Publications

Publications

Books

• Disabling Relations: Injured Bodyminds & Active Witnessing, a monograph under contract.
• (In Progress) Madness in Political Prison: Toward Conceptualizing Mental Health under Torture in Iran

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• Kazemi, Sona (Forthcoming) “Silent Global and Oppressive Local: Fetishization of the Disabled War Veterans in Iran through the ideological construction of “Living Martyrs” at Somatechnics 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 [equal authorship] (invited, forthcoming). “On Universality of Human 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, 2024)
• Kazemi, Sona & Gold, Efrat [equal authorship] (invited, forthcoming). “Multiverse of the Living Dead in Fascist Encounters” In a Special Issue of Springer’s SN Social Sciences, titled “Narrative Universes of Disability: An Interdisciplinary Journey”, edited by Sati, Someshwar, Anand, Shilpaa, and Karah, Hemachandran. (Springer, 2023)
• Kazemi, Sona & Karah, Hemachandran [equal authorship] (invited, forthcoming). “Inclusive Carnal Literacy: Imagining Futurities via Multilingual Disability Studies.” In Disability and the Teaching of Writing0, edited by Wheeler, Stephanie, Ubbesen, Molly, and Morse, Tracy C. (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2023)
• Kazemi, Sona & Karah, Hemachandran [equal authorship] (invited, forthcoming). “Teaching Disability Justice in Action” In Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice edited by Raja, Masood Ashraf and Lu, Nick T. C. (Spring, 2023)
• Kazemi, Sona & Karah, Hemachandran [equal authorship] (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). “Mobilizing White Affects and Suspended Laughters on Lipless faces: Injured by Borders, Walls, and Wars”. In Suchland, Jennifer (Eds.), Naming (In)Justice: Rights and Resistance Across Queer Migrations and Trafficking (Pp. TBD)
• 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:
• 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

Published Conference Proceedings

• Kazemi, Sona (2015) “Untangling Disability and Race—A Dialectic: “Dangerous”, “Different”, and “At Risk” published @ 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 17, 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