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A Cry for Madness: Governance Feminism and Neoliberal Unity in Pakistan (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2014, May). A Cry for Madness: Governance Feminism and Neoliberal Unity in Pakistan. Presented at Governance Feminism Workshop, The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, London, UK

This paper seeks to provide a critical reflection on the feminist movements in Pakistan. It includes an assessment of the concerted forces of homogenisation, ‘expertisation’, and discursively symptomatic power-engagements with governmental, crypto-go... Read More about A Cry for Madness: Governance Feminism and Neoliberal Unity in Pakistan.

The Khwajasara Movement and the Challenge of Translocality (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2014, April). The Khwajasara Movement and the Challenge of Translocality. Presented at 5th LAEMOS Conference, Havana, Cuba

This paper offers a critical ethnographic account of the khwajasara movement, based on the author’s most recent fieldwork in Lahore, Pakistan in 2011 and 2012. Khwajasara, known elsewhere in the Indian Subcontinent as hijre (sing. hijra), are Pakista... Read More about The Khwajasara Movement and the Challenge of Translocality.

Rethinking Crime in the Islamic Legal Tradition (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2014, January). Rethinking Crime in the Islamic Legal Tradition. Presented at Westminster Law School Research Seminars, University of Westminster, London, UK

This paper offers a critical historical overview of the varying concepts of crime in Islamic legal tradition, focusing on the four examples from the classical, postclassical and the contemporary eras of Islamic law. The first example presents a brief... Read More about Rethinking Crime in the Islamic Legal Tradition.

Gender and Islamic Criminal Law in Nigeria: The Zina Case of Ms Amina Lawal (Part 2 of the author’s lecture series ‘Crime in Islamic Legal Tradition: A Reapprisal’) (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2014, January). Gender and Islamic Criminal Law in Nigeria: The Zina Case of Ms Amina Lawal (Part 2 of the author’s lecture series ‘Crime in Islamic Legal Tradition: A Reapprisal’). Presented at Global Law and Economic Policy Workshop, Institute for Global Law and Policy (of Harvard Law School), Hamad bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar

This lecture provides a case study for the previously-conducted general historical exploration of the fundamental tenets of Islamic criminal law. It introduces the pluralist legal system of Nigeria, with a particular focus on Muslim zina (adultery) l... Read More about Gender and Islamic Criminal Law in Nigeria: The Zina Case of Ms Amina Lawal (Part 2 of the author’s lecture series ‘Crime in Islamic Legal Tradition: A Reapprisal’).

Understanding Crime in Islamic Jurisprudence and Muslim Societies (Part 1 of the author’s lecture series ‘Crime in Islamic Legal Tradition: A Reappraisal’) (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2014, January). Understanding Crime in Islamic Jurisprudence and Muslim Societies (Part 1 of the author’s lecture series ‘Crime in Islamic Legal Tradition: A Reappraisal’). Presented at Global Law and Economic Policy Workshop, Institute for Global Law and Policy (of Harvard Law School), Hamad bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar

This lecture discusses some of the elementary concepts relating to Islamic criminal law and justice and then briefly focuses on four specific examples, some historical and some contemporary, of the diversity immanent to this field; a diversity based... Read More about Understanding Crime in Islamic Jurisprudence and Muslim Societies (Part 1 of the author’s lecture series ‘Crime in Islamic Legal Tradition: A Reappraisal’).

Muslims and Normativities (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2013, September). Muslims and Normativities. Presented at Comparative Approaches to Islamic Law and Economy, Amman, Jordan

The thematic focus of this project can be described as an attempt to critically reconsider various historical and present-day forms of social and legal normativity, within and without the Islamic legal tradition, that have influenced Muslim polities... Read More about Muslims and Normativities.

