Peyman Vahabzadeh

Areas of interest

Human action and social movements, social theory, phenomenology, postcolonial studies, and violence and nonviolence.

Education

• PhD, Sociology, Simon Fraser University
• BA, Anthropology and Sociology, Simon Fraser University

Biography

Peyman Vahabzadeh is Professor of Sociology and Director of Cultural, Social, and Political Thought (CSPT) Program at University of Victoria. He is the author of "Articulated Experiences: Toward A Radical Phenomenology of Contemporary Social Movements" (SUNY Press, 2003), "A Guerrilla Odyssey: and the Fadai Period of National Liberation in Iran, 1970–1979" (Syracuse University Press, 2010), and "Exilic Meditations: Essays on A Displaced Life" (H&S Media, 2013), the guest editor of the special issue of West Coast Line on “Writing Rupture: Iranian Emigration Literature” (2003) and special issue of Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory on “Democracy at the Time of Politics of Fright” (2007). He is also the author of nine books in Persian. His essays, poems, short stories, and interviews have appeared in English, Persian, Kurdish, and German.