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 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 the Centre for Research on Culture and Gender (CRCG) and Centre of Expertise on Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality (RHEA) and the alliance ECSO.be.
Between September 2019 and September 2020, Rahbari was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies (DiGeSt).
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 2209 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3840-708X |
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| Researcher ID | C-8497-2018 |
| ResearchGate | 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 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
(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 |