Overview
Nazanin Zarepour’s interdisciplinary research is interested in locating novel political solutions to the crisis of modernity from the global subaltern. Their research centres the intellectual and cultural histories of West Asia that displace and critique the hegemonic assumptions of modernity, emphasizing the importance of non-material, non-rational factors as central to the ‘good life.’ Nazanin is especially interested in liberation theologies emerging from West Asia – particularly ideologues of the Iranian Revolution and beyond with an emphasis on employing the works of Ali Shari’ati as a method for cross-cultural political theorizing. Their research is interested in both the theoretical (how these ideas offer answers to normative questions), and the practical (how these ideas come to life in anti-colonial resistance) – the latter of which they explore through visual and print cultures. Nazanin has a background in comparative political theory, with an MA in Political Theory and a collaborative specialization in Critical Development Studies from the University of Toronto. Alongside their academic work, Nazanin is a text-based artist, writer, and Editor-in-Chief of critical literary magazine The Vermin.
Research Focus
- Modernity
- Anti-colonial and anti-imperialist thought
- West Asia Comparison, with a focus on Iran and the Levant
- Print and visual cultures
- Comparative political theory