All Outputs (140)

After Homo Narrans: Botany, International Law, and Senegambia in Early Racial Capitalist Worldmaking (2024)
Book Chapter
Hamzić, V. (2024). After Homo Narrans: Botany, International Law, and Senegambia in Early Racial Capitalist Worldmaking. In M. Arvindsson, & E. Jones (Eds.), International Law and Posthuman Theory. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032658032-10

This chapter engages an emergent science of categorization and speciation and its reverberations and affordances in European international law in the long eighteenth century. I focus on a distinct material locale—that of ‘proto-colonial’ Senegambia—s... Read More about After Homo Narrans: Botany, International Law, and Senegambia in Early Racial Capitalist Worldmaking.

Rival Systems: Islamic International Law during the Cold War (2024)
Book Chapter
Hamzić, V. (in press). Rival Systems: Islamic International Law during the Cold War. In M. Craven, S. Pahuja, & G. Simpson (Eds.), International Law during the Cold War, 1945-1990. Cambridge University Press

The present chapter seeks to provide a broad introduction to the problematics of an Islamic international law and its relationship with international law during the Cold War, paying attention to both juridical and political developments. I begin with... Read More about Rival Systems: Islamic International Law during the Cold War.

Temporal Nonconformity: Being There Together as Khwajasara in a Time of One’s Own (2023)
Book Chapter
Hamzić, V. (2023). Temporal Nonconformity: Being There Together as Khwajasara in a Time of One’s Own. In O. Kasmani (Ed.), Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere (125-145). Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.6305466.13

This chapter engages the temporality of khwajasara communal experience by examining a variety of ways in which this Pakistani gender nonconforming subjectivity has shared in the larger South Asian and/or Muslim memories and performance of gender and... Read More about Temporal Nonconformity: Being There Together as Khwajasara in a Time of One’s Own.

Legal Production of Racial Capitalism: Botany, International Law and Senegambia in Eighteenth-Century Worldmaking (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2023, June). Legal Production of Racial Capitalism: Botany, International Law and Senegambia in Eighteenth-Century Worldmaking. Paper presented at ‘Legal Production of Racial Capitalism’ Roundtable, Law and Society Association’s Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Dis-temporal Re-distributions: Worldings beyond the Racial Capitalist Gender Binary in Eighteenth-Century Senegambia and Colonial Louisiana (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2023, June). Dis-temporal Re-distributions: Worldings beyond the Racial Capitalist Gender Binary in Eighteenth-Century Senegambia and Colonial Louisiana. Paper presented at Gender and Political Economy Roundtable II: ‘Transnational and Comparative Perspectives’, Law and Society Association’s Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Cosmological and Gender-Bodily Resistance to an Emergent Racial Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century West Africa and Colonial Louisiana (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2023, March). Cosmological and Gender-Bodily Resistance to an Emergent Racial Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century West Africa and Colonial Louisiana. Presented at Invited talk, the Xenia Series (online), London / Cambridge

The fashioning of specifically ‘male’ and ‘female’ subjects—whether free, indentured or enslaved—was a sine qua non preoccupation of the early capitalist economy, of which the trans-Atlantic slave trade was one of the key derivatives. When this trade... Read More about Cosmological and Gender-Bodily Resistance to an Emergent Racial Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century West Africa and Colonial Louisiana.

International Law, Coloniality and Temporal Otherwise (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2022, November). International Law, Coloniality and Temporal Otherwise. Paper presented at Queering International Law, 2.0, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

What if the past and the future of international law can be thought of in temporal otherwise; a time that is, as Elizabeth Povinelli would put it, geontologically diverse; a time in which the lifeworlds of resistance to the violence of post- and/or n... Read More about International Law, Coloniality and Temporal Otherwise.

Approaching Resistance to the Racial Capitalist Gender Binary in Eighteenth-Century Senegambia and Colonial Louisiana: Quandaries and Inspiration (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2022, July). Approaching Resistance to the Racial Capitalist Gender Binary in Eighteenth-Century Senegambia and Colonial Louisiana: Quandaries and Inspiration. Paper presented at ‘Law, Capital, Slavery, Personhood: New Perspectives on Racial Capitalism’ Roundtable, Law and Society Association’s Global Meeting, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

Temporal Refuges and Interruptions: Racial Capitalism and Cosmological and Gender Nonconformity in Eighteenth- Century Senegambia and Colonial Louisiana (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2022, July). Temporal Refuges and Interruptions: Racial Capitalism and Cosmological and Gender Nonconformity in Eighteenth- Century Senegambia and Colonial Louisiana. Paper presented at Gender and Political Economy Roundtable III: ‘Transnational and Comparative Perspectives’, Law and Society Association’s Global Meeting, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

