All Outputs (7)

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.