The (Un)Conscious Pariah: Canine and Gender Outcasts of the British Raj (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2013, September). The (Un)Conscious Pariah: Canine and Gender Outcasts of the British Raj. Presented at Dogs, Pigs and Children: Changing Laws in Colonial Britain, Centre for the Study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law, SOAS, University of London

In the post-1857 colonial era, the Indian social and legal landscape underwent a seismic shift, caused by an evermore direct and forceful British rule in many spheres of life, including human-animal and gender relations. This paper provides a brief a... Read More about The (Un)Conscious Pariah: Canine and Gender Outcasts of the British Raj.

The Negative Hypothesis: On Rights and Relations in Marxist Legal Thought (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2013, August). The Negative Hypothesis: On Rights and Relations in Marxist Legal Thought. Paper presented at The New Marxist Writing in International Law, City University London

This project reassesses various Marxist approaches to human rights, arguing for a return to the 'negative hypothesis' – one in which the liberal panacea of rights is eschewed in favour of various forms of syndicated action. It begins with Marx and En... Read More about The Negative Hypothesis: On Rights and Relations in Marxist Legal Thought.

On Muslim Sexual and Gender Diversity and Lifeworlds beyond Legal Form (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2013, July). On Muslim Sexual and Gender Diversity and Lifeworlds beyond Legal Form. Paper presented at Law, Religion and LGBT Rights, Brunel Law School, Brunel University

The proposition of this brief intervention is threefold. Firstly, it attempts to underscore the value of historical analyses of Islamic law and the past Muslim polities for our present-day understanding of the various Muslim social and legal discours... Read More about On Muslim Sexual and Gender Diversity and Lifeworlds beyond Legal Form.

Neoliberalism, Law and Dissent: On Mimicry and Fetishism in the Time of Crisis (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2013, June). Neoliberalism, Law and Dissent: On Mimicry and Fetishism in the Time of Crisis. Paper presented at Neoliberal Legality Workshop, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford

This paper briefly elaborates three specific movements in the author's general research of neoliberal legality: (1) that of the transformative potential in analysing the new types of fetishism of neoliberal legal form; (2) the insurrectionary politic... Read More about Neoliberalism, Law and Dissent: On Mimicry and Fetishism in the Time of Crisis.

Regendering the Nation: The Khwajasara Movement in Pakistan (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2013, April). Regendering the Nation: The Khwajasara Movement in Pakistan. Paper presented at 18th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Harriman Institute, Columbia University

This paper presents a critical ethnographic account of Pakistani khwajasara, based on the author’s most recent fieldwork in Lahore in 2011. Khwajasara, known elsewhere in the Indian Subcontinent as hijra, are Pakistani gender-variant subject position... Read More about Regendering the Nation: The Khwajasara Movement in Pakistan.

Toward an Interruptive History of Islamic Law (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2013, January). Toward an Interruptive History of Islamic Law. Paper presented at Global Law and Economic Policy Workshop, Institute for Global Law and Policy (of Harvard Law School), Hamad bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar

This paper critically assesses the potentials and the limits of the two major streams of historiography of Islamic law - the 'scripturalist' and the 'new historian' stream - in order to account for many significant yet often overlooked factors that... Read More about Toward an Interruptive History of Islamic Law.

Rethinking Crime in Islamic Legal Tradition (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2012, November). Rethinking Crime in Islamic Legal Tradition. Paper presented at Crime, Justice and Society, City University London

This paper offers a critical historical overview of the varying concepts of crime in Islamic legal tradition, focusing on the four examples from the classical, postclassical and the contemporary eras of Islamic law. The first example presents a brief... Read More about Rethinking Crime in Islamic Legal Tradition.

Developments in Islamic Law relating to Sexual and Gender Diversity (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2012, November). Developments in Islamic Law relating to Sexual and Gender Diversity. Paper presented at Religion and Human Rights: Religion in Private and Public Spaces, Human Rights Law Centre, University of Nottingham

Drawing on the examples from Seljuk, Mamluk and Ottoman laws and societies, this paper presents some conflicting historiographies and hermeneutics of Islamic law relating to human sexual and gender diversity. It focuses, in particular, on the (social... Read More about Developments in Islamic Law relating to Sexual and Gender Diversity.

