dr. Shahin Nasiri

Bio

Shahin Nasiri is a lecturer in philosophy at Tilburg University. His areas of research interest include social and political philosophy, phenomenology, migration and citizenship, critical (race) theory, theories of freedom, critical genealogy of violence and practices of resistance. Before joining Tilburg University, Shahin served as a lecturer in Applied Ethics and Philosophy of Science at the University of Wageningen & Research (WUR). He holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Amsterdam and studied Political Theory (LSE), Philosophy (Leiden), and Aerospace Engineering (Delft).

Expertise

Shahin's ongoing research situates itself at the intersection of phenomenology and political theory. In this interdisciplinary research project, he develops a theoretical examination of freedom from the perspective of refugees. He focuses on the interrelation of (un)freedom and refugeehood and explores the meaning and significance of (un)freedom on the basis of lived-experiences and narratives of refugees.

Shahin’s research also focuses on the legal-philosophical nature of mass political violence and experiences and practices resistance by which political agents unsettle conditions of violence and unfreedom. Together with a group of scholars and investigative journalists, he studied the 1981 Massacre in Iran and investigated this highly neglected mass atrocity based on legal-philosophical and archival research combined with extensive fieldwork and geolocation methods. The main results and findings of this research were published in the Journal of Genocide Research.

Onderwijs

Shahin Nasiri has taught on a wide range of topics on BA, MA, and PhD level in political philosophy, (applied) ethics, environmental philosophy, scientific integrity, and philosophy of science & technology.

Vakken

• Wicked Problems 101
• Wicked Problems 202:Devel.Theor.Insights
• Wicked Problems 301: Interv. Theories
• Wicked Problems 302: Phil. Reflections
• Justice and Inequality
• Thinking about Science (LAS)
• Discovering Diversity

Recente publicaties

1. Beyond Persecution: Refugeehood and abandonment

   Nasiri, S. (2023). Beyond Persecution: Refugeehood and abandonment. Paper presented at International Conference Migration and Societal Change, Utrecht, Netherlands. https://www.uu.nl/en/research/migration-and-societal-change/conference-2023/panels-and-workshops

2. Rethinking freedom from the perspective of refugees - Lived experienc…

   Nasiri, S. (2023). Rethinking freedom from the perspective of refugees: Lived experiences of (un)freedom in Europe’s border zones. [Doctoral Thesis, University of Amsterdam]. https://dare.uva.nl/search?identifier=2678ec30-3ef9-476c-901c-eab6ddd6e18c

3. The 1981 Massacre in Iran - Uncovering a Forgotten Mass Atrocity

   Nasiri, S. (2023). The 1981 Massacre in Iran: Uncovering a Forgotten Mass Atrocity. Paper presented at The 1981 Massacre in Iran, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDxI5QbZ53I&t=1s

4. The Idealised Subject of Freedom and the Refugee

   Nasiri, S. (2023). The Idealised Subject of Freedom and the Refugee. In Decolonising Political Concepts (pp. 61-79). Routledge.

5. (Un)freedom at Europe’s border zones

   Nasiri, S. (2023). (Un)freedom at Europe’s border zones. Paper presented at Decolonising La Mer Mortelle, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://spui25.nl/programma/decolonising-la-mer-mortelle-the-experiences-of-migrants-at-the-european-borders