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The Wordsmiths of Time: Gender Variance, Social Status and Distemporalities in “Eighteenth-Century” Greater Senegambia (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2019, August). The Wordsmiths of Time: Gender Variance, Social Status and Distemporalities in “Eighteenth-Century” Greater Senegambia. Paper presented at Panel on Distemporalities: Collisions, Insurrections and Reorientations in the Worlding of Time, On Time: The Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, Helsinki, Finland

My talk today proceeds from a chapter in a book that has now been quite long in the making, based on my critical historical and anthropological research of ‘eighteenth- century’ West African communities and subjectivities whose gender-variance, sexua... Read More about The Wordsmiths of Time: Gender Variance, Social Status and Distemporalities in “Eighteenth-Century” Greater Senegambia.

A Turn to Governance: Feminist Conundrums and Pakistan’s Neoliberal Future Past (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2019, August). A Turn to Governance: Feminist Conundrums and Pakistan’s Neoliberal Future Past. Presented at Panel on Feminist Theories and Epistemologies from the Global South, Symposium on Critical Approaches to International Law, Griffith College Dublin, Ireland

Feminist theories and epistemologies from the global south comprise a vast array of critical praxis, which has maintained a complex and often ambiguous web of relations with transnational feminist movements. On the one hand, in their attempts to dece... Read More about A Turn to Governance: Feminist Conundrums and Pakistan’s Neoliberal Future Past.

The Family as a Stronghold of State Stability: Two Contradictions in China’s Anti-Domestic Violence Efforts (2019)
Journal Article
Jiang, J. (2019). The Family as a Stronghold of State Stability: Two Contradictions in China’s Anti-Domestic Violence Efforts. International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 33(2), 228-251. https://doi.org/10.1093/lawfam/ebz004

China’s first Anti-Domestic Violence Law that took effect in March 2016 is widely praised as progress against the misuse of public power in the area of domestic violence allegations in a patriarchal society. However, empirical research points to the... Read More about The Family as a Stronghold of State Stability: Two Contradictions in China’s Anti-Domestic Violence Efforts.

What do we know about the implementations of equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace? (2019)
Book Chapter
Scott-Baumann, A., Gibbs, P., Elwick, A., & Maguire, K. What do we know about the implementations of equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace?. In P. Gibbs, F. Bartels-Ellis, & M. F. Özbilgin (Eds.), Global Diversity Management: A Fusion of Ideas, Stories and Practice (11-23). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19523-6

This short literature review considers the academic literature that nests diversity management within an international context. It covers the issues in a general way before foregrounding the literature in diversity management and how this might be im... Read More about What do we know about the implementations of equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace?.

Foreword (2019)
Book Chapter
Menski, W. F. (2019). Foreword. In A. Rankin (Ed.), Jainism and Environmental Philosophy: Karma and the Web of Life (x-xi). Routledge

Medical Patents and the Right to Health – From Monopoly Control to Open Access Innovation and Provision of Medicines (2019)
Journal Article
Cullet, P. (2019). Medical Patents and the Right to Health – From Monopoly Control to Open Access Innovation and Provision of Medicines. Jahrbuch für internationales Recht, 61, 153-182. https://doi.org/10.3790/gyil.61.1.153

The coming into force of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) in the mid-1990s led to a massive strengthening of intellectual property rights in the global South. This was particularly controversial concernin... Read More about Medical Patents and the Right to Health – From Monopoly Control to Open Access Innovation and Provision of Medicines.

Reconciling Impact and Ethics: An Ethnography of Research in Violent Online Political Extremism (2019)
Book
Mahlouly, D. (2019). Reconciling Impact and Ethics: An Ethnography of Research in Violent Online Political Extremism. VOX-Pol Network of Excellence

Gathering empirical evidence from interviews and focus groups, this study highlights some of the ethical dilemmas face d by the academic community tasked with developing new methodological tools and conceptual frameworks for the study of violent onli... Read More about Reconciling Impact and Ethics: An Ethnography of Research in Violent Online Political Extremism.

