2026

▪Akbari, A. (2026). Uneven Datafication: Further Thoughts. Dialogues on Digital Society, 2(2), 205-210.

▪Akbari, A. (2026). Uneven Datafication. Dialogues on Digital Society, 2(2), 158-180. [Anchor article for the Dialogue Forum with responses from Sareeta Amrute, Payal Arora, Yung Au, Orit Halpern, and Jathan Sadowski]

▪Akbari, A. & Wood, David M. (2026). Smart Cities as Control Cities. In R. Fouché (ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Society, online edn: Oxford Academic.

2025

▪Abbey, M., & Akbari, A. (2025). A Critique of Surveillant Assemblage: Bodies, Desire, and the Limits of the Data Double. Surveillance & Society, 23(4), 511–517.

▪Akbari, A. (2025). The Birth of Code/Body. In B. Roessler & V. Steeves (Eds.), Being Human in the Digital World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (pp. 129–142). chapter, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

▪ Akbari, A. (2025). Big Tech authoritarianism: Political synergies of an emerging power. Dialogues on Digital Society (online first).

▪Akbari, A. & Wood, David M. (2025). Towards a Critical Political Economy of Surveillance and Digital Authoritarianism. Surveillance & Society, 23 (1): 152-158.

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

▪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.

2024

▪Akbari, A. (2024). The politics of data justice: exit, voice, or rehumanisation? Information, Communication & Society, 28(6), 989–1005.

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

2023

▪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., & 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. (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.

2022

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

2021

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

▪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.

▪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.

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

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

2020

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

2019

▪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

2011

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

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. (2026). از مدرن‌سازی تا «برگرداندن ایران به عصر حجر», Radio Zamaneh, 07.04.2026. https://www.radiozamaneh.com/885196/

▪ Akbari, A. (2026). Key Questions on the Role of Technology in the Expanding Middle East War. Tech Policy Press, 05.03.2026. https://www.techpolicy.press/key-questions-on-the-role-of-technology-in-the-expanding-middle-east-war/

▪ Akbari, A. (2026). Iran zerstört die Illusion digitaler Souveränität, .Tagesspiegel Background, 26.01.2026.

▪ Akbari, A. (2026). Iran’s Case Should Put an End to Illusions About Digital Sovereignty, Tech Policy Press, 15.01.2026. https://www.techpolicy.press/irans-case-should-put-an-end-to-illusions-about-digital-sovereignty/

▪ Akbari, A. (2023). 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, 27.04.2023. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/27/opinions/safer-internet-women-lgbtq-as-equals-intl-cmd/index.html

▪ Akbari, A. (2023). Iran: Digital Spaces of Protests and Control- Piloting Report on the Guide on Digitally-Mediated Assemblies, European Center for Non-Profit Law. https://ecnl.org/publications/iran-digital-spaces-protest-and-control

▪ Akbari, A. (2022). Shutting down the internet is another brutal blow against women by the Iranian regime. The Guardian Opinion (online), 26.09.2022. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/26/elon-musk-iran-women-mahsa-amini-feminists-morality-police

▪ Akbari, A. (2022). Iran’s women need a free and global internet. The Guardian Opinion (print), 27.09.2022.

▪ Akbari, A. (2021). 01110011 01101111 01110011. Surveillance & Society Special Issue on “Surveillance Stories: Imagining Surveillance Futures”. 19, Nr. 4: 441-444.

▪ Akbari, A. (2021). Navigating through a Carpet-Map. In Rekacewicz, P., & Zwer, N. Cartographie radicale: explorations. La Découverte.

▪ Akbari, A. (2019). Designated researcher for Iran profile for the report on the Blue Peace Index, The Economist Intelligence Unit.

▪ Akbari, A. (2016). Designated researcher for Iran profile for the report on the Global Access to Healthcare, The Economist Intelligence Unit.

▪ 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