Life-making and the Feminist Otherwise: Discussant’s Responses (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2022, July). Life-making and the Feminist Otherwise: Discussant’s Responses. Paper presented at ‘Provincializing Euro-American Feminism’ Panel, Law and Society Association’s Global Meeting, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

Labours in Time and Subjectivity: Gender Nonconformity and Racial Capitalism in the Making of Eighteenth- Century New Orleans (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2022, June). Labours in Time and Subjectivity: Gender Nonconformity and Racial Capitalism in the Making of Eighteenth- Century New Orleans. Paper presented at ‘Law, Personhood and Racial Capitalism in the History of Empire’ Panel, Legal Histories of Empire Conference, Maynooth University, Ireland

Temporal Refuges and Interruptions: Racial Capitalism and Cosmological and Gender Nonconformity in Eighteenth-Century Senegambia and Colonial Louisiana (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2022, June). Temporal Refuges and Interruptions: Racial Capitalism and Cosmological and Gender Nonconformity in Eighteenth-Century Senegambia and Colonial Louisiana. Paper presented at Panel III: ‘Rethinking Capital’s Other? Religion/Race/Law’, Histories of Capitalism and Race Workshop, SOAS University of London

Productively Queer: An Ethnography of the "Business Case" for LGBTQI Diversity and Inclusion in India (2022)
Thesis
Aaberg, L. Productively Queer: An Ethnography of the "Business Case" for LGBTQI Diversity and Inclusion in India. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Convinced there is economic value to extract from LGBTQI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex) people and culture, corporate India has increasingly invested resources in practices of what proponents call “diversity and inclusion”... Read More about Productively Queer: An Ethnography of the "Business Case" for LGBTQI Diversity and Inclusion in India.

Islamic Law, the Private Sphere, State Policy and Transformations (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2021, May). Islamic Law, the Private Sphere, State Policy and Transformations. Paper presented at Gender and Private International Law Workshop, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg

Freud, Liberty and Parasitical Happiness (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2020, October). Freud, Liberty and Parasitical Happiness. Paper presented at IGLP: Crunching the Core: Exercises in Critical Theory, Harvard Law School

Economising the Gender Binary: Temporality and Displacement in Early Circum-Atlantic Racial Capitalism (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2020, October). Economising the Gender Binary: Temporality and Displacement in Early Circum-Atlantic Racial Capitalism. Paper presented at Duress and Virality: The Endurance of Racial Capitalism, SOAS Festival of Ideas

This intervention addresses the lifeworlds of those unwilling trans-Atlantic labourers in their homelands of Greater Senegambia—that is, the territories of today’s Senegal, the Gambia, western Mali and lower Mauritania—as well as, very briefly, in th... Read More about Economising the Gender Binary: Temporality and Displacement in Early Circum-Atlantic Racial Capitalism.

E.P. Thompson, the Railway and the Potential of Radical Care (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2020, July). E.P. Thompson, the Railway and the Potential of Radical Care. Paper presented at Race and Law in the Time of COVID-19, Centre for the study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law, SOAS University of London

Thinking like Tumbleweeds: Bodily Genres and the Vitality of Beings at Large (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S., Heathcote, G., Hamzić, V., & Jones, E. (2020, June). Thinking like Tumbleweeds: Bodily Genres and the Vitality of Beings at Large. Presented at RAI2020: Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future, SOAS University of London

Short abstract:
We invite you to think about and with tumbleweeds, but also to think like tumbleweeds. How can we include tumbleweeds to revisit the work tumbling away from the hegemonic scripts of what it means to be (non)human? We welcome papers... Read More about Thinking like Tumbleweeds: Bodily Genres and the Vitality of Beings at Large.

Worldings of "Us" and of Tumbleweeds: On Spillage and Matter in a Messy, Intersubjective Here (and Elsewhere) (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2020, June). Worldings of "Us" and of Tumbleweeds: On Spillage and Matter in a Messy, Intersubjective Here (and Elsewhere). Paper presented at Thinking Like Tumbleweeds: Bodily Genres and the Vitality of Beings at Large, RAI2020: Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future, SOAS University of London

Thinking along with tumbleweeds, this paper proposes an ontoepistemic perspective on spillages and mattering in human and non-human worldings that challenges recent resurgences, in anthropological and other social theory, of a dialectical divide betw... Read More about Worldings of "Us" and of Tumbleweeds: On Spillage and Matter in a Messy, Intersubjective Here (and Elsewhere).

Worldings that Spill and that Matter (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2020, March). Worldings that Spill and that Matter. Paper presented at Feminism and Materialism in International Relations, International Studies Association Annual Convention, Honolulu, HI, USA

Against the rise of a whole host of new takes on the primacy of the ontological in solving ostensibly epistemological questions—evidenced, for example, in certain expositions of the ontological turn in social anthropology, the speculative turn in ‘co... Read More about Worldings that Spill and that Matter.