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Mina Godarzani-Bakhtiari

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Technische Universität Berlin
Institute of Sociology

Fraunhoferstraße 33-36 (FH 9-1)
10587 Berlin
Germany

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m.godarzani-bakhtiari@tu-berlin.de

CV

  • since 2022

    Research Assistant
    ORA/DFG project ‚Visions of Policing. How Visual Technologies Shape Police Oversight and Training’, TU Berlin

  • 2020 - 2023

    MA Sociology and Technology Studies, TU Berlin

  • 2015 - 2019

    BA Sociology / Politics and Administration, University of Potsdam

Research Focus

    • Urban and spatial sociology

    • Visual sociology

    • Qualitative methods

    • Post-/Decolonial theory

    • (Post)migrant perspectives

Publications

    • Godarzani-Bakhtiari, Mina (forthcoming). Gegenöffentliche Problematisierung polizeilicher Nekropolitik. Forensic Architecture’s Investigation des Polizeieinsatzes in Hanau. sub/urban. Zeitschrift für kritische Stadtforschung.

    • Godarzani-Bakhtiari, Mina and Tuma, Rene (forthcoming). Objektivierung von visuellem Wissen – Die Transformation von Big Visual Data in den vernakularen Analysen von Forensic Architecture. Schweizer Zeitschrift für Soziologie.

  • Talks

    • IIEMCA Conference Seoul, South Korea, 2024: Multi-layered Temporality in the Documentation of Forensic Architecture.

    • The 10th Biennial Surveillance Studies Network / Surveillance & Society Conference (SSN 2024) Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2024: Forensic Architecture: Counter-Public Negotiations of Policings Necropolitics.

    • Conference: Membership Categorization Analysis. Soziologische Perspektiven auf ein Forschungsprogramm. Universität Duisburg/Essen, Germany, 2024: Forensic Architecture: ‚Gegenöffentliche‘ Verhandlung von Kategorien.

    • Workshop: Qualitative Videoanalyse – Audio-visuelle Daten und ihre Kontexte. TU Berlin, Germany, 2023: Forensic Architecture: Video & Gegenforensik.

    • 23rd Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology – EUROCRIM. Florence, Italy, 2023: (with Tuma, R.) The Introduction and Implications of Video Recording in Suspect Interrogations.

    • Workshop: The New Visibilities of Policing in-action. Cardiff University, UK, 2023: Forensic Architecture: Counterpublic investigations of policing using visual and spatial technology.

    • Conference: Narratives of Achievement in African and Afroeuropean Context. Stellenbosch, South Africa, 2018: (with Hericks, K.) Efficient production: the paradigm of productivity in the International Labour Organization.

  • Prizes

    • Prize for the best Master’s thesis of the year
      Institut of Sociology
      Title thesis: “(In)visibility re-negotiated – counter-public objectification and the significance of space“ (title translated)