Dr L. (Ladan) Rahbari
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Senior Researcher at IMI
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group: Political Sociology: Power, Place and Difference
Visiting address
- Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
Postal address
- Postbus 15508
1001 NA Amsterdam
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Bio
Ladan Rahbari (Ph.D. Mult.) is a political sociologist and an assistant professor at the Department of Sociology, at the University of Amsterdam, and a senior researcher at the International Migration Institute (IMI). She was formerly based in Ghent University, Belgium as the recipient of an FWO (Research Foundation Flanders) post-doctoral fellowship (2019-2022). She is a member of Amsterdam Young Academy (2021-2026).
Rahbari obtained a Ph.D. in Gender and Diversity (Studies) from UGent and VUB (2019) and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Mazandaran (2015 "Doctor in de Politieke en Sociale Wetenschappen"), a Master’s degree in Anthropology (Tehran University), and a Bachelor’s degree in Italian Literature (Tehran University).
Rahbari's research interests include gender politics, migration, religion, body, and digital media with a general focus on Iran and Western Europe, and in the frameworks of postcolonial, feminist, and critical theories.
She is currently affiliated with Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality, Centre for Research on Culture and Gender (CRCG), and Centre of Expertise on Gender, Diversity, and Intersectionality (RHEA).
Between September 2019 and September 2020, Rahbari was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies (DiGeSt).
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Projects
Projects as co-supervisor
- Digitized Love and Intimacy on Hinge: FLINT* Individuals’ Dating Practices at the Cultural Nexus of Online and Offline Worlds (2022-2023)
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Fashionable and Transgressive: Queer Style Effects on Masculinities in Contemporary Indian Fashion (2020 - 2020)
- Queering Narratives of Ageing: Older Queer Women's Unruly Sexuality-Assemblages (2020 - 2023)
Projects as postdoc
- Motherhood and Lived Religion: Empirical Study on Perceptions and Experiences of Shiite Mothering in Belgium (2020 - 2020)
Projects as researcher
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Fundings
KNAW Early Career Partnership 2022 from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Global Digital Cultures seed grant 2022 (UvA) as one of the three main applicants for the project Digitized Love and Intimacy on Hinge: FLINT* Individuals’ Dating Practices at the Cultural Nexus of Online and Offline Worlds.
Fully funded postdoctoral fellowship project 2019-2022 awarded by FWO-Flanders Research Foundation (2019-2022), titled ‘Motherhood and Lived Religion: Empirical Study on Perceptions and Experiences of Islamic Shiite Mothering in Belgium’
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Publications
2022
- Rahbari, L. (2022). Beyond ‘Defecting’ and ‘Swapping’ Nationality: Emigrant Women Athletes and the Iranian Gendered Bio-Politics. In D. Reiche, & P. M. Brannagan (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Sport in the Middle East (pp. 354-362). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003032915-38
- Rahbari, L. (2022). Marriage, Parentage and Child Registration in Iran: Legal Status of Children of Unmarried Parents. Social Sciences, 11(3), [120]. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11030120
- Rahbari, L. (2022). Queering Iran, digitally: Implicit activism and LGBTQI+ dating on Telegram. Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, 25(2), 141-157.
2021
Ogbe, E., Jbour, A., Rahbari, L., Unnithan, M., & Degomme, O. (2021). The potential role of network-oriented interventions for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence among asylum seekers in Belgium. BMC Public Health, 21, [25]. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-10049-0- Rahbari, L. (2021). Gendered and Ethnic Captivity and Slavery in Safavid Persia: A Literature Review. Social Sciences, 10(1), [22]. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10010022 [details]
- Rahbari, L. (2021). In Her Shoes: Transnational Digital Solidarity With Muslim Women, or the Hijab? Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 112(2), 107-120. https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12376
- Rahbari, L. (2021). Schijnhuwelijk/Solidariteitshuwelijk. In Intieme Revoluties (pp. 71-84). Boom. https://www.boomfilosofie.nl/product/100-9743_Intieme-revoluties
- Rahbari, L. (2021). Solidariteit en zelfzorg in neoliberale tijden. In Intieme Revolutie (pp. 195-208). Boom. https://www.boomfilosofie.nl/product/100-9743_Intieme-revoluties
- Rahbari, L. (2021). Violence Against Women in Contemporary Iran: Between State, Society and Domestic Sphere. In A. Pistor-Hatam (Ed.), Menschenrechte in der Islamischen Republik Iran = Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran ERGON-Verlag.
