Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
ABOUT
Maziyar Ghiabi (DPhil Oxford) is a transdisciplinary researcher working on the intersection of politics and health using ethnographic and historical approaches. His work concerns the everyday life of the state and state-society relations. His work is best known for uncovering the politics of illegal drugs and ‘addiction’ in West Asia, in particular Iran, but he has also carried out research across the Global South.
Since 2021, he is a Wellcome University Award holder at the University of Exeter on the project "Living ‘Addiction’ in States of Disruption: a transdisciplinary approach to drug consumption and recovery in the Middle East". Before this, Maziyar was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Drugs & (Dis)Order Project, based at the SOAS (University of London) and held research and teaching positions at Oxford University, the EHESS and SciencesPO. His first book Drugs Politics: Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran (London: Cambridge University Press, 2019, also in Open Access) was awarded the 2020 Book of the Year (Nikki Keddie Award) by the Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA). Maziyar is also the author of Power and Illicit Drugs in the Global South (Routledge, 2019) and other peer-reviewed publications in English, French, Portuguese, Italian, Arabic and Persian. He sits on the Editorial Board of Third World Quarterly, the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs, and the Journal of Illicit Economies and Development.
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
Development
Ethnography
Health
History Of Medicine
Iranian Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
State Formation
Theory
Urban Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Iran
Lebanon
Mediterranean Countries
Syria
Specialties
Everyday History
Drugs And 'addiction'
The Politics Of Health
Languages
Persian (native)
Italian (native)
Arabic (advanced)
French (advanced)
English (advanced)
Spanish (fluent)
Latin (intermediate)
Education
DPhil
| 2017
| Politics and International Relations
| Oxford University
MPhil
| 2013
| Oriental Studies
| University of Oxford
MA
| 2010
| International Relations
| University of Venice Ca' Foscari
BA
| 2008
| Eurasian and Mediterennean Studies
| University of Venice Ca' Foscari
Abstracts
The pharmakon to all evils: knowledge production on medicine/drugs in Iran, 1900-1941
