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Mental disability and the right to personal liberty in Africa (2017)
Journal Article
Enonchong, L.-S. (2017). Mental disability and the right to personal liberty in Africa. The International Journal of Human Rights, 21(9), 1351-1377. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2017.1322067

The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights is leading an initiative to draft a disability protocol. This is particularly important for persons with mental disability as the draft protocol makes specific provisions guaranteeing their right to... Read More about Mental disability and the right to personal liberty in Africa.

Policing gender mobilities: interrogating the ‘feminisation of migration’ to Europe (2017)
Journal Article
Marchetti, S., & Salih, R. (2017). Policing gender mobilities: interrogating the ‘feminisation of migration’ to Europe. International Review of Sociology, 27(1), 6-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/03906701.2017.1303966

This article proposes a gendered critique of the European Neighbourhood Policy, a framework that, amongst other things, aims to facilitate the mobility of migrants to the EU from the bordering countries. We highlight the ambivalences of European gend... Read More about Policing gender mobilities: interrogating the ‘feminisation of migration’ to Europe.

'Interruption' (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2017, May). 'Interruption'. Presented at Weekly Seminar, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

This project offers a critical historical analysis of the all but forgotten eighteenth-century lifeworlds of the enslaved West Africans, who were brought largely from the ports of Senegambia as well as, to a lesser extent, Ouidah (in present-day Beni... Read More about 'Interruption'.

'Archival Violence: An Ethnography of (Un)Archiving Enslaved Gender-Variant West Africans' (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2017, May). 'Archival Violence: An Ethnography of (Un)Archiving Enslaved Gender-Variant West Africans'. Paper presented at Biennial Conference, Society for the Anthropology of Religion, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

The eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Anglo-American archive of the trans-Atlantic slave trade has been described as an agonism (Kazanjian, 2016). On the one hand, as Saidiya Hartman suggests, what little remains of the official records of the lifew... Read More about 'Archival Violence: An Ethnography of (Un)Archiving Enslaved Gender-Variant West Africans'.

Gender and Justice in Family Law Disputes: Women, Mediation, and Religious Arbitration (2017)
Book
Bano, S. (Ed.). (2017). Gender and Justice in Family Law Disputes: Women, Mediation, and Religious Arbitration. Brandeis University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv102bhb9

Recently, new methods of dispute resolution in matters of family law—such as arbitration, mediation, and conciliation—have created new forms of legal culture that affect minority communities throughout the world. There are now multiple ways of obtain... Read More about Gender and Justice in Family Law Disputes: Women, Mediation, and Religious Arbitration.

Foreword (2017)
Book Chapter
Al-Ali, N. (2017). Foreword. In A. Öcalan (Ed.), The Political Thought of Abdullah Öcalan: Kurdistan, Women's Revolution and Democratic Confederalism (vii-xvii). Pluto Press

Foreword (2017)
Book Chapter
Al-Ali, N. (2017). Foreword. In A. Öcalan (Ed.), The Political Thought of Abdullah Öcalan: Kurdistan, Women's Revolution and Democratic Confederalism (vii-xvii). Pluto Press