Coast. Boo…
No Friend but the Mountains and Manus prison theory
This article is an edited version of a conversation that took place on 4 August 2019 at the State Library of Queensland located on the traditional lands of the Turrbal and Yuggera peoples. This article is part of a series of published conversations between Behrouz Boochani and Omid Tofighian, author and translator (one instalment also includes interlocutors from a 2020 UK tour), about the book No Friend but the Mountains and Manus Prison theory. …
Poem
Freedom is a gift/An intolerable gift/Akin to the undisclosed/Brimming with emotions anew/But it is an amalgam of jubilation and absurdity/ ... an overpowering absurdity/Now a disrupted self it seems
Notes on exile
Behrouz Boochani is a Kurdish-Iranian journalist, human rights defender, poet and film producer. He is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Ne
Manus prison poetics/our voice
Even if there were only one person reading my writings beyond this island, I would continue writing for that one reader.Dear Anne,This here is a pledge, a personal commitment. I made this pact with
Manus prison poetics/our voice
Even if there were only one person reading my writings beyond this island, I would continue writing for that one reader.Dear Anne,This here is a pledge, a personal commitment. I made this pact with
Notes on exile
Behrouz Boochani is a Kurdish-Iranian journalist, human rights defender, poet and film producer. He is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Ne
Manus prison poetics/our voice
Even if there were only one person reading my writings beyond this island, I would continue writing for that one reader.Dear Anne,This here is a pledge, a personal commitment. I made this pact with
Poem
Freedom is a gift/An intolerable gift/Akin to the undisclosed/Brimming with emotions anew/But it is an amalgam of jubilation and absurdity/ ... an overpowering absurdity/Now a disrupted self it seems
Notes on exile
Behrouz Boochani is a Kurdish-Iranian journalist, human rights defender, poet and film producer. He is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Ne
Narrative, Resistance and Manus Prison Theory
In early 2020 Behrouz Boochani and Omid Tofighian conducted a speaking tour of the United States, Canada, UK, and Europe (including Ireland). They presented at numerous universities, including the University of Cambridge. In their Cambridge talk they focused on the transformative potential of storytelling and the importance of creating new intellectual frameworks for resistance. Key themes and issues in their discussion included features of Manus…
Interview
The following text is an edited transcript of a conversation, conducted in English, between André Dao and Behrouz Boochani, two of the artists who made how are you today: André from Melbourne, Australia, Behrouz during his incarceration on Manus island, Papua New Guinea. The conversation took place on 3 December in plenary at the 2019 meeting of the Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia, on Yugambeh land in the Gold Coast. Boo…
No Friend but the Mountains and Manus prison theory
This article is an edited version of a conversation that took place on 4 August 2019 at the State Library of Queensland located on the traditional lands of the Turrbal and Yuggera peoples. This article is part of a series of published conversations between Behrouz Boochani and Omid Tofighian, author and translator (one instalment also includes interlocutors from a 2020 UK tour), about the book No Friend but the Mountains and Manus Prison theory. …
Human rights and the white saviour pattern in Australia’s immigration detention industry
For seven long years, the refugee men imprisoned at the Manus Island detention centre (prison) had their rights denied under Australia's harsh border security policy. They did not appear into public view as the worthy subjects of human rights. However, when the Sri Lankan Nadesalingam family were finally released in mid-2022 and returned to their former home in Biloela, a small town in the Australian state of Queensland, it was celebrated as an e…
Playing the waiting game
Cooking Back
This conversation examines food in the Australian offshore detention system, and traces the multiple registers through which food operated within the refugee camp on Manus Island: as a biopolitical instrument of dependency and control, as a structuring force of daily time, and as a medium through which administrative power rendered itself invisible behind the language of care and procedure. Moving beyond an account of deprivation, the conversatio…
Art (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Manus (3 works) · Media studies (3 works)