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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).

Hydrous Bodies, Fluid Domains: Thinking Gender beyond the Human (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S., & Heathcote, G. (2020, March). Hydrous Bodies, Fluid Domains: Thinking Gender beyond the Human. Paper presented at 61st Annual ISA Convention (Panel: Feminism and Materialism in Internaonal Relations), Honolulu, Hawaii

How might water matter in accounts of human and non-human relations? Drawing in material from the ontological turn in anthropology, including complex encounters with the ocean, glaciers and rivers, alongside indigenous and legal non-human subjectivit... Read More about Hydrous Bodies, Fluid Domains: Thinking Gender beyond the Human.

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.

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.

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.

Decolonising aetiologies and theories of IPV in public health scholarship and practice: Insights from an ethnographic study of conjugal abuse from an Ethiopian Orthodox Täwahәdo community (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Istratii, R. (2019, June). Decolonising aetiologies and theories of IPV in public health scholarship and practice: Insights from an ethnographic study of conjugal abuse from an Ethiopian Orthodox Täwahәdo community. Paper presented at Development Studies Association Conference 2019, ‘Opening up Development’, The Open University, Milton Keynes

Intimate partner violence (IPV) has comprised one of the priority areas of public health research and practice, especially in relation to African development. However, this scholarship and practice has been dominated by gender-based violence (GBV) ae... Read More about Decolonising aetiologies and theories of IPV in public health scholarship and practice: Insights from an ethnographic study of conjugal abuse from an Ethiopian Orthodox Täwahәdo community.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bodies that Border that Line (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2018, June). Bodies that Border that Line. Presented at 'Queer' Asia 2018 Keynote Panel, 'Queer' Asia Conference, SOAS University of London, London, UK

There is something about human body that defies borders; not only is one’s body unthinkable outside of its immediate environment—be that environment construed out of bodies of others, of certain human or even non-human shared corporeality, or of a sp... Read More about Bodies that Border that Line.

The Abyss (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2017, October). The Abyss. Presented at International Human Rights and Freedom: Possibilities, Epistemologies, Legacies and Alternatives, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

How might one think limits of one’s disciplinary world in a productive way, that is, with a view not to end up with yet another, even if more expansive, disciplinary cogito but rather, if you will, an epistemic abyss that opens to more radical imagin... Read More about The Abyss.

‘International Law as Violence: Competing Absences of the Other’ (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2016, January). ‘International Law as Violence: Competing Absences of the Other’. Paper presented at Queer Perspectives on Law III: Queering the International: Internationalising the Queer, Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS, University of London

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.