shahram khosravi

Against Mass Deportation from Iran to Afghanistan

Against Mass Deportation from Iran to Afghanistan

Shahram Khosravi examines the mass deportation of Afghan migrants from Iran and the state violence that sustains it. He argues that the construction of migrants as threats obscures deeper conditions of economic insecurity, corruption and repression. In place of the nation-state’s promise of resolution through borders, the text calls for shared responsibility, solidarity and coexistence.

Seeing Through the X-ray

Jelena Jovičić reflects on The Gaze of the X-ray: An Archive of Violence, bringing the affective experience of reading into conversation with the book’s theoretical contributions. Her response adds a personal perspective to its investigation of the technological violence of the X-ray.

About Autoethnography: Hunting for Hope

Shahram Khosravi is a professor of anthropology at Stockholm University. He mainly focuses on issues of migration, forced displacement and border studies. In this piece, Khosravi writes about autoethnography as a research method and a writing style. He explores the possibilities this method offers to confront the division between North/theory and South/field.