Donya Ahmadi
University of Groningen
Bio
Donya Ahmadi is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Groningen, whereby she teaches various specialized courses on race-critical and intersectional feminism at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her current research project concerns the (re)-gendering of contemporary Iranian historiography, through documenting and highlighting the crucial role played by
women activists in the political developments of 20th and 21th century Iran. Relatedly, her broader research addresses an intersectional feminist critique of Iranian nationalism, and its historical and contemporary manifestations through gendered processes and embodied practices of assimilation.
Latest Publications:
Ahmadi, D. 2024. From contestation to reclamation: the strive for spatial justice. In Rethink the City: New approaches to Global and Local Urban Challenges. TU Delft Open.
https://doi.org/10.59490/mg.101
Ahmadi, D. 2023. A history of the Iranian women’s rights movement. Niterói: Platforma9.
Ahmadi, D. 2023. Standing on top of society’s sexist load: Gate-keeping activism and feminist respectability politics in the case of the Iranian MeToo Movement. Women's Studies International Forum, 99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2023.102765
Shaker, R. and Ahmadi, D., 2022. Everyday embodied othering experiences of young Muslims in the Netherlands. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 48(19), pp.4567-4585. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2022.2096577