Edited Books

▪ Akbari, A. & Masiero, S. (eds.) (2025). Critical ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development ), Routledge.

▪ Murakami Wood, D., Akbari, A., Bruno, F. & R. Van Brakel (eds.) (upcoming-2026) International Handbook of Critical Surveillance Studies, Edward Elgar.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

▪ Akbari, A. (2024). The politics of data justice: exit, voice, or rehumanisation? Information, Communication & Society, 1–17.

▪ Akbari, A. (2022). Authoritarian Smart Cities: A Research Agenda. Surveillance & Society, 20:4, 441-449.

▪ Akbari, A. (2021). Authoritarian Surveillance: A Corona Test. Surveillance & Society, 19:1, 98-103.

▪ Akbari, A. (2021). Academic Reading for Non-Native English Speakers. HINT: Heidelberg Inspirations for Innovative Teaching, 2, 29-47.

▪ Akbari A. (2020). Follow the Thing: Data – Contestations over Data from the Global South. Antipode, 52:2, 408-429.

▪ Akbari, A. (2019). Spatial|Data Justice: Mapping and Digitised Strolling against Moral Police in Iran. Development Informatics Working Paper no.76, University of Manchester, UK.

▪ Akbari, A., Gabdulhakov, R. (2019). Platform Surveillance and Resistance in Iran and Russia: The Case of Telegram. Surveillance and Society, 17:1/2, 223-231

▪ Madani, S., Akbari, A. et al. (2011). Drug Management in Iran: A Periodical Schema. Addiction Research and theory, 19:2, 112-120.

Book Chapters

▪ Akbari, A. (2025- accepted). The Birth of Code/Body. In V. Steeves & B. Roessler (eds.). Being Human in A Digital World. Cambridge University Press.

▪ Akbari, A. (2025). Digital Development Dilemma. In A. Akbari & S. Masiero (eds.). Critical ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development), Routledge, 15-29.

▪ Akbari, A. & Masiero, S. (2025). Introduction. In A. Akbari & S. Masiero (eds.). Critical ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development), Routledge, 1-11.

▪ Madon, S., Akbari, A. & Masiero, S. (2025). The Evolution of ICT4D: Content, Context, and Process. In A. Akbari & S. Masiero (eds.). Critical ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development), Routledge, 30-39.

▪ Akbari, A. (2024). Information and communication technology for development (ICT4D). In The Companion to Development Studies (4th ed). Routledge, 521-525.

▪ Akbari, A. (2023). Situating Data: A critique of universalist approaches to data. In T. Osborne, & P. Jones (eds.), A Research Agenda for Digital Geographies. Glos: Edward Elgar, 127-132.

▪ Akbari, A. (2021). Threat of Automating Control: Surveillance of Women’s Clothing in Iran. In A. Završnik, & V. Badalič (eds.), Automating Crime Prevention, Surveillance, and Military Operations. Cham: Springer, 183-199.

Conference Papers

▪  Akbari, A., Masiero, S. (2023). Critical ICT4D: The Need for a Paradigm Change. In: Jones, M.R., Mukherjee, A.S., Thapa, D., Zheng, Y. (eds) After Latour: Globalisation, Inequity and Climate Change. IFIPJWC 2023. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 696. Cham: Springer, 350-5.

▪ Akbari, A. (2021). A Resilient ICT4D Approach to ECO Countries’ Education Response during COVID-19 Pandemic. In S. Masiero, & P. Nielsen (Eds.), IFIP 9.4 Conference Proceedings 2021: Resilient ICT4D. International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP)’s Working Group on the Implications of Information and Digital Technologies for Development. Department of Informatics, University of Oslo.

Book Reviews, Editorials, & Research Notes

▪ Akbari, A. (2025- upcoming). The Objectivity Double Bind of Researching from Exile. Geographica Helvetica.

▪ Akbari, A. (2023). Book Review: Politics of Rightful Killing. Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan. Anthropos, 118:2, 663-4.

▪ Dodds, K., Taylor, Z., Akbari, A., Castán Broto, V., Detterbeck, K., Inverardi-Ferri, C., Lee, K., Mamadouh, V., Ramutsindela, M., Yuan Woon, C. (2023) The Russian invasion of Ukraine: implications for politics, territory and governance, Territory, Politics, Governance, 11:8, 1519-1536.

▪ Akbari, A. (2021). FEMINISTISCHE+DIGITALE+GEOGRAPHIE+N: die Politik einer Kontamination.  Feministisches Geo-RundMail, 85, 6-11.

Dissertations

▪ Akbari. A. (2020). Surveillance as Spatial Injustice: The Case of Iran. PhD Dissertation, Heidelberg University.

▪ Akbari, A. (2011). Public sexual harassment in Tehran: shame, respectability, honour and gender performativity. MSc Dissertation, LSE Gender Institute, September 2011.

For my publications in Farsi please visit my Farsi website.

Akbari, A. (2023, Apr) ‘The internet is a crucial space for women to build international solidarity‘ – Opinion: An internet that women want? It looks like this, CNN Opinion and As Equals.

Akbari, A. (2022, Nov) Iran: Digital Spaces of Protest and Control: Piloting Report on the Guide on Digitally-Mediated Assemblies, European Center for Not-for-Profit Law.

Akbari, A. (2022, September 27) Iran’s women need a free and global internet, The Guardian (print).

Akbari, A. (2022, September 26) Shutting down the internet is another brutal blow against women by the Iranian regime, Retrieved from The Guardian/Opinion (online).

Akbari, A. (2021). 01110011 01101111 01110011 [SOS]. Surveillance & Society 19(4): 441-444.

Akbari, A. (2021). Navigating through a Carpet-Map. Retrieved from the Personal Website. https://azadeh-akbari.com/navigating-through-a-carpet-map/ [to be published in the book, “Experimental and Radical Cartographies”, by Philippe Rekacewicz and Nepthys Zwer]

Akbari, A. (2015, September 28). Young Afghans Weigh Their Future. Retrieved from UNHCR Tracks: http://tracks.unhcr.org/2015/09/youny-afghans-weigh-their-future/

Akbari, A. (2009). The Women’s Movement: An Emerging Power. LSE IDEAS Strategic Updates: Prospects for Reform? The Iranian Elections, June 2009, 11-14.

Documentaries

Short documentary on Haruki Murakami, Tamasha Magazine, BBC Persian Television, July 2013, 15 Minutes