Sona Kazemi, PhD

Publications

Books

• Disabling Relations: Wounded Bodyminds & Active Witnessing (forthcoming, 2024) under contract with Temple University Press (Dis/Color Series).
• (In Progress) Interdependence, Feminism & Care Infrastructures in Iranian Prisons

Edited Books

• Co-edited “Disabling States” with Rachel da Silveira Gorman and Louise Tam (forthcoming, 2025) under contract with Canadian Scholars Press
• (In Progress) Co-edited “Towards a Transnational Solidarity Theory and Praxis: Locating Disability and Feminist Consciousness in the Global” with Hemachandran Karah and Efrat Gold 

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• Kazemi, Sona & Karah, Hemachandran [equal authorship] (invited, forthcoming). “Mobile Immobility: Resisting Walls and Wars” in the Special Issue of the Journal of Transnational American Studies (JTAS) titled “Diagnosing Migrant Experience: Medical Humanities and Transnational American Studies.” Eds by Höll, Davina and Banerjee, Mita

• Kazemi, Sona (in press) “Silent Global and Oppressive Local: Fetishization of the Disabled War Veterans in Iran through the ideological construction of “Living Martyrs” at Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal

• Kazemi, Sona and Sarikaya, Berivan (2019) “Politicizing Disability-Production Mechanisms: Applying the Transnational Disability Model to a Case of Incarceration, Torture, and Hunger Strike/Death Fast of a Kurdish Political Prisoner in Turkey” in Zanj: The Journal of Critical Global South Studies Vol 2, No. 1, “Kurdish Culture, Identity, and Geopolitics: Toward Decolonization”

 

• Kazemi, Sona (2019) “Whose Disability (Studies)? Defetishizing Disablement of the Iranian Survivors of the Iran-Iraq War by (Re)Telling their Resilient Narratives of Survival” in Special Issue of the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies Vol 8 No 4 with the topic, “Survivals, Ruptures, Resiliences”

 

• Kazemi, Sona (2019) “Disabling Power of Capitalism, Nationalism, and Imperialism: Looking at War Injury through Dialectical and Historical Materialism, Disability Studies Lens, and Geopolitics” at Disability Studies Quarterly JournalVol 39, No 3 (2019)

 

• Kazemi, Sona (2017) “Toward A Conceptualization of Transnational Disability Theory and Praxis: Engaging the Dialectics of Geopolitics, Third World, and Imperialism” published at the Critical Disability Discourse Journal Vol 8

 

 

 

 

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

 

• Kazemi, Sona & Karah, Hemachandran, (invited, forthcoming) “Between Bodies or Within Bodies?” in The Routledge Companion on ‘Disability at Work’, edited by Oana Branzei & Anica Zeyen (Routledge, 2024)

• Kazemi, Sona, Karah, Hemachandran, & Farmand, Hamed (invited, forthcoming) “Re-Educating Mad Dissidents Under Modern Theocratic State” in The Surveillance and Regulation of Madness in Educational Settings: Critical Pedagogy and Mad Futurities edited by Davis, Adam, Spring, Lauren, and Castrodale, Mark as part of Dr. Bruce Cohen’s edited book series, “The Politics of Mental Health and Illness” (Palgrave McMillan)

• Kazemi, Sona, Efrat Gold, Hemachandran Karah, & Mary Jean Hande (invited, in press) “Transnational Disability Praxis: Archiving Survival, Resistance, and Resilience Amidst Ongoing Emergencies” in Cripping the Archives edited by Jenifer Barclay and Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy as part of the series, “Disability Histories” (University of Illinois Press)

• Kazemi, Sona (invited, in press). “Dislocated Selves, Incarcerated Rights” in Human Rights Past and Futures as part of a new series, “On Possibility: Social Change and the Arts + Humanities” edited by Shuman, Amy; Hesford, Wendy (Ohio State University Press)

• Kazemi, Sona & Karah, Hemachandran [equal authorship] (published in preview). “Making Sense of the Disability Autonomy and Collectivity Binary: A Review of Informal Disability Justice pedagogy (IDJP) across cultures” In Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice edited by Raja, Masood Ashraf and Lu, Nick T. C.

• Kazemi, Sona & Karah, Hemachandran (invited). “Madness as Response-Ability Against State Terror: A Case Study from Iranian Revolution” Under Disability and Intersectionality Section, Handbook of Critical Disability Studies, edited by Erevelles, Nirmala and Marrow, Marina in Rioux, Marcia H. & Addlakha, Renu © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022

 

• Kazemi, Sona (invited, forthcoming) “Iranian Women’s Experiences with State Violence: A Marxist-Feminist Analysis and A Revolutionary Decarceration Pedagogy”. In Rose Ann Torres, Ian Liujia Tian, & Coly Chau (eds.) Asian Canada is Burning: Theories, Methods, Pedagogies, And Praxes (Black Point: Fernwood Publishing)

• Kazemi, Sona & Karah, Hemachandran [equal authorship] (invited, forthcoming). “Cultural Imperialism and Life of the Mind: A Review of Cerebral Bias in Humanities Pedagogy and Beyond” In Da Silveira Gorman, Rachel & Le François, Brenda (Eds.), Palgrave Encyclopedia of Critical Perspectives in Mental Health. (Palgrave MacMillan)

 

 Book Reviews

• Kazemi, Sona (2019) “A Review of The Other Mrs. Smith” a novel written by Bonnie Burstow published by Inanna Publications and Education Inc. 2017. 978-1-77133-421-1 at the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies
• Kazemi, Sona (2015) “A Review of Marxism and Feminism” edited by Shahrzad Mojab published by Zed book (2015) published at the Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies: http://www.jceps.com/archives/2778
• Kazemi, Sona (2015) “A Review of Psychiatry and the Business of Madness” written by Bonnie Burstow published by Palgrave Macmillan published for Canadian Women’s Studies Journal @ http://cws.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cws/article/viewFile/37563/34108

Published Conference Proceedings

• Kazemi, Sona (2015) “Untangling Disability and Race—A Dialectic: “Dangerous”, “Different”, and “At Risk” published @http://journals.msvu.ca/ocs/public/CASAE-2015-conference-proceedings.pdf@ Proceedings of the 34^th CASAE Annual Conference 2015

Editorials

• Kazemi Sona & Karah, Hemachandran: Disability and Multilingualism: A Global Perspective,at Review of Disability: An International Journal, Volume 17, Issue 2 published on July 1, 2021
• Kazemi Sona & Karah, Hemachandran: Disability and Multilingualism: A Global Perspective,at Review of Disability: An International Journal, Volume 17, Issue 1 published on March 31, 2021
• Kazemi Sona & Karah, Hemachandran: Disability and Multilingualism: A Global Perspective,at Review of Disability: An International Journal, Volume 16, Issue2-4 published on Jan 10, 2021

Working Papers

• Kazemi, Sona “Madness, A pathology or A Rationale?”
• Kazemi, Sona “Teaching Revolutionary Peace Praxis through Disability Studies Standpoint”
• Kzemi, Sona “Kulbarsand the politics of border crossing in Iranian Kurdistan: political economy of disablement”
• Kazemi, Sona “Iranian Women’s Struggle Against Mandatory Hijab”