- Rahbari, L. (2021). When gender turns right: racializing Islam and femonationalism in online political discourses in Belgium. Contemporary Politics, 27(1), 41-57 . https://doi.org/10.1080/13569775.2020.1813950
- Rahbari, L., Dierickx, S., Coene, G., & Longman, C. (2021). Transnational Solidarity with Which Muslim Women? the Case of the My Stealthy Freedom and World Hijab Day Campaigns. Politics and Gender, 112-135. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X19000552
2020
- Rahbari, L. (2020). Duffs and Puffs: Queer Fashion in Iranian Cyberspace. Middle East Critique, 29(1), 69-86. https://doi.org/10.1080/19436149.2020.1704503
- Rahbari, L. (2020). Milk Kinship and the Maternal Body in Shi'a Islam. Open Theology, 6(1), 43-53. https://doi.org/10.1515/opth-2020-0006
- Rahbari, L. (2020). Politics of Non-Motherhood in Shi’a Islam: Imagery and Narratives around Lady Fatemeh-Masoumeh of Qom. Turkish Journal of Shiite Studies, 2(1), 17-31. https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8668136
- Rahbari, L. (2020). Serial Acid Attacks and Women’s Online and Offline Resistance and Activism in Iran. Social Politics. https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxaa026
- Rahbari, L. (2020). Temporary marriages, mahramiyat, and the rights of the child in Shi'i adoption. Hawwa, 13(4), 103-123. https://doi.org/10.1163/15692086-12341388
- Rahbari, L. (2020). Women’s Ijtihad and Lady Amin’s islamic ethics on womanhood and motherhood. Religions, 11(2), [88]. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel11020088
- Rahbari, L., & de Blaere, A. (2020). Older Women’s Beauty and Bodily Practices in Two Flemish Retirement Homes. Women's Studies, 49(6), 559-575 . https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2020.1786692
2019
- Dierickx, S., Balen, J., Longman, C., Rahbari, L., Clarke, E., Jarju, B., & Coene, G. (2019). We are always desperate and will try anything to conceive': The convoluted and dynamic process of health seeking among women with infertility in the West Coast Region of The Gambia. PLoS ONE, 14(1), [e0211634]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211634
- Rahbari, L. (2019). Beauty or the beast? Academics' perceptions of women's physical appearance and academic achievements in Iran. Journal of International Women's Studies, 20(2), 309-323. https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85082017606&origin=inward&txGid=b40e8f67b513d9f6ea0f41bb226b900a#references
- Rahbari, L. (2019). Marriage in Iran: Women Caught Between Shi’i and State Law. Electronic Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (EJIMEL), 7, 37-48. https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-174603
- Rahbari, L. (2019). Pushing gender to its limits: Iranian women bodybuilders on instagram. Journal of Gender Studies, 28(5), 591-602. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2019.1597582
- Rahbari, L. (2019). Vaginal hygiene practices and the formation of sexuality. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 21(3), 360-371. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2018.1468925
- Rahbari, L., Longman, C., & Coene, G. (2019). The female body as the bearer of national identity in Iran: a critical discourse analysis of the representation of women's bodies in official online outlets. Gender, Place and Culture, 26(10), 1417-1437. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2018.1555147
2018
- Dierickx, S., Rahbari, L., Longman, C., Jaiteh, F., & Coene, G. (2018). 'I am always crying on the inside': A qualitative study on the implications of infertility on women's lives in urban Gambia. Reproductive Health, 15(1), [151]. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-018-0596-2
- Rahbari, L. (2018). 'mother of her father': Fatima-zahra's maternal legacy in shi'a islam. Journal of Shi'a Islamic Studies, 11(1), 23-41. https://doi.org/10.1353/isl.2018.0004
- Rahbari, L. (2018). Iranian Migrant Women's Shared Experiences in Belgium: Where Gender, Colour and Religion Intersect. In B. M. Pirani (Ed.), The Borders of Integration: Empowered Bodies and Social Cohesion (pp. 203-219). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- Rahbari, L. (2018). Their Beastly Manner Discourses of Non-Binary Gender and Sexuality in Shi'ite Safavid Persia. Open Cultural Studies, 2(1), 758-770. https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2018-0068
- Rahbari, L., & Coene, G. (2018). Review of ['The Moral Case for Abortion' by Ann Furedi]. DiGeSt (Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies), 5(1).
- Rahbari, L., & Longman, C. (2018). 'Between me and my God': A life story narrative of conciliating cultural discourses and personalization of Islam. In Women and religion: Contemporary and future challenges in the Global Era (pp. 175-190). Policy Press.
- Rahbari, L., Dierickx, S., Longman, C., & Coene, G. (2018). 'Kill Me but Make Me Beautiful': Harm and Agency in Female Beauty Practices in Contemporary Iran. Iran and the Caucasus, 22(1), 50-60. https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384X-20180105
2017
- Rahbari, L. (2017). Women's agency and corporeality in equestrian sports: The case of female leisure horse-riders in tehran. In M. Adelman, & K. Thompson (Eds.), Equestrian Cultures in Global and Local Contexts (pp. 17-33). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55886-8_2
- Rahbari, L., & Mahmudabadi, Z. (2017). What does it mean to be a woman? An exploratory study of femininities among mazandarani, Azeri and Kurdish female university students in Iran. Social Sciences, 6(3), 1-12. [98]. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci6030098
2016
- Dierickx, S., & Rahbari, L. (2016). Review of [Interrogationg Harmful Cultural Practices, Chia Longman and Tamsin Bradley (Eds.), Farnham and Berlington: Ashgate]. Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, 20(1), 87-91.
