Research & Essays
Book chapters, interdisciplinary research, essays, and critical writing examining migration, detention regimes, memory, political violence, and border narratives.
LATEST PUBLICATION
Detention and Deportation in Europe
Analyses, Contestations, and Radical Visions in the Aftermath of COVID-19
Bristol University Press — 2026
Featuring the opening poem Breaking News and original cover artwork by Elahe Zivardar.
An interdisciplinary volume examining detention regimes, forced migration, and abolitionist responses across Europe in the aftermath of COVID-19.
→ Upcoming online launch event — June 2026
Elahe Zivardar will participate in the online launch with a live reading of the opening poem Breaking News. Event details to be announced.
Book Chapters
Freedom, Only Freedom
The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani
BLOOMSBURY — 2023
Contribution:
“Journalism, Borders and Oppression: The Nauru Context”
Co-authored by Elahe Zivardar and Mehran Ghadiri.
More Posthuman Glossary
(Theory in the New Humanities)
BLOOMSBURY — 2022
Contribution:
Nauru Imprisoned Exiles Collective
Co-authored by Elahe Zivardar and Mehran Ghadiri.
The Big Anxiety
Taking Care of Mental Health in Times of Crisis
BLOOMSBURY — 2022
Contribution:
Resistance, Racism and Decolonization
Manus Prison Theory and Nauru Imprisoned Exiles Collective
Co-authored by Elahe Zivardar, Mira, Omid Tofighian and Behruz Boochani
Corpi Reclusi In Attesa Di Espulsione
(Italian edited collection)
Edizioni SEB27 — 2022
Contribution:
Breaking News
English poem by Elahe Zivardar
Journal Publications
Southerly 79.2:
Writing Through Fences – Archipelago of Letters
Southerly Journal – Nov 2021
Contribution:
Featuring the original cover artwork by Elahe Zivardar.
Cages: 19th July
On the Record: Judgement
Women Speak: Nameless, Captivity – Alliance – Freedom
Essays & Critical Writing
The Philosopher
NAURU PRISON THEORY AS
PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY
the philosopher | Spring 2024: Punishment
Contribution:
Nauru Prison Theory As Public Philosophy
Co-authored by Omid Tofighian and Elahe Zivardar