Sahar Aurore Saeidnia
Postdoctoral researcher
Sahar Aurore Saeidnia is a Cofund MARIE CURIE postdoctoral researcher at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). She holds a Ph.D in sociology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS Paris). Her research interests have revolved around three main axes related to her Iranian fieldwork: developing a comparative anthropological approach of everyday politics; reflecting on the circulations of discourses and know-hows (from global to micro-local and vice- versa); and exploring methodological and ethical issues raised in sensitive fieldwork. Since 2019 she has been coordinating the annual seminar of the Observatoire des Mondes Arabes et Musulmans (OMAM) at the ULB. Alongside her publications in peer-reviewed journals (Gouvernement et Action Publique, Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée, Sens Public), she has co-edited “Les mondes de la bienfaisance. (Se) gouverner par le bien, (se) mobiliser pour le bien (CNRS Editions, Paris, 2021), and published “Experiences with Deliberation in the Islamic Republic of Iran”, in Deliberation in Divided Societies: Case Studies and Cross-Sectional Analysis, Juan Ugarriza & Didier Caluwaertz (eds.) (Palgrave Macmillan, New York: 2014).
