Outputs (11)

A Cry for Madness: Governance Feminism and Neoliberal Consonance in Pakistan (2019)
Book Chapter
Hamzić, V. (2019). A Cry for Madness: Governance Feminism and Neoliberal Consonance in Pakistan. In J. Halley, P. Kotiswaran, R. Rebouché, & H. Shamir (Eds.), Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field (407-433). University of Minnesota Press. https://doi.org/10.5749/j.ctvdjrpfs.19

There has been for a while a steady flow of critical studies of the women’s movement in Pakistan—that discursive and social formation of and about women that has been memorably described by Farida Shaheed, one of its foremost representatives, as a “m... Read More about A Cry for Madness: Governance Feminism and Neoliberal Consonance in Pakistan.

Binaries, Intersected: The Trouble of Global Governance in Post-colonial Mali (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2019, October). Binaries, Intersected: The Trouble of Global Governance in Post-colonial Mali. Presented at discussion on Vasuki Nesiah’s ‘Trigger: Gender as Tool and Weapon’, Inaugural Annual Lecture on Gender Studies and Law, SOAS University of London

I could not think of a better, more engaging and more urgent way to celebrate the inception of the annual SOAS Lecture on Gender Studies and Law! What Vasuki has just given us is, indeed, a masterclass in decolonial feminist critique of the emergent,... Read More about Binaries, Intersected: The Trouble of Global Governance in Post-colonial Mali.

'On Freedom beyond the Liberal Paradigm: Reading Ratna Kapur’s Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl' (2019)
Journal Article
Hamzić, V. (2019). 'On Freedom beyond the Liberal Paradigm: Reading Ratna Kapur’s Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl'. Feminist Review, 122, 177-180. https://doi.org/10.1177/0141778919845642

Here comes, at long last, a book on human rights that clears the way for going forward outside the self-centred, self-referential and self-sufficient circle of human rights scholarship—an academic genre that, even at its most critical, always already... Read More about 'On Freedom beyond the Liberal Paradigm: Reading Ratna Kapur’s Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl'.

Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Muslim World: History, Law and Vernacular Knowledge (updated, paperback edition) (2019)
Book
Hamzić, V. (2019). Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Muslim World: History, Law and Vernacular Knowledge (updated, paperback edition). Bloomsbury. 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 (updated, paperback edition).

The Dera Paradigm: Homecoming of the Gendered Other (2019)
Journal Article
Hamzić, V. (2019). The Dera Paradigm: Homecoming of the Gendered Other. EthnoScripts, 21(1), 34-57

This article engages with the idiosyncratic dwelling practices of khwajasara, a Pakistani gender-variant subjectivity better known as hijre in the larger South Asian context. As a prevalent type of khwajasara household, the dera plays a paradigmatic... Read More about The Dera Paradigm: Homecoming of the Gendered Other.

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.

Interruption: Rethinking Circum-Atlantic Gender Variance of the Enslaved in Eighteenth-Century West Africa and Colonial Louisiana (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2019, May). Interruption: Rethinking Circum-Atlantic Gender Variance of the Enslaved in Eighteenth-Century West Africa and Colonial Louisiana. Paper presented at Roundtable Session on Critical Directions: On Gender, Law and Intersectional Subjectivities, Law and Society Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC, USA

The book project I currently work on seeks to offer 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 to colonial Louisiana. I ar... Read More about Interruption: Rethinking Circum-Atlantic Gender Variance of the Enslaved in Eighteenth-Century West Africa and Colonial Louisiana.

Arendt in New Orleans: On Violence, Power and Insurrectionary Pasts (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2019, May). Arendt in New Orleans: On Violence, Power and Insurrectionary Pasts. Paper presented at Panel on Hannah Arendt: On Violence, Power and Revolution, Law and Society Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC, USA

How does one conceive of a history, if not always already from a particular Sitz im Leben, one’s life’s present context, one’s presumed epistemic ‘reality’—so fashioned by one’s life- experience of being- and learning-in-the-world? Can there ever be... Read More about Arendt in New Orleans: On Violence, Power and Insurrectionary Pasts.

On Freedom beyond the Liberal Paradigm: Reading Ratna Kapur’s Gender, Alterity and Human Rights (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2019, May). On Freedom beyond the Liberal Paradigm: Reading Ratna Kapur’s Gender, Alterity and Human Rights. Paper presented at Author Meets Reader Session, Law and Society Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC, USA

Here comes, at long last, a book on human rights that clears the way for going forward outside the self-centred, self-referential and self-sufficient circle of human rights scholarship—an academic genre that, even at its most critical, always already... Read More about On Freedom beyond the Liberal Paradigm: Reading Ratna Kapur’s Gender, Alterity and Human Rights.

Re-Gendering the Ɲamakalaw: Empire, Personhood and Violence in Eighteenth-Century Greater Senegambia (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2019, May). Re-Gendering the Ɲamakalaw: Empire, Personhood and Violence in Eighteenth-Century Greater Senegambia. Paper presented at GenderX: Transnational and Decolonial Perspectives on and beyond the Gender Binary, Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS University of London

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 Re-Gendering the Ɲamakalaw: Empire, Personhood and Violence in Eighteenth-Century Greater Senegambia.

Towards Intricate Interruptabilities: On Knowledge Weaving in Gina Heathcote’s Feminist Dialogues on International Law (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2019, March). Towards Intricate Interruptabilities: On Knowledge Weaving in Gina Heathcote’s Feminist Dialogues on International Law. Paper presented at Feminist Methodologies in International Law, Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS University of London

Not only must we enlarge the existing international feminist epistemologies on gender law reform, we should also actively seek ways to weave into these patterns the yarns of knowledge, of critical praxis, that both do and can and do not and cannot ha... Read More about Towards Intricate Interruptabilities: On Knowledge Weaving in Gina Heathcote’s Feminist Dialogues on International Law.