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'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'.

'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'.

Alegality or Infrapolitics? (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V., & Cheesman, N. (2017, February). Alegality or Infrapolitics?. Presented at Law and the Social Sciences Seminar, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Alegality: Outside and Beyond the Legal Logic of Late Capitalism (2017)
Book Chapter
Hamzić, V. (2017). Alegality: Outside and Beyond the Legal Logic of Late Capitalism. In H. Brabazon (Ed.), Neoliberal Legality: Understanding the Role of Law in the Neoliberal Project (190-209). Routledge

This chapter examines the prospect of radical re-imagination of the paradigm of law and legality, tout court. It is argued that – in the present-day capitalist mode of economic, cultural and political production – every law and law-making activity is... Read More about Alegality: Outside and Beyond the Legal Logic of Late Capitalism.

Selfhood and Archipelago in Indonesia: A Case for Human Polyversality (2017)
Book Chapter
Hamzić, V. (2017). Selfhood and Archipelago in Indonesia: A Case for Human Polyversality. In O. Sircar, & P. Jain (Eds.), New Intimacies / Old Desires: Law, Culture and Queer Politics in Neoliberal Times (235-252). Zubaan Books; Chicago University Press

‘Gender-Variance, Society and Law in Indonesia’ (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2017, January). ‘Gender-Variance, Society and Law in Indonesia’. Presented at The IGLP Asian Regional Workshop, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School, Bangkok, Thailand

‘Whither the Law (and the State) in Southeast Asian Histories?’ (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2017, January). ‘Whither the Law (and the State) in Southeast Asian Histories?’. Presented at The IGLP Asian Regional Workshop, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School, Bangkok, Thailand

Review of: Ethnicity and International Law: Histories, Politics and Practices by Mohammad Shahabuddin (2016)
Journal Article
Hamzić, V. (2016). Review of: Ethnicity and International Law: Histories, Politics and Practices by Mohammad Shahabuddin. Melbourne journal of international law, 17(2), 489-493

Mohammad Shahabuddin’s book is a comprehensive and much-needed historical study of the role of ethnicity in the making of international law. It calls for a heightened attention to a pair of opposites: the nineteenth-century Romantic idea of the natio... Read More about Review of: Ethnicity and International Law: Histories, Politics and Practices by Mohammad Shahabuddin.

Book Review: The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority and the Making of the Muslim State by Iza R. Hussin (2016)
Journal Article
Hamzić, V. Book Review: The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority and the Making of the Muslim State by Iza R. Hussin. LSE Review of Books,

In The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority and the Making of the Muslim State, Iza R. Hussin traces a riveting history of Islamic law as it encounters, and is inevitably transformed by, British colonialism in Malaya, Egypt and I... Read More about Book Review: The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority and the Making of the Muslim State by Iza R. Hussin.

Mir-Said Sultan-Galiev and the Idea of Muslim Marxism: Empire, Third World(s) and Praxis (2016)
Journal Article
Hamzić, V. (2016). Mir-Said Sultan-Galiev and the Idea of Muslim Marxism: Empire, Third World(s) and Praxis. Third World Quarterly, 37(11), 2047-2060. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2016.1166048

This paper revisits the idea of Muslim Marxism, as espoused through the life and work of the Tatar Muslim and Bolshevik intellectual and revolutionary Mir-Said Sultan-Galiev (1892-1940). I argue that Sultan-Galiev’s oeuvre – a unique synthesis of Mar... Read More about Mir-Said Sultan-Galiev and the Idea of Muslim Marxism: Empire, Third World(s) and Praxis.

Review of Faisal Devji, Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea (Hurst and Company, London, 2013) (2016)
Journal Article
Hamzić, V. (2016). Review of Faisal Devji, Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea (Hurst and Company, London, 2013). South Asia Research, 36(2), 288-290. https://doi.org/10.1177/0262728016638617

In today’s world of nation states, the distinct pedigrees of independent polities are often organised into two foundational trajectories: states whose traditions of collective belonging are derived from, or adjusted to, the conventional mythology of... Read More about Review of Faisal Devji, Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea (Hurst and Company, London, 2013).

‘Speaking Law’s Home: Law, Language and Anthropology’ (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V., & Painter, G. (2016, June). ‘Speaking Law’s Home: Law, Language and Anthropology’. Presented at Law and Society Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Muslim World: History, Law and Vernacular Knowledge (2016)
Book
Hamzić, V. (2016). Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Muslim World: History, Law and Vernacular Knowledge. I.B. Tauris. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755609147

This book offers a path-breaking historical analysis of the discourses on sexual and gender diversity in, or related to, the Muslim world, as well as an ethnographic account of contemporary Muslims in Lahore, Pakistan, whose pluralist sexual and gend... Read More about Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Muslim World: History, Law and Vernacular Knowledge.

‘International Law as Violence: Competing Absences of the Other’ (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2016, January). ‘International Law as Violence: Competing Absences of the Other’. Paper presented at Queer Perspectives on Law III: Queering the International: Internationalising the Queer, Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS, University of London

International Law as Violence: Competing Absences of the Other (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2015, December). International Law as Violence: Competing Absences of the Other. Paper presented at Queering International Law: Possibilities, Alliances, Complicities, Risks, Institute for International Law and the Humanities, Melbourne Law School, Melbourne, Australia

This paper analyses the would-be paradox of international law’s continuous evolution towards evermore-diverse forms of juridical violence. From the falsehood of imperial pacifism, through the perils of its multiple turns to ‘pragmatism’ and quasi-pro... Read More about International Law as Violence: Competing Absences of the Other.

Mir-Said Sultan-Galiev and the Idea of Muslim Marxism: Empire, Third World(s) and Praxis (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2015, September). Mir-Said Sultan-Galiev and the Idea of Muslim Marxism: Empire, Third World(s) and Praxis. Paper presented at Third World Approaches to International Law Writing Workshop: On Praxis and the Intellectual, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland

This paper revisits the idea of Muslim Marxism, as espoused through the life and work of the Tatar Muslim and Bolshevik intellectual and revolutionary Mir-Said Sultan-Galiev (1892-1940). I argue that Sultan-Galiev’s oeuvre – a unique synthesis of Mar... Read More about Mir-Said Sultan-Galiev and the Idea of Muslim Marxism: Empire, Third World(s) and Praxis.

The Dera Paradigm: Homecoming of the Gendered Other (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2015, July). The Dera Paradigm: Homecoming of the Gendered Other. Paper presented at Re-imagining Anthropological and Sociological Boundaries, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) Inter-Congress, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand

This paper engages with discursive and material spaces of dwelling of the South Asian gender-variant subjectivity, known as khwajasara, in the inner city slums of Lahore, Pakistan’s ancient cultural and urban centre. It examines a number of social pr... Read More about The Dera Paradigm: Homecoming of the Gendered Other.

On Muslim Marxism à la Mir-Said Sultan-Galiev: Empire, Law and Quietist Insurrections (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2015, June). On Muslim Marxism à la Mir-Said Sultan-Galiev: Empire, Law and Quietist Insurrections. Paper presented at Islamic Law and Empire, Research Conference, IGLP, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA

This paper attempts to critically reassess the roll of Empire and Law, as broad analytical categories, in the rise and fall of Muslim Marxism – an intriguing intellectual tradition seeking to reconcile rudimentary Marxist views on social and economic... Read More about On Muslim Marxism à la Mir-Said Sultan-Galiev: Empire, Law and Quietist Insurrections.