Understanding the Trajectory of the Academic Progress of International Students in the UK (2019)
Journal Article
Adisa, T., Baderin, M. A., Gbadamosi, G., & Mordi, C. (2019). Understanding the Trajectory of the Academic Progress of International Students in the UK. Education + Training, 61(9), 1100-1122. https://doi.org/10.1108/ET-08-2018-0177

PURPOSE:
The UK is a popular educational hub for international students from different parts of the world. These students often face different transitional challenges, which have a significant impact on the success or failure of their studies. The... Read More about Understanding the Trajectory of the Academic Progress of International Students in the UK.

The slow erosion of fundamental rights: How Romila Thapar v. Union of India highlights what is wrong with the UAPA (2019)
Journal Article
Suresh, M. (2019). The slow erosion of fundamental rights: How Romila Thapar v. Union of India highlights what is wrong with the UAPA. Indian Law Review, 3(2), 212-223. https://doi.org/10.1080/24730580.2019.1640593

This case note uses the recent Supreme Court decision of Romila Thapar v. Union of India to highlight how the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act slowly erodes fundamental rights. It argues that Romila Thapar shows how the police and prosecution use... Read More about The slow erosion of fundamental rights: How Romila Thapar v. Union of India highlights what is wrong with the UAPA.

Reimagining the Framework for Resolving Intra-African Commercial Disputes in the Context of the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (2019)
Journal Article
Onyema, E. (2020). Reimagining the Framework for Resolving Intra-African Commercial Disputes in the Context of the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement. World Trade Review, 19(3), 446-468. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474745619000132

This article examines the effectiveness of the framework for the resolution of intra-African cross-border commercial disputes, arising from the projected increase in intra-African trade in goods, services, and investments under the African Continenta... Read More about Reimagining the Framework for Resolving Intra-African Commercial Disputes in the Context of the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement.

Hindu Law in Modern Times: How Hindu Law Continues in Modern India (2019)
Book Chapter
Menski, W. F. (2019). Hindu Law in Modern Times: How Hindu Law Continues in Modern India. In T. Brekke (Ed.), The Oxford History of Hinduism: Modern Hinduism (244-260). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198790839.003.0014

Covering the colonial period and modern India, this examination of the complex relationship between law and religion focuses on the impacts of state legal regulation of Hindu law in India. A key question in this chapter is to what extent colonial and... Read More about Hindu Law in Modern Times: How Hindu Law Continues in Modern India.

Love, Lebanese Style: Towards an either/and analytical framework of kinship (2019)
Journal Article
Allouche, S. (2019). Love, Lebanese Style: Towards an either/and analytical framework of kinship. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, 15(2), 157-178. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7490953

My article draws on a yearlong fieldwork conducted in Lebanon and builds on the existing literature on love and marriage in the Arab world in order to reiterate the unison of the imaginary with the material when thinking through romantic love. In add... Read More about Love, Lebanese Style: Towards an either/and analytical framework of kinship.

Arab Constitutionalism and the Formalism of Authoritarian Constitutionalism (2019)
Book Chapter
Sultany, N. (2019). Arab Constitutionalism and the Formalism of Authoritarian Constitutionalism. In H. Alvar Garcia, & G. Frankenberg (Eds.), Authoritarian Constitutionalism: Comparative Analysis and Critique (292-316). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788117852.00018

This chapter challenges different manifestations of a ‘formalist’ approach to constitutional theory. The formalist approach deploys several labels and distinctions (constitutions without constitutionalism, authoritarian, ideological, instrumentalist... Read More about Arab Constitutionalism and the Formalism of Authoritarian Constitutionalism.

Extreme Speech and Global Digital Cultures — Introduction (2019)
Journal Article
Udupa, S., & Pohjonen, M. (2019). Extreme Speech and Global Digital Cultures — Introduction. International Journal of Communication, 13, 3049-3067

In this article, we introduce the Special Section on Extreme Speech and Global Digital Cultures by developing the concept of “extreme speech.” In addressing the growing cultures of online vitriol and extremism, this concept advances a critical ethnog... Read More about Extreme Speech and Global Digital Cultures — Introduction.

The Impact of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women in Select African States (2019)
Journal Article
Banda, F. (2019). The Impact of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women in Select African States. International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 33(2), 252-275. https://doi.org/10.1093/lawfam/ebz006

While the UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is seen to be an African success story, in order to obtain some sense of the impact of CEDAW in African legal systems, this article considers cases in whi... Read More about The Impact of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women in Select African States.