Azadeh Akbari is Assistant Professor in Public Administration & Digital Transformation at the Faculty of Behavioural, Management & Social Sciences at the University of Twente. She is currently an EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow (2024-7) for her project Authoritarian Smart Cities. She is also the co-director of the International Surveillance Studies Network. Her research focuses on the politics of surveillance, especially forms of authoritarian surveillance, data justice, and gender-specific surveillance. Azadeh is an associate editor for the journals Surveillance & Society and Information Technology for Development. She also has founded Surveillance in the Global South Research Network to expand the scope of surveillance studies to include non-Western discourses and practices and create a place for exchange, collaboration, and activism against the undemocratic use of surveillance technologies. 

Azadeh has studied sociology (BA) and journalism in Iran and gender research (MSc) at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. She obtained her PhD in human geography from the University of Heidelberg and then joined the University of Münster as a postdoctoral research associate in political geography. Azadeh has been a journalist for many years and has worked as a communication manager and community outreach specialist at the UNHCR, UNICEF, and the British Council.

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2023

Critical ICT4D: The Need for a Paradigm Change (2023)In After Latour: Globalisation, Inequity and Climate Change - IFIP WG 8.2 and WG 9.4 Joint Working Conference, IFIPJWC 2023, Proceedings (pp. 350-355) (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Vol. 696 AICT). Springer. Akbari, A. & Masiero, S.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50154-8_25Politics of Rightful Killing. Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan by Sima Shakhsari (2023)Anthropos, 118(2), 663-664. Akbari, A.The Russian invasion of Ukraine: implications for politics, territory and governance (2023)Territory, Politics, Governance, 11(8), 1519-1536. Dodds, K., Taylor, Z., Akbari, A., Broto, V. C., Detterbeck, K., Inverardi-Ferri, C., Lee, K. O., Mamadouh, V., Ramutsindela, M. & Woon, C. Y.https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2023.2256119Situating data: A critique of universalist approaches to data (2023)In A Research Agenda for Digital Geographies (pp. 127-132). Edward Elgar. Akbari, A.https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802200607.00020

2021

01110011 01101111 01110011 (2021)Surveillance and society, 19(4), 441-444. Akbari, A.https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v19i4.15123Academic Reading for Non-Native English Speakers (2021)Heidelberg Inspirations for Innovative Teaching, 2, 29-47. Akbari Kharazi, A.https://doi.org/10.11588/HINT.2021.1.84506A Resilient ICT4D Approach to ECO Countries’ Education Response during COVID-19 Pandemic (2021)In IFIP 9.4 2021: 1st Virtual Conference Conference Theme: Resilient ICT4D May 25th – 28th, 2021 (pp. 154-165). University of Oslo. Akbari Kharazi, A.FEMINISTISCHE+DIGITALE+GEOGRAPHIE+N:: Die Politik einer Kontamination (2021)Feministisches Geo-RundMail(85), 6-11. Akbari Kharazi, A.

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