Dr. Sana Chavoshian
Research Fellow
Email: Sana.Chavoshian(at)zmo.de
Current research:
My research focuses on war- and sanction-ecologies in Iran and Iraq, exploring how material and affective environments shape atmospheres and unsettle boundaries between religion, politics, and everyday life. I investigate how these landscapes of wars invoke, stage and orchestrate new forms of collective memory, dreamscape, and resistance through embodied experiences and sensory (olfactory, auratic and haptic) relations to the environment. By examining martyrdom, women dreams and rituals in their pious circles, and state politics in post-war Iran, my work reveals how religion and secularity are felt and lived beyond formal state scripts—through the atmospheres of breath, dust, and landscape in contested borderlands marked by war and sanctions.
Research project:
"Suspension: Dust-wind in Irans landscapes of war"