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Akbari. A & Masiero, S (Ed.). 2025. Critical ICT4D (Information & Communication Technology for Development). Routledge.

Murakami Wood, D., van Brakel, R., Bruno, F. & A. Akbari (Eds.). 2025. International Handbook of Critical Surveillance Studies. Edward Elgar.

  • 2023

Akbari, A. 2023. Situating Data: A Critique against Universalist Approaches to Data. In T. Osborne & P. Jones (Eds.), A Research Agenda for Digital Geographies. Edward Elgar.

Akbari, A. 2023. Information & Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D). In Desai, V., & Dauncey, E. (Eds.), Companion to Development Studies. (4th ed.) Routledge.

  • 2022

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

Akbari. A. . ‘Authoritarian Surveillance: A Corona Test.’ Surveillance & Society, 19(1): 98-103. doi: 10.24908/ss.v19i1.14545

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). 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. ‘FEMINISTISCHE+DIGITALE+GEOGRAPHIE+N: die Politik einer Kontamination.’ Feministisches Geo-RundMail, 85, S. 6-11.

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

Akbari. A. . Surveillance as Spatial Injustice: The Case of Iran Dissertation, Heidelberg Universität.

Akbari A. . ‘Follow the Thing: Data – Contestations over Data from the Global South.’ Antipode 52, Nr. 2: 408-429. doi: 10.1111/anti.12596.

Akbari, A., Gabdulhakov, R. . ‘Platform Surveillance and Resistance in Iran and Russia: The Case of Telegram.’ Surveillance and Society 17, Nr. 1/2: 223-231. doi: 10.24908/ss.v17i1/2.12928.

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

Madani S, Akbari A, Mohammadi MA, Rafiey AH, Foroozan AS, Shiani M. . ‘Drug management in Iran: A periodical schema.’ Addiction Research & Theory 19, Nr. 2: 112-120. doi: 10.3109/16066351003597159.