- Rahbari, L. (2016). Modern architecture, spatial precarity and the female body in the domestic spaces in Iran. Journal for Cultural Analysis and Social Change, 1(2), [2]. https://doi.org/10.20897/ejsa.201602
- Rahbari, L. (2016). Premarital Dating Relationships in Iran. In Encyclopedia of Family Studies (pp. 1620-1624). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119085621.wbefs234
- Rahbari, L. (2016). Sexuality in Iran. In Encyclopedia of Family Studies (pp. 1769-1772). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119085621.wbefs235
- Rahbari, L. (2016). Transnationality of child poverty: The case of Iranian and Afghan street children in Tehran. Asian Journal of Humanities and Social Studies, 4(5), 347-352.
- Rahbari, L. (2016). Women in higher education and academia in Iran. Sociology and Anthropology, 4(11), 1003-1010. https://doi.org/10.13189/sa.2016.041107
2015
- Rahbari, L. (2015). Peripheral position in social theory: Limitations of social research and dissertation writing in Iran. Civitas-Revista de Ciências Sociais, 15(1), 155-165. https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7289.2015.1.18615
- Rahbari, L., & Perlatto, F. (2015). Challenges of a Global Sociology: Centers and Peripheries in Geopolitics of Sociological Theory. Asian Journal of Humanities and Social Studies (ISSN: 2321--2799), 3(01).
- Rahbari, L., & Sharepour, M. (2015). Gender and realisation of women's right to the city in Tehran. Asian Journal of Social Science, 43(3), 227-248. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685314-04303002
- Sharepour, M., Rafatjah, M., & Rahbari, L. (2015). Citizens Position in Arnestein's Ladder: Gender Analysis of Participatory Dimentsion of Right ti the city. Ḥebrah ẇ-rwaḥah : Social Welfare Quarterly, 15(57), 177-203. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318729178_Citizens_Position_in_Arnestein's_Ladder_Gender_Analysis_of_Participatory_Dimension_of_Right_to_the_City
2014
- Rahbari, L. (2014). 'Are Educated Women Ugly?' Stigmatizing Women in Higher Education. In Proceedings of the Global Summit on Education GSE: 4-5 March 2014, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Rahbari, L. (2014). Perceived Safety, Trust, and Dialog Formation between Sexually Victimized Women and Police. Violence and Gender, 1(2), 60-64. https://doi.org/10.1089/vio.2014.0008
- Rahbari, L. (2014). Sexual violence and physical health problems of married women in urban Iran: an exploratory research. In ISA E-Symposium of Sociology (Vol. 1, pp. 1-12)
- Rahbari, L. (2014). Violence in Pre-Marital Relationships in Iran. In Violence in the Contemporary World (pp. 1 - 14). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848883123_002
- Rahbari, L., & Sharepour, M. (2014). Gender and right to the city: testing Lefebvre's theory in Tehran. Iranian Journal of Sociology, 15(1), 116-141. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318729335_Gender_and_Right_to_the_City_Testing_Lefebvre's_Theory_in_Tehran
- Riahi, ME., & Rahbari, L. (2014). Stress process approach in the sociology of mental health: sociological study of stress. Iranian Journal of Social Studies, 8(1), 49-85. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318729084_Stress_Process_Approach_in_the_Sociology_of_Mental_Health_Sociological_Study_of_Stress
2012
- Rahbari, L. (2012). Anthropology as a liberating science: integrating theory and practice in participatory action research. Iranian Journal of Anthropology Research, 2(4), 141-161.
2011
- Rahbari, L. (2011). A passage from profane to sacred: representation of the rite of passage in the Myth of Za'al. Iranian Journal of Anthropology Research, 9(15), 13-28.
2013
- Rahbari, L. (2013). Emotional exchange, discourse of martyrdom and self-sacrifice (a qualitative study of self-sacrifice among Iran-Iran war widows). In Proceedings of the first international symposium on self-sacrifice and martyrdom: A scholarly approach (ISSMSA 2013): 1st- 2nd of October – Tehran, Setaregan Foundation and University of Tehran (pp. 1-2)
2021
- Rahbari, L. (2021). Vulnerabilities and responsibilities of migrant teens: Intersections of gender, religion and politics. In EARS (pp. 1-23)
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Ogbe, E., Jbour, A., Rahbari, L., Unnithan, M., & Degomme, O. (2021). The potential role of network-oriented interventions for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence among asylum seekers in Belgium. BMC Public Health, 21, [25].