Place, Power and Sexual/Gender Irony: Indonesian Archipelagic and Islandic Selves (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2012, July). Place, Power and Sexual/Gender Irony: Indonesian Archipelagic and Islandic Selves. Paper presented at European Association of Social Anthropologists 12th Biennial Conference, Nanterre, France

This paper interrogates the resilient ironies of gender/sexual pluralism in Indonesia, which challenge and resist both heteronormative and homonormative identitary scripts. It presents an anthropological account of subjectivity formation and negotiat... Read More about Place, Power and Sexual/Gender Irony: Indonesian Archipelagic and Islandic Selves.

Re-Centring Periphery through Non-Co-Operation: Khwajasara Movement and Limits of Global Law in Pakistan (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2012, February). Re-Centring Periphery through Non-Co-Operation: Khwajasara Movement and Limits of Global Law in Pakistan. Paper presented at International Law and the Periphery Conference, American University in Cairo

This study presents a critical legal ethnography of Pakistani khwajasara, located at the very periphery of international law yet at the centre of global legal crisis. Khwajasara, known elsewhere as hijra, are Pakistani gender variant subject position... Read More about Re-Centring Periphery through Non-Co-Operation: Khwajasara Movement and Limits of Global Law in Pakistan.

Indonesian Archipelagic Ipseities: Beyond Human Rights and Dichotomies of Personhood (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2011, December). Indonesian Archipelagic Ipseities: Beyond Human Rights and Dichotomies of Personhood. Presented at Queer at King's Lectures Series, King's College London

This talk presents a brief legal anthropological account of the narratives and politics of representation of various human subjectivities in Indonesia who transgress the dominant universalising sexual and gender norms. It traces both macro- and micro... Read More about Indonesian Archipelagic Ipseities: Beyond Human Rights and Dichotomies of Personhood.

Beyond the Binary Equations of Sexual/Gender Experience: An Inquiry into Indonesian Selfhood and Polyversality (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2011, October). Beyond the Binary Equations of Sexual/Gender Experience: An Inquiry into Indonesian Selfhood and Polyversality. Paper presented at Otherness, Subjectivity and Representation, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

This study presents a critical ethnographic analysis of the narratives and politics of representation of gender-variant human subjectivities in Indonesia. It interrogates, in particular, Eisenstein's concept of ‘polyversal’ personhood in relation to... Read More about Beyond the Binary Equations of Sexual/Gender Experience: An Inquiry into Indonesian Selfhood and Polyversality.

Dress to Impress: Phenomenology and Materiality of Liberal Human Rights Fashion in Global Law and in Indonesia (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2011, September). Dress to Impress: Phenomenology and Materiality of Liberal Human Rights Fashion in Global Law and in Indonesia. Presented at The Phenomenology of Global Order: Inquiries into the Materiality of International Law, Centre for the Study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law, SOAS, University of London

This paper interrogates some phenomenological and material implications of the dominant liberal human rights discourse within the emergent realm of global law. Liberal rights are analysed here as a ubiquitous fashion of global lawyering, ‘an ethical... Read More about Dress to Impress: Phenomenology and Materiality of Liberal Human Rights Fashion in Global Law and in Indonesia.

Unlearning Human Rights and False Grand Dichotomies? (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2011, September). Unlearning Human Rights and False Grand Dichotomies?. Presented at Human Rights Beyond the Law: Politics, Practices, Performances of Protest, Jindal Global University, Sonipat and New Delhi, India

This paper offers a brief genealogical analysis of sexual and gender diversity in Indonesia. It traces various streams of regulation, including those reliant on liberal legalistic discourse of human rights. It is argued that this discourse remains in... Read More about Unlearning Human Rights and False Grand Dichotomies?.