Dr mult. Ladan Rahbari is 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).
Rahbari obtained a Ph.D. in Gender and Diversity (Studies) from UGent and VUB (2019) and a Ph.D. in Sociology from University of Mazandaran (2015 "Doctor in de Politieke...
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| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3840-708X |
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| Researcher ID | C-8497-2018 |
| Research Gate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ladan-Rahbari |
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University of Amsterdam
University, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Assistant Professor
Research
Activism and academia: an interdisciplinary dialogue on academic freedom and social engagement
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari, Dion Kramer, Marie Deserno, ... |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Dual nationality, anti‐citizenship, and xeno‐racism: Online tropes on migrant (in)gratitude, and (in)adequate Britishness of Nazanin Zaghari‐Ratcliffe
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari, Julian D. Karch |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | The British Journal of Sociology |
(Gender) Politics in the Field: The Precarities of Diasporic (Women) Scholars of Iranian Politics during and after the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ Uprising
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Politics & Gender |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Down the (digital) rabbit hole: Mapping and decolonizing Safavid women's imagery in digital museums
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Material Culture |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Legitimating Misogyny and Femicide: Legal Himpathy and (State) Violence against Women in Iran
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Societies |
From allochronism to generationality: Ageism in queer communities in Belgium
| Authors | Katrien De Graeve, Ladan Rahbari, Nika Looman |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Sexualities |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Roundtable: Affordances, Diversity, and Inclusion on Dating Apps - A Dialogue between Sociologists and Media Studies Researchers about ‘Hinge’
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari, Misha Kavka, Erinne Paisley, ... |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | DiGeSt - Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
COVID-19 Pandemic and the Crisis of Care: Wellness Discourses, Neoliberal Self-Care, and (Dis)Infodemic
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Social Sciences |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Saba Mahmood en de nieuwe sociologische canon: secularisme, politieke ethiek en macht
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari, Sarah Bracke |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Mens & Maatschappij |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe
| Year | 2023 |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Stories [that] Matter: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe
| Authors | OBP Olga, Ladan Burlyuk, Rahbari |
| Year | 2023 |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Islamic Shi'i Ethics and the Biopolitics of the Maternal Body
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari |
| Year | 2023 |
| Book Title | The Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body |
Introduction
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari, Olga Burlyuk |
| Year | 2023 |
| Book Title | Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Beyond ‘Defecting’ and ‘Swapping’ Nationality
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari |
| Year | 2022 |
| Book Title | Routledge Handbook of Sport in the Middle East |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Harm and Consent in the Socio-Legal Perspectives on Child Marriage in Iran
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari |
| Year | 2022 |
| Book Title | Religion and Gender-Based Violence |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Faking Orgasms
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Religion and Gender |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Queering Iran, digitally: Implicit activism and LGBTQI+ dating on Telegram
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The potential role of network-oriented interventions for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence among asylum seekers in Belgium
| Authors | Emilomo Ogbe, Alaa Jbour, Ladan Rahbari, ... |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | BMC Public Health |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Transnational Solidarity with Which Muslim Women? The Case of the My Stealthy Freedom and World Hijab Day Campaigns
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari, Susan Dierickx, Gily Coene, ... |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Politics & Gender |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
When gender turns right: racializing Islam and femonationalism in online political discourses in Belgium
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Contemporary Politics |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Older Women’s Beauty and Bodily Practices in Two Flemish Retirement Homes
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari, Annemerel de Blaere |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Women's Studies |
Duffs and Puffs: Queer Fashion in Iranian Cyberspace
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Middle East Critique |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Milk Kinship and the Maternal Body in Shi’a Islam
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Open Theology |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Temporary Marriages, Mahramiyat, and the Rights of the Child in Shiʿi Adoption
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Hawwa |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
In Her Shoes: Transnational Digital Solidarity With Muslim Women, or the Hijab?
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie |
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
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari, Chia Longman, Gily Coene |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Gender, Place & Culture |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Pushing gender to its limits: Iranian women bodybuilders on instagram
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Gender Studies |
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
| Authors | Susan Dierickx, Julie Balen, Chia Longman, ... |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | PLOS ONE |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Vaginal hygiene practices and the formation of sexuality
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Culture, Health & Sexuality |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
‘Between me and my God’: a life story narrative of conciliating cultural discourses and personalization of Islam
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari, Chia Longman |
| Year | 2018 |
| Book Title | Women and Religion |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
‘I am always crying on the inside’: a qualitative study on the implications of infertility on women’s lives in urban Gambia
| Authors | Susan Dierickx, Ladan Rahbari, Chia Longman, ... |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Reproductive Health |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
‘Kill Me but Make Me Beautiful’: Harm and Agency in Female Beauty Practices in Contemporary Iran
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari, Susan Dierickx, Chia Longman, ... |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Iran and the Caucasus |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
“Their Beastly Manner”: Discourses of Non-Binary Gender and Sexuality in Shi’ite Safavid Persia
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Open Cultural Studies |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
What Are You Reading?
| Authors | Laura Nys, Charlotte D'Eer, Mahdiyeh T. Khiabani, ... |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | DiGeSt - Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies |
Women’s Agency and Corporeality in Equestrian Sports: The Case of Female Leisure Horse-Riders in Tehran
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari |
| Year | 2017 |
| Book Title | Equestrian Cultures in Global and Local Contexts |
Gender and Realisation of Women’s Right to the City in Tehran
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari, Mahmoud Sharepour |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Asian Journal of Social Science |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Perceived Safety, Trust, and Dialog Formation Between Sexually Victimized Women and Police
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Violence and Gender |
Marriage, Parentage and Child Registration in Iran: Legal Status of Children of Unmarried Parents
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Social Sciences |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Gendered and Ethnic Captivity and Slavery in Safavid Persia: A Literature Review
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari |
| Year | 2021 |
| Citations (WoS) | 1 |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Serial Acid Attacks and Women’s Online and Offline Resistance and Activism in Iran
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Women’s Ijtihad and Lady Amin’s Islamic Ethics on Womanhood and Motherhood
| Authors | Rahbari |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Religions |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
What Does It Mean to Be a Woman? An Exploratory Study of Femininities among Mazandarani, Azeri and Kurdish Female University Students in Iran
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari, Zeinab Mahmudabadi |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Social Sciences |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Modern Architecture, Spatial Precarity and the Female Body in the Domestic Spaces in Iran
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | European Journal of Sociology and Anthropology |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Premarital Dating Relationships in Iran
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Encyclopedia of Family Studies |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Sexuality in Iran
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Encyclopedia of Family Studies |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Posição periférica em teoria social: limitações para fazer pesquisa social e escrever teses no Irã
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Civitas: revista de Ciências Sociais |
‘Between me and my God’:
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari, Chia Longman |
| Book Title | Women and religion |
Women in Higher Education and Academia in Iran
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari |
| Journal Name | Sociology and Anthropology |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
‘Zionism as the Legacy of Cyrus’: (Online) Proxy Nationalism of Diasporic Iranians
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari, Ladan Rahbari |
| Year | 2025 |
| Journal Name | Nations and Nationalism |
'Zionism as the Legacy of Cyrus': (Online) Proxy Nationalism of Diasporic Iranians
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari |
| Year | 2025 |
(Post-)pandemic Somatechnics, Neoliberalism, and the Return to (Academic) Normalcy: Digital Conversations
| Authors | Ladan Rahbari, Evelien Geerts |
| Year | 2024 |