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TechnoViews #5 'Genocide/Feminicide, Memory, and Technologies of Violence' | Fazil Moradi (LOST)


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Fazil Moradi (LOST), Interviewed by Gonçalo Santos in December 2018 at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

FEATURED AUTHOR

Fazil Moradi is a postdoctoral researcher, member of the Law, Organization, Science and Technology (LOST) Research Network and an Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. He received his PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Halle-Wittenberg and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology with a dissertation on the translations of al-Anfāl genocide in Kurdistan-Iraq. His ethnographic inquiries are located in the Middle East, Africa and Europe, covering modernity’s infrastructures of violence – genocide-feminicide, effects of chemical weapons, ecological harm, global drones –, technoscience of evidence & testimony, aesthetics of violence, translation and hospitality. He teaches at the University of Halle-Wittenberg and is completing a monograph entitled, Hosting Genocide-Feminicide: On the Living On of the Un Translatable in Kurdistan, Iraq.

AUTHOR'S PERSONAL WEBSITE

https://lost-research-group.org/staff/fazil-moradi/

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  • Moradi, Fazil and Richard Rottenburg. (2019). “Introduction: Evidence – On the Translatability of Modernity’s Violence.” Critical Studies (Special Issue, “Evidence: On the Translatability of Modernity’s Violence.” Edited by F. Moradi and R. Rottenburg).

  • Moradi, Fazil (2019). “Un Translatable Death, Evidentiary Bodies: After – Auschwitz and Murambi – in Translation.” Critical Studies.

  • Moradi, Fazil (2018) “Love and Feminicide in Kurdistan,” tr. into Sorani Kurdish by Nabz Samad, Culture Magazine 3: 21-27.

  • Moradi, Fazil (2017) “Genocide in Translation: On Memory, Justice, and Future Remembrance.” in Memory and Genocide: On What Remains and the Possibility of Representation , edited by F. Moradi, R. Buchenhorst, and M. Six-Hohenbalken. London and New York: Routledge.

  • Moradi, Fazil (2016). “The Force of Writing in Genocide: On Sexual Violence in the al-Anfāl Operations and Beyond,” In Gender Violence in Peace and War: States of Complicity. Edited by V. Sanford et al. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, pp.